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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Leading AI Teams: What Is Different
Leading AI-powered engineering teams requires a fundamentally different approach than leading traditional cloud infrastructure teams
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
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
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
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: 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
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
Building LokiMCPUniverse: Enterprise MCP Servers at Scale
Launching LokiMCPUniverse, a collection of enterprise-grade MCP servers that give AI agents access to real tools and infrastructure
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
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
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
2024: The Year AI Agents Take Over
Why 2024 will be the year AI agents move from research demos to production workflow automation