Why the Stochastic Parrot Still Bites
Imagine two men on a train -- or perhaps just walking; the memory varies -- one is Piero Sraffa and deep in conversation he flips off Ludwig Wittgenstein,...
The Car Wash Test: Learning from Model Evals
The question is: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" Is it common sense? Is it a trick question? Will the models...
The Agent Habitat
An agent isn't just automation with LLM calls. It carries state, accumulates memory, and makes bounded decisions under uncertainty — and a git repo is where...
I Replaced My Back Office with 6 Commands
The data is already there. Your project activity is in GitHub commits. Client conversations are in Gmail threads. Meeting decisions are in Granola...
The Data Flywheel Pattern
Claude Code -- and the others like Gemini CLI or Codex or Cursor -- is way more than vibe-coding. There's a new style of application or systems that I've...
Claude Code, not Code
Here's what I've used Claude Code for this month: Pulled down emails and extracted key information from them Researched candidates for a job posting, ranked...
How I Use AI in Jan 2026
This is what it feels like to live in The Singularity. The amount of change and discovering for what AI can do is staggering, and what was cutting edge on...
Build your own Coding Agent
Get Bash-Pilled At the AI Engineering Summit, Nik Pash, creator of Cline, dropped a bomb: "Terminus still beats everything with one tool design." No clever...
"You're absolutely right" and other AI warning signs
AI can be very useful thought partners, but they aren't especially great thinkers especially when their context window fills up. How do you know you've gone...
AI tools fail loudly where humans failed quietly
The client was going through due diligence for a potential deal and one of the points that came up was that their technology was a bit long in the tooth....
I'm back: AI Engineering Summit 2025: Bash-Pilled and Building for Everyone
The last post I wrote was being staggered by GPT-5 back in September, basically an eon ago in AI time and now we're all staggered by how smart Opus 4.5 is....
GPT-5 feels smarter than me
GPT-5 feels smarter than me I've been pretty excited about how GPT-OSS is working and have a few good posts lined up about that. But let's talk about GPT-5...
Two Game-Changing MCPs for AI Development
Two Game-Changing MCPs for AI Development Hey there! 👋 I've been diving deep into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem lately, and I want to share two...
Two Game-Changing MCPs for AI Development
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Two Game-Changing MCPs for AI Development
Hey there! 👋 I've been diving deep into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem lately, and I want to share two tools that are absolutely transforming how...
Local AI Models Are Surprisingly Good at Code Generation
I had an unexpected discovery recently that I wanted to share with you. I needed a small script to help anonymize some test data. Nothing fancy, but on my...
Unlocking Agent Power: Dagger and Container Use
Hi friends, Ever wished you could run multiple coding agents in parallel, each with their own perfectly-tuned environment? In my latest post, I dive into how...
Technical Debt and the ROI Threshold: Why Code is Getting Cheaper
Hi Focus AI Community, Today’s essay explores how the falling cost of coding—thanks to automation and AI agents—reshapes our approach to technical debt and...
Use Cursor in Slack: Seamless Code Collaboration
Hi Focus AI Community, We're excited to share a quick guide on integrating Cursor with Slack to streamline your code agents and collaboration work flow! How...
Don't Be Passive Aggressive With Your Agents (and Coding Agent Report Link)
Treat your coding agents as adaptable collaborators—communicate clearly, value efficiency over endurance, match tools to your workflow, skip unnecessary...
