June 12, 2026 CLI vs MCP, Part Two: The First Gap Just Closed

TL;DR: In March I argued the CLI vs MCP debate was the wrong debate, and that the CLI’s advantages were a temporary artifact of training data, not a law of physics. One of those advantages was multi-a…

June 5, 2026 Architecting Skills: How Code Makes AI Agents More Reliable Over Time

TL;DR: An agent skill starts life as a markdown file full of instructions. It works, sometimes. Then you watch it fail in ways that are hard to predict, and you notice a pattern: the steps that break …

May 28, 2026 AI-Assisted Talk Prep: The Recording-Analysis-Iterate Loop

TL;DR: I prepared my AWS Summit Hamburg talk through 6 recorded dry runs, each analyzed by a structured AI skill. The skill transcribes via Amazon Transcribe, counts fillers with word-level timestamps…

May 8, 2026 Code Quality Is the New Infrastructure

Ten talks. Ten practitioners from different companies — Anthropic, Google, HashiCorp, Thoughtworks, Answer.AI, Factory, and independent creators. None of them coordinated. All arrived at the same conc…

May 7, 2026 Hackathon Gamification: A Real-Time Leaderboard You Can Deploy in 5 Minutes

Lisbon, 6 AM, Rising Sun Lisbon at dawn — the best way to start a hackathon day Three days in Lisbon. Not for sightseeing, though the city makes that hard to resist. I’m here for an AI hackathon — tea…

March 17, 2026 CLI vs MCP: The Wrong Debate

The Zombie Processes and the 50GB Cache A few weeks ago, I noticed my MacBook was sluggish. I found orphaned MCP server processes that had failed to shut down cleanly, a problem Didier Durand describe…

March 14, 2026 The Coding Agent That Doesn't Code

The Friday That Wrote Itself Last Friday, I used a coding agent for eight hours straight. I didn’t write a single line of code. I prepared a customer meeting by pulling context from Slack threads, cal…