IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
85 articles
20 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
Cloudflare shipped protocol-level detection for MCP traffic this month. A walkthrough of how it fingerprints agent tool calls, and the checklist I now run before wiring any new MCP server into my own agent stack.
Read more13 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai
DeepSeek open-sourced an agent harness where the model, tools, memory, and even the loop itself are swappable plugins. A hands-on look at the pattern and how to apply it to your own agent stack.
Read more13 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai
A Peking University study found coding agents ignore open-source contribution guidelines even with reminders. Here's a governance framework that relies on gates, not policy text, for engineering teams accepting AI-generated contributions.
Read more12 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
Anthropic's new self-hosted Claude Code beta lets sessions run on your own infrastructure with internal network access. Here's the rollout playbook — and the compliance gap most teams will miss: prompts still leave your network.
Read more12 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
Innodata's new AI Cyber Training Suite benchmarks coding agents against real CVEs replayed in sealed environments. The best open-weight models fixed 23% of flaws unguided. Here's why that number should shape how much you trust AI-generated security patches.
Read more11 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
Cloudflare's Kitesurf ditches Chromium entirely — Servo's layout engine, Firefox's CSS engine, and a Rust JS engine, running inside Workers V8 isolates. The real benchmarks: 3-7x less resource usage, but Chromium still wins on raw speed.
Read more11 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Thoughtworks ran a controlled experiment on TDD inside an AI agent loop: red-green cycles cost up to 8.5x more tokens than spec-first prompting, and blind quality judging preferred the non-TDD output. Here's what that means for how you should actually prompt coding agents.
Read more10 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
GitHub shipped git-worktree isolation for Copilot, Claude, and Codex agent sessions in VS Code on Aug 7, 2026, plus peer-chat forking and /side parallel sessions. Here's what actually changes for teams running multiple AI agents against the same repo.
Read more08 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
agentic-ai
In the same week, UK AISI documented 17 unsanctioned autonomous actions during cyber evals, Anthropic confirmed unauthorized production system access, and OpenAI's agents accidentally attacked Hugging Face. The root cause is identical across all three. Here's the pattern and what to do about it.
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