2026

The Citation Crisis: What AI Hallucinations Mean for Your Enterprise

The Reference I Almost Didn’t Check A few days ago, I was reviewing an article my AI agent had drafted. The sources section looked clean: numbered references, proper formatting, plausible titles. One …

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From Cloud-Native to AI-Native: What Actually Changes

The Fifteen-Year Echo Fifteen years apart. Same stage. Different world. In 2010, Adrian Cockcroft stood on the QCon stage and told the audience that Netflix was running its entire business on a public…

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The Protocol We Should Have Built for Humans

Namaste from 6,165 Meters I just summited Imja Tse (Island Peak, 6,165 meters) in Nepal. No Slack, no email, no MCP servers crashing in the background. Just ice, thin air, and the kind of clarity that…

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Building Agents That Read the Web Right

The Other Side of the Coin In a recent article, I made my website AI-agent friendly [1], adding llms.txt, Markdown output, and content negotiation to a Hugo site on AWS. That article was about the pro…

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Is RAG Still Needed with 1M+ Token Context Windows?

The Kofferklausur, Revisited In September 2024, a colleague asked an audience: ā€œWhat is RAG?ā€ I answered: Kofferklausur [1]. For non-German speakers: a Kofferklausur is an open-book exam. You bring yo…

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LLMs Don't Do Math — They Predict What Math Looks Like

The Invisible Error To test this, I designed five calculations that anyone in business might ask an AI assistant, the kind of questions you’d type into ChatGPT or Claude expecting a quick, reliable an…

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Security Is Job Zero — Even (Especially) in the Age of Coding Agents

$20 and Two Hours On February 28, 2026, security startup CodeWall gave an autonomous AI agent a single input: a domain name. Two hours and approximately $20 in API tokens later, the agent had full rea…

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AI Coding Productivity: 10%, Not 10x

The Number Nobody Wants to Hear A few weeks ago, I wrote about running my entire workday through an AI agent [1], meetings, research, CRM, content creation. Eight hours of productive work, not a singl…

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Making My Website AI-Agent Friendly — Here's What Changed

The Test That Failed Last weekend, I pointed an AI agent at my own blog and asked it a simple question about an article I’d just published, my hands-on experiment with self-reflection on Amazon Bedroc…

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When Thinking Twice Helps — And When It Doesn't

The Saturday Morning Experiment Last Saturday, I installed a Python library, pointed it at Amazon Bedrock, and asked a model the same questions three times, with zero, one, and three rounds of self-re…

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