TAI #226: The AI Model Race Needs Better Tests
Also, Meta’s Muse Wonder, Claude Haiku 5.5, OpenAI’s Ultrafast tier, Mistral Large 4, Reflection Beam, and new rivals to Jev.
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What to Teach When AI Becomes the Compiler
Natural language is collapsing the expertise required to operate professional computing engines, but it does not collapse the expertise required to warrant their results. Education therefore has to move from teaching operation alone toward teaching specification, verification, and recovery.
Towards AI6 min readClaude Haiku 5.5 Earned a Spot in My Real-World Workflows
Last week I was staring at my AI usage, wondering if $4 was too much to pay to complete my project. Cost-avoidance is a feature and flaw of my personality, and it’s made Anthropic a recurring thorn in my side.
Towards AI11 min readZero Trust Architecture for MCP
[Playbook] Zero Trust Architecture for MCP An engineering blueprint for implementing On-Behalf-Of OAuth 2.1 and SPIFFE workload identity. Cover visual featuring a physical Causal Interaction studio …
Towards AI10 min readMicrosoft Just Shipped an AI Agent Feature Whose Entire Job Is Not Trusting the Agent
Microsoft Just Shipped an AI Agent Feature Whose Entire Job Is Not Trusting the Agent Copilot Studio’s new “Hooks” are a quiet admission that agent judgment cannot be trusted with anything that …
Towards AI7 min read10 Free Claude Code Plugins Worth Installing Right Now
A working engineer’s tour of the official marketplace: what each plugin actually does, what it won’t do and the order to install them inContinue reading on Towards AI »
Towards AI1 min readWe Connected a WordPress Site to AI Agents Through MCP. Here’s What We Had to Fix
More than 40% of all websites run on WordPress, according to W3Techs [1]. Over the past year, those sites gained a standard way to work with AI agents. WordPress 6.9 introduced the Abilities API, WordPress 7.0 added an AI Client to core, and the official MCP Adapter plugin turns registered…
Towards AI11 min readRunning an AI Agent Harness and 30Billion Parameter Mixture-of-Experts Model for Agentic Coding
AI Agents have changed daily software development. At the office, developers now have access to private frontier AI Models and a private frontier AI Agent Harness right in our IDEs.
Towards AI5 min readClaude Code Mods Are Here: Watch What Claude Is Doing
Don’t read the logs. Watch the crab.Continue reading on Towards AI »
Towards AI2 min readFrom Retrieval to Governance — The Architecture Shift Replacing Naive RAG
From Retrieval to Governance — The Architecture Shift Replacing Naive RAG Stop asking “How do we retrieve more chunks?” Start asking “How do we govern and structure what the model …
Towards AI12 min readClaude Code Tool Search Nearly Halves Your Context Bill
Claude Code 2.1.285 with 65 MCP tools: tool search cut the first request from 27,184 to 9,722 tokens and a full task by 46%. Off by default behind a proxy.
Towards AI9 min readMCP Isn’t Dead, Your Tool List Is Too Big
Four MCP servers, one Claude Code session, and by the time I typed my first real prompt, a third of the context window was already spent…Continue reading on Towards AI »
Towards AI1 min readSecure Your MCP Credentials!
Many developers keep database passwords and API keys in plain text in their MCP config. Here’s how to move them into 1Password and hand…Continue reading on Towards AI »
Towards AI1 min readYour Agent’s Memory Is a Liability: Track State, Not History
Your Agent’s Memory Is a Liability: Track State, Not History There is a French draft in one of my test apps that I keep like a fossil. Article 96924661: a title, a slug, zero paragraphs. A June …
Towards AI11 min readBuilt My Own MCP Server in 80 Lines of Python. Now Claude Knows My Sales Pipeline.
A year ago I wrote about building a tiny AI agent that uses MCP tools. It’s still the most-read thing I’ve published.
Towards AI8 min readAI Video Agent vs Video Generation API: Which Should You Choose?
Compare an AI video agent with a video generation API and a human editor. Three questions show which video tool fits your workflow.
Towards AI10 min readMCP’s Biggest Update Made AI Agents Scale. It Also Turned a Prompt Into a Password.
Signing a handle stops forgery. It does not stop theft. Here are the four checks every MCP server now needs.
Towards AI7 min readOne Harness, One Agent, Three GPUs: Running Qwen on a DGX Spark, an RTX 5090, and a Radeon R9700
Three machines, one model, one agent. A field report on what actually changed, and what I’d keep if I started over.
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