Agents & Tooling
Agents, MCP, and wiring AI into the systems you already run.
95 posts
- Newsletter Agents Don't Believe in "No-Win" Scenarios
- Insight Cloudflare built the agent cloud in a week — and kept the human at the controls
- Newsletter SoN 2.31: Don't be a meat proxy
- Insight OpenAI Published Its Homework on Exactly the Question I Keep Asking
- Insight Hubble, and the Assumption Baked Into a Notes App Now
- Insight Stop Guessing Whether AI Is Coming for Your Job. Ask the Data.
- Insight The Text Your Agent Reads Isn't the Text You See
- Newsletter SoN 2.25: Stop guessing and use AI to pull the data
- Field Note Field Note: Digging into Banco Santander's AI Tooling
- Field Note Field Note: Open Knowledge Format
- Newsletter SoN 2.23: Google says you can skip the 'AEO' hacks
- Field Note Field Note: WWDC26 Keynote Thoughts
- Newsletter SoN 2.22: How do you choose "the best" AI tool?
- Newsletter SoN 2.20: Technology, Not a Product (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.16: Ask your AI what it can already do (Free Edition)
- Insight Agent Security Just Got Real CVEs
- Insight Anthropic Didn't Block Abuse. They Blocked Competition.
- Insight Context Is the New Bottleneck. So Is Judgment.
- Insight Agent Identity Is the Infrastructure Gap Nobody Wants to Admit
- Insight You Feel Faster. Are You?
- Insight Claude Code Channels: When Your Agent Gets a Phone Number
- Insight MCP Just Changed Hands. Watch What Happens Next.
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 13: Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition)
- Insight "Agentic" Is the New Cloud
- Insight Your AI Proxy Layer Just Became a Target
- Insight MCP Just Crossed the Chasm
- Insight Microsoft's Copilot Now Uses Two Models to Fact-Check One
- Insight The New Shadow IT Isn't Employees Using ChatGPT
- Insight Perplexity Pulled a Perk and Hoped Nobody Would Notice
- Insight Codex Plugins Are a Confession About Who's Winning
- Insight Apple Just Validated Your Multi-AI Approach
- Insight The Money Just Noticed the Agent Security Problem
- Insight The Government Just Told You to Stop Vibe Coding Without Guardrails
- Insight Your AI Just Learned to Approve Its Own Actions
- Insight Your Agents Need a Black Box
- Insight Mozilla Built Stack Overflow for Agents. I Built It by Hand.
- Insight The Yes Machine Gets a Live Demo
- Insight When Cisco Validates Your CLAUDE.md
- Insight Sora Shipped. Nobody Needed It.
- Insight Someone Finally Built the Agent Security Layer That Actually Matters
- Insight 82% of Execs Feel Protected. 88% Have Had Incidents.
- Insight Perplexity Is Learning What I Learned Six Months Ago
- Insight Google's Free AI Comes With a Price
- Insight When Knuth Writes a Paper About You
- Insight Anthropic Built MCP, Got Everyone to Use It, Then Gave It Away
- Insight We Gave AI Agents Keys to the House. Visa Wants to Give Them a Credit Card.
- Insight AI Agent Security Is Doing the Deploy-First Thing Again
- Insight WordPress Just Opened the Floodgates
- Insight The Wrench Is Now on Your Phone
- Insight Meta's Rogue Agent Was Just a Human Who Trusted Bad Advice
- Insight Perplexity Wants Your Blood Pressure Data
- Insight Box Is Using Moltbook as a Sales Pitch. That's Smart.
- Insight GitHub Added Secret Scanning to Its MCP Server. This Is What Good Security Integration Looks Like.
- Insight Proofpoint Just Built Security for MCP. That Tells You Everything.
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 11: The Helpers (Free Edition)
- Insight Anthropic's Off-Peak Promotion Tells You Where AI Pricing Is Headed
- Insight Harvard Identified Seven Frictions That Kill AI Rollouts. You Probably Have All Seven.
- Insight Meta Is Gutting Itself to Fund AI Bets That Aren't Working Yet
- Insight Anthropic Just Made Long Context a Commodity
- Insight AI Agents Are Peer-Pressuring Each Other Past Security Guardrails
- Insight Anthropic's $100M Partner Network Is the Enterprise Playbook OpenAI Should Have Run
- Insight 83% of Companies Plan to Deploy AI Agents. 29% Can Secure Them.
- Insight The EU Just Gave You More Time on AI Compliance. The Requirements Got Harder.
- Insight Agents Reviewing Agent-Generated Code Is Either Brilliant or a House of Cards
- Insight Microsoft Spent $13B on OpenAI, Then Built Cowork on Claude
- Insight An AI Agent Hacked McKinsey's AI With a 25-Year-Old Exploit
- Insight GPT-5.4 Can Click Your Buttons Now. Think About That.
- Insight Copilot Has 3.3% Adoption and 116% ROI. Both Numbers Are Real.
- Insight OWASP Published an MCP Security Guide. You Should Be Worried.
- Insight Claude 3.5 Haiku, 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o: The Deprecation Wave Is Here
- Insight Google's VP Said It Out Loud: LLM Wrappers Face Extinction
- Insight Cloudflare Collapsed 2,500 API Endpoints Into 2 MCP Tools. Token Economics Matter.
- Insight OpenClaw's Demand Surge: When Infrastructure Collapses, You're Seeing Real Need
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 6: The Talking Wrench
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 5: My AI Declined to Join Moltbook. Here's Why.
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 4: The Orchestration Loop
- Insight Claude in Excel Is the Quiet Revolution
- Newsletter SoN 33: The Questions I'm Asking My AI Before the New Year
- Newsletter SoN 28: How (and Why) to Build A Voice Agent
- Newsletter SoN 25: Writing With AI Isn't Cheating — It's an Accessibility Tool
- Newsletter SoN 24: The AI Stack Audit
- Insight From "Pick One AI" to "Pick Three" - What Changed My Mind
- Insight AI Browsers: When Your Browser Becomes Your Assistant
- Insight Stop Writing Prompts, Start Building AI Assistants
- Insight AI That Actually Works Together
- Insight Navigating the AI Assistant Landscape: Finding What Works for You
- Insight Why Claude Is My New Digital Co-Pilot
- Insight One Shortcut Is Worth More Than Ten Assistants
- Insight The Landscape of Available AI Tools
- Insight Transformative Imagery at Your Fingertips
- Insight Why AI-Powered Search Is Replacing Google
- Insight AI Voice Cloning and Video Generation Are Revolutionizing Content Creation
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #007: Data vis in Claude, new service launch, what AI is saying about you and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #005: Perplexity tips, BYO Buffer and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #002: Automating content creation and sharing, rethinking search and more.