IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
35 articles
05 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Anthropic shipped a beta that lets you add or remove tools mid-conversation without invalidating the prompt cache. Why that matters for long-running agents, and what I changed in my own agent's tool-loading logic after reading the spec.
Read more05 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
agentic coding
Cursor shipped Origin — a waitlist-only Git forge that lets cloud agents push code without ever touching GitHub. A technical lead's read on what it means when 35% of merged PRs are already agent-authored.
Read more04 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
OpenCode, the open-source terminal coding agent, grew past 170,000 GitHub stars by staying model-agnostic and monetizing through Zen, a zero-markup inference gateway. A Tech Lead's breakdown of the bring-your-own-model economics and when it actually beats a single-vendor coding agent subscription.
Read more03 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
McKinsey's State of AI 2026 survey found a third of organizations skipped a software purchase because agentic coding could build it in-house — but the share reporting real EBIT impact from AI didn't move. What that gap actually means for a build-vs-buy call, from someone who's made a few of them this year.
Read more02 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Coder's new Agent Relay lets Cursor's cloud agents execute inside a customer's own network, with SpaceXAI as launch partner. A look at what this self-hosted execution pattern actually solves, and what it doesn't.
Read more28 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agentic coding
Meta shipped Muse Code on Aug 5-6, 2026 — a terminal coding agent with persistent background agents and a $0.10/1M contributor tier. It loses on every benchmark it publishes. Here's why a tech lead should still care.
Read more27 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
agentic coding
SpaceXAI's Think Fast 2.0 merges speech recognition, reasoning, and synthesis into a single speech-to-speech model over one WebSocket. I built a customer-support voice agent against it and pulled out the production best practices that actually matter: timing, interruption, resumption, and security.
Read more22 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
agentic coding
Rachel Laycock's framing from martinfowler.com reduces the whole agentic-software governance problem to one sentence: organisations don't run on code, they run on trust. Here's how to turn that into five concrete guardrails, and why my own overnight-task workflow is a working example of the pattern.
Read more22 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Anthropic moved computer use, a new browser-use tool, the Skills API, and the Files API to general availability on August 20, 2026. A Technical Lead's read on what's now buildable in production that wasn't three months ago, with an illustrative code walkthrough.
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