A diagram that has been laid out is just data: boxes with sizes, lines with routes, colours that mean something. Nothing about that requires the code that drew it to be the code that displays it. …
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 …
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 …
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 …