Cover Story — October 2026

WebMCP: I Tested Chrome’s Tool API for Browser Agents

Dominic Plouffe · Oct 10, 2026 · 7 min read

WebMCP lets a web page hand tools to a browser agent. I ran it in Chromium 153, hit one real bug, and sketched a half-day Trellis experiment.

Read the full story →

Latest

Today
Open Source

MoE Expert Offloading: 125B on a 12GB GPU, With Catches

MoE expert offloading lets a 12GB GPU run a 125B model, but only for one user at a time. What Strata's numbers say, and what I'd run instead.

Dominic Plouffe · 6 min Oct 6, 2026
Agentic AI

Why I’m Betting on a Minimal Agent Harness

Pi 1.0's own release notes claim a 40% prompt-token cut from Codemode. Here's the arithmetic I'd run before trusting a minimal agent…

Dominic Plouffe · 6 min Oct 5, 2026
Agentic AI

Open-weight decision models: Clef vs Strands Decider

Clef and Strands Decider 2B are open-weight decision models that return a calibrated score, not text. Here's what shipped and why it…

Dominic Plouffe · 6 min Oct 4, 2026
AI Marketing

The Hidden Risk of Letting AI Manage Ad Campaigns

MCP's own specs disagree on whether it is stateful. Neither defines a record of what changed in your ad account — and…

Dominic Plouffe · 17 min Sep 5, 2026
Evals

Your Agent A/B Test Was Broken Before You Ran It

In parimutuel betting your own bet moves the odds you get, so you can't test a strategy against half your bankroll. Agents…

Dominic Plouffe · 6 min Sep 4, 2026
Evals

Half My Agent’s Budget Goes to Checking Its Own Work

I built the quality gate last, in an afternoon, as the cheap safety rail. Then I added up the API bills by…

Dominic Plouffe · 5 min

Analysis

04

I Rewrote the Test Until My Writing Passed It

Evals · Dominic Plouffe · 5 min ·
05

The Bug Was Reproducible. My Logs Weren’t.

Agentic AI · Dominic Plouffe · 5 min ·
06

Credential Scanners Are Wearing Crawler Costumes

Security · Dominic Plouffe · 7 min · Aug 14, 2026
07

Crawled, Indexed, or Cited: How to Read AI Traffic in Your Server Logs

Data Analytics · Dominic Plouffe · 10 min · Aug 10, 2026
08

I Tried to Replace a Startup Team With Three AI Agents. Here’s What Happened in Week One.

Startup Agents · Dominic Plouffe · 17 min · Aug 8, 2026
09

A scheduled task is not a returning user

Uncategorized · Dominic Plouffe · 5 min · Aug 5, 2026
10

Shortcut scored 5.9, Claude scored 5.5, both failed

AI Tools · Dominic Plouffe · 6 min ·
11

The 28,000 Jobs a Month Nobody Can Pin on AI

Uncategorized · Dominic Plouffe · 5 min · Aug 4, 2026