AI Agents
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MCP Skills: I Tried Them, and Verified Is Not Trusted
MCP skills ship in the official TypeScript SDK 2.4. I ran them, and a hostile server's prompt injection still came back verified: true. Here is why.
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Matt Pocock Skills: Every Skill Explained and How to Install
Matt Pocock skills explained: what all 27 plugin skills do, who can call each, how to install, what critics say, and how it compares to GSD and BMAD.
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WebMCP: I Tested Chrome’s Tool API for Browser Agents
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.
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Codebase Port Cost: What ts-rust Really Took
ts-rust ported the TypeScript compiler to Rust with agents. I ran it and read its own numbers: the codebase port cost $24k after a $400k stall.
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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 an unattended run needs that record.
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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 have the same problem, and almost nobody running an A/B test on one has noticed.
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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 phase. Across four runs it took 51.5% of everything the pipeline spent.
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I Rewrote the Test Until My Writing Passed It
Five commits in four days, every one adjusting the grader that judges this blog's drafts, every one triggered by a verdict I disagreed with. Finance has been making that mistake with real money since the seventies.
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The Bug Was Reproducible. My Logs Weren’t.
A post on this site ended in a raw API payload for 151 days. Fixing it took two minutes. Explaining it took longer, and I never finished, because I had not recorded what the model actually said.
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The Hidden $100K+ Reality: What 50+ Enterprise OpenClaw Deployments Reveal About True Implementation Costs
Open source is not the cheap part. The cheap part is the license. The expensive part is everything you now own. Across 50+ documented enterprise OpenClaw deployments, the…