Agents are very good at writing files. So when a tool’s input is a file, an MCP server in front of it starts out with a problem: the agent can already do the job without it. The server has to earn its …
Every tool I build for myself needs the same last mile: binaries for my machines, a Homebrew formula, something bx can run. That’s the same work each time, and I kept writing it again for each tool. …
Every time you ask someone to tell your tool something it could have found out, you’ve created a second copy of a fact. Second copies drift. In an agent’s toolchain there are a lot of facts, and until …
This is a short release note, not an argument. If you use IntelliJ, RustRover, GoLand or WebStorm and you’ve been curious about forge, this is the release that gives you a preview pane. forge is a …
Every email in your inbox was written by someone else, and most of them were written by someone you’ve never met. Hand that inbox to a model and you’ve handed it several hundred prompts from …
A cron line looks like a latency setting. 0 * * * * reads as “check every hour, so nothing waits long.” In a private repository it’s also a purchase order, and it reorders every hour whether or not …
A tool that says “I don’t know” is annoying. A tool that guesses, and returns the guess in the same shape and the same confident tone as a fact, is worse than useless — because the thing reading it is …
Configuration is the tax you pay for not knowing who your user is. It has always been priced into the cost of building software, so we stopped noticing it was there. Build something for exactly one …
An agent decides it is done when the checks it can run come back green. Every one of those checks is a question about the repository it is standing in. The team that generates a client from your …
Types made “this value is a string” checkable. Tests made behaviour checkable. Nothing ever made “the API layer must not talk to the data layer” checkable — cheaply, across every language in the …