The Missing Ingredient in Loop Engineering: Observability
Everyone's talking about loop engineering: automations, worktrees, sub-agents. They all skip the ingredient that makes letting agents run for days safely: observability.
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The Claude Code Source Leak Revealed More About Us Than Anthropic
Anthropic's entire Claude Code source leaked via npm source maps, and I argue they should open-source it. Meanwhile, the industry's cries of entitlement to horror at "AI slop" under the hood reveal more about our perceptions of crafting software than they do about Anthropic's engineering practices.
Why I Formed My New Consultancy, Limbic Systems
Last year, I helped a boutique consulting agency save 20+ hours per project and fundamentally change how they sell. I realized our approach and nearly everything we built over that 9-month period could help any service business become AI-native.
The Reports of MCP's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
Perplexity CTO says they dropped MCP for "traditional" APIs and CLIs, and many claim to be following suit. Meanwhile, the protocol surpassed 97M monthly SDK downloads, over 17,000+ registered servers, and wide adoption from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and AWS. One of these narratives is wrong.