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MCP Apps: keeping review and approval in the conversation
The agent prepares the work; the product supplies the view and controls for people to review, edit and approve it inside their assistant.
Notes from the work
Thinking out loud. Carefully.
Practical notes on software, teams, and AI. The decisions, tradeoffs, and questions that are worth more than a quick answer.
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When AI-written RFPs inflate the scope
AI on both sides of procurement can turn suggestions into requirements. Quality discovery gives vendors a meaningful project and budget to price.
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ArchitectureLinkedIn post
Software risk changes even when code does not
I'm for sure going to post some stuff from #AllThingsOpen this week, but that got sideswiped yesterday/today for news from... PHP? That wasn't on my bingo card.
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Events & reflectionsLinkedIn post
All Things Open: day two
#AllThingsOpen day 2! Come stop by, second floor next to ballroom A.
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Events & reflectionsLinkedIn post
Speaking at All Things Open
I am super excited to be speaking at All Things Open Conference in Raleigh next Tuesday, October 20, about building products for people who use them through AI agents.
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Engineering leadershipLinkedIn post
Your test strategy determines your speed limit
I've never played Go. I've played enough chess to appreciate its complexity, but Go is orders of magnitude more complex by possible positions. More than the number of atoms in the universe.
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ArchitectureLinkedIn post
Why should your product still exist?
“As agents get more capable, why should your product still exist?”
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Events & reflectionsLinkedIn commentary
A drumline at The AI Conference
Something about a Drumline always gets me pumped up. Really enjoyed this!
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Applied AILinkedIn post
Buttery: an agent as the application interface
Conferences Hack Day, a one-day hackathon to take an idea through to a working demo. We were encouraged to build with the sponsors tools.
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Incentives, AI, and the people whose work changes
This gif brings me so much joy. It feels like the way I might have played a video game when I was a kid.
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Trying a smaller model for code review
Last night, Dave Sifry’ gave an Ignite talk and made a good case for trying a modest model for AI code review.
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Engineering leadershipLinkedIn post
Agent traces, visibility, and delivery cost
I did promise to keep you posted from The AI Conference. There's a ton of topic areas here, but naturally I'm drawn to those around software development.
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Events & reflectionsLinkedIn post
The AI Conference: day two
The AI Conference day 2 (3?)! Let’s get it.
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Events & reflectionsLinkedIn post
Learning at The AI Conference
Out here learning everything I can about AI so you don’t have to. Lots of great insights to share, stay tuned!
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Applied AILinkedIn commentary
AI for coral restoration
This is one of the most exciting things I’ve been able to be a part of in my career, and I’m so excited to see it featured.
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Applied AILinkedIn post
Fine-tuning small models for useful intent classification
Fine-tuned Small Language Models are the absolute backbone of an efficient AI-automation paradigm.
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Applied AILinkedIn post
Browser agents make the capability tangible
Anthropic quietly added what I think is a transformational capability to Cowork: a built-in browser.
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ArchitectureLinkedIn post
Using software without learning its interface
I use HubSpot every day, but I have no idea how to navigate HubSpot. I’m probably not going to learn.
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ArchitectureLinkedIn post
The backup plan belongs in the design
About a month ago, I refactored the agent network for a project I’m working on. Every agent file got a model assignment appropriate to its job, mostly Sonnet and Opus. Fable could orchestrate, but I did not want it dragging every…
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Engineering leadershipLinkedIn post
Base camp gets higher, but the mountain is still there
Better tools are changing who can start the job, but expertise is still needed to finish the job.
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Engineering leadershipLinkedIn post
Curiosity belongs in the AI-first SDLC
Ted Lasso made this alleged Walt Whitman quote famous. "Be curious, not Judgmental."
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AI literacy needs shared practices
One of the things that stuck with me from the recent All Things Open Conference meetup wasn’t one of the slides. It was the little outdoor space at The Barn: a few chairs arranged around a hearth.
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Engineering leadershipLinkedIn commentary
When the right answer is a handoff
Mostly agree. But sometimes the most efficient thing to do is hand this off to someone else/ their agents. Sometimes my developers get instructions about the infrastructure or devops pipelines they don’t have the context / can’t digest.…
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Applied AILinkedIn post
Not every workflow needs a pit crew
Not every workflow needs a pit crew. Sometimes jobs are a routine process - like getting the paper tray refilled.
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Events & reflectionsLinkedIn post
Build an Agent in a Day
It’s easy to get buried in the day-to-day and forget to look up once in a while.
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ArchitectureLinkedIn post
Security is a discipline
Spending the day at The Official Cybersecurity Summit.
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Events & reflectionsLinkedIn post
An AI conversation with Apex business owners
Kicked off the morning at Apex Intelligence — a new Apex Chamber connection circle focused on AI for small businesses, hosted by my friend Paul Trent.
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Engineering leadershipLinkedIn post
The hard parts of software are trust and operations
Still seeing devs post “AI can’t even count fingers / write regex” memes. That’s not skepticism. It’s denial.
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ArchitectureLinkedIn post
Can your product be used by an agent?
OpenClaw is blowing up the internet right now — and not because it’s polished. It’s chaotic, exploitable, wide‑open, and somehow still the clearest signal of where software is going next.
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Staying current is the advantage
Being early in AI isn’t the moat you think it is.
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Engineering leadershipLinkedIn post
Noise is cheap. Signal is earned.
In a world full of new tools and louder headlines, time is our scarcest resource. Every week a new platform promises to fix everything. Most of us don’t have the space to evaluate them all, and the signal gets buried in the noise.
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Practical AI for small and midsize businesses
AI isn’t just for the tech giants anymore—it’s delivering real, measurable value for small and midsize businesses, too.
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ArchitectureLinkedIn commentary
How much cloud scale do you need?
How much scale will your cloud architecture support, and how much do you need?
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