Technical Leaders Must Build: Why AI Leadership Requires Hands on Keyboards
If you lead engineering teams and you are not building with AI tools yourself, you are making decisions based on other people's understanding
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- ai
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2024: The Year AI Agents Became Real
Looking back on 2024, the year AI agents went from predictions to production and everything I shipped along the way
- ai
- agents
- personal
From Zero to Global Adoption: Open Source Virality
How an enterprise MCP server collection went from a personal project to globally adopted open source infrastructure
- open-source
- career
re:Invent 2024: AWS Goes Agent-First
AWS re:Invent 2024 signals a fundamental shift: Amazon is rebuilding its cloud platform around AI agents as first-class citizens
- cloud
- ai
Loki Mode is Born: Building a Multi-Agent Autonomous System
Introducing Loki Mode, a multi-agent autonomous system for Claude Code with 41 agent types across 8 swarms
- ai
- agents
- mcp
- open-source
The 2024 Election and the AI Misinformation Challenge
The 2024 US presidential election tested our ability to handle AI-generated misinformation, and the results are sobering
- ai
- personal
Claude Computer Use: AI That Operates Your Computer
Anthropic's Claude computer use capability lets AI control your screen, keyboard, and mouse, and the implications for agent systems are enormous
- ai
- agents
Leading AI Teams: What Is Different
Leading AI-powered engineering teams requires a fundamentally different approach than leading traditional cloud infrastructure teams
- leadership
- ai
OpenAI o1: Chain of Thought Changes Everything
OpenAI's o1 model introduces a new paradigm: models that think before they answer, with profound implications for AI agent systems
- ai
A2A: When AI Agents Talk to Each Other
Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol opens a new frontier: AI agents that can discover, communicate with, and delegate to other agents
- agents
- ai
AI Marketplaces: The Next Platform War
MCP marketplaces are emerging as the next platform battleground, and the winner will define how AI agents access the world
- mcp
- ai
25 Enterprise MCP Servers in One Sprint
How I built 25+ production-grade MCP servers and what I learned about shipping AI infrastructure at speed
- mcp
- agents
MCP: The Protocol That Connects AI to Everything
A deep dive into the Model Context Protocol and why it is the most important infrastructure standard for the AI agent era
- mcp
- ai
Google I/O 2024: Gemini Everywhere
Google I/O 2024 made one thing clear: Google is embedding Gemini into every product, every surface, every interaction
- ai
Building LokiMCPUniverse: Enterprise MCP Servers at Scale
Deprecated projectLaunching LokiMCPUniverse, a collection of enterprise-grade MCP servers that give AI agents access to real tools and infrastructure
- mcp
- ai
- agents
NVIDIA GTC: Jensen Huang and the $2 Trillion AI Engine
NVIDIA GTC 2024 was not just a product launch; it was a declaration that GPU infrastructure is the foundation of the AI era
- ai
Claude 3 Opus: The Best LLM I Have Ever Used
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus is not just an incremental improvement; it changes what is possible with AI-assisted engineering
- ai
Sora: OpenAI Just Changed Video Forever
OpenAI's Sora text-to-video model represents a paradigm shift in content creation and raises profound questions about reality
- ai
2024: The Year AI Agents Take Over
Why 2024 will be the year AI agents move from research demos to production workflow automation
- ai
- agents
2023: The Year LLMs Ate the World
Looking back on a year that transformed AI from a research curiosity into a force reshaping every industry
- ai
- personal
Mixtral 8x7B and the Rise of Mixture of Experts
Mistral AI's Mixtral model demonstrates that mixture of experts architectures can deliver frontier-class performance efficiently
- ai
Google Gemini: DeepMind's Multimodal Answer to GPT-4
Google launches Gemini, its most capable AI model, built from the ground up for multimodal reasoning
- ai
re:Invent 2023: Amazon Bedrock and the Enterprise GenAI Stack
AWS re:Invent 2023 puts generative AI at the center of Amazon's cloud strategy with Bedrock and new services
- cloud
- ai
The OpenAI Board Crisis: Five Days That Shook AI
Sam Altman's firing and rehiring at OpenAI exposes the tensions at the heart of AI development
- ai