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SMART Backend Services for AI Agents: system/ Scopes Are God Mode

October 23, 2026•9 min read

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SMART Backend Services for AI Agents: system/ Scopes Are God Mode

SMART Backend Services gives an AI agent every patient the client policy allows. Borrow a clinician's token instead, and trace chart reads to a model run.

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Your Support Team Is Claude Code on a Timer

August 24, 2026·7 min read

Your Support Team Is Claude Code on a Timer

An L2 support engineer that's just Claude Code on a /loop, with all its state living in Slack reactions. No app, no database, no deploy — and it only pings you when it's real.

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Penpal: Dispatch Tool Today, RPG Interface Tomorrow

May 7, 2026·7 min read

Penpal: Dispatch Tool Today, RPG Interface Tomorrow

I built a tool that turns GitHub issues into pull requests using a three-agent pipeline. That's the boring part. The interesting part is what happens when you stop thinking about AI agents as productivity tools and start thinking about them as a workforce, and build a world for them to live in.

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Table Stakes for Pragmatic Development Using LLMs

March 30, 2026·8 min read

Table Stakes for Pragmatic Development Using LLMs

Updated for 2026: lessons from two years using Claude Code in production. Context engineering, real eval frameworks, model economics, and agent workflows. What works.

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Context Engineering: The Skill That Replaced Prompt Engineering

November 4, 2025·7 min read

Context Engineering: The Skill That Replaced Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is a symptom, not a skill. The engineers shipping better agents aren't writing better instructions. They're designing better information spaces. Context engineering is the meta-skill no one teaches.

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Every Service Is Going to Need an MCP Layer

October 17, 2025•8 min read

Every Service Is Going to Need an MCP Layer

REST APIs were designed for humans calling services through UIs. AI agents are not humans. What breaks when you expose your existing APIs to agents, and what the right architecture looks like.

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What AI Agents Actually Are (And What They Can't Do Yet)

November 23, 2023·6 min read

What AI Agents Actually Are (And What They Can't Do Yet)

Everyone's building 'agents.' Most are just APIs with a system prompt. The precise definition, the components that matter, the failure modes I've hit, and how to pick the right pattern for your problem.

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