2026
- From Robot Soccer to the Agentic World Cup: Why Games Move AI Forward
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video: a narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: Twenty years ago, a year-long university project group I was part of built a team of soccer-playing cube robots …
- MCP Strategies on AWS, Part 2: Tool Design in Code
TL;DR: The AWS Prescriptive Guidance paper on MCP gives the most useful, checkable rules in its tool-design section, so I wrote code to test them. A token-tax counter on a realistic 20-tool GitHub …
- Welcome to the Family: I Sat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus Down on Bedrock
TL;DR: OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex went GA on Amazon Bedrock on June 1, 2026. To get a feel for it, I wired up two Strands agents, Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and let them chat, with Opus …
- 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 …