The Reference I Almost Didnāt 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 ā¦
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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 publicā¦
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 thatā¦
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 proā¦
The Kofferklausur, Revisited In September 2024, a colleague asked an audience: āWhat is RAG?ā I answered: Kofferklausur [1]. For non-German speakers: a Kofferklausur is an open-book exam. You bring yoā¦
The Invisible Error To test this, I designed five calculations that anyone in business might ask an AI assistant, the kind of questions youād type into ChatGPT or Claude expecting a quick, reliable anā¦
$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 reaā¦
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 singlā¦
The Test That Failed Last weekend, I pointed an AI agent at my own blog and asked it a simple question about an article Iād just published, my hands-on experiment with self-reflection on Amazon Bedrocā¦
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-reā¦