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Agent loops are often oversimplified. They're presented as a single loop, when really it's three loops in a trench coat that make up an "agentic" experience for a customer. I'm here to write (yes, I wrote this, insane right?) yet-another-blog about agent

Handwritten @ The Blue Bottle in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA.From SOAP, to REST, to gRPC, to MCP - these interface design languages are all but certain to have the spotlight in an agentic world. Thank god... (except for maybe SOAP). Because I hope that A

I was asked to write an AI Playbook for a dinner I was invited to tonight. I don't think I know what an AI playbook is. But my best guess is that it's something that can be referred to when building AI functionality. Or maybe when you're selling it? It's

Dear mom,We've achieved a fascinating milestone together. As of now, we will always have had more time apart than with each other. Before your death, we had almost 17 years together, and now, we've had 18 apart. For most, the amount of time they have with

A cocktail bar I love(d) in London. I forget the name. Sony A7R IV w/ FE 24mm F1.4 GMI don't care about being sober anymore. It's not that I've reverted to drinking (I still live an alcohol-free life) but I literally don't care much anymore. I cared quite

Last Update: August 20th, 2025The AI SRE category is red hot. The promise is compelling: What if machines could go on-call for you? Several startups have emerged to hunt this white whale of a product, so much so that our customers keep asking me which one

Every day during the summer, a group of 165 young performers wake up in a high school gym on air mattresses. After they get up, their breakfast (the first of four meals a day) is served by dozens of volunteers out of a catering semi-truck parked outside a

I don't quite crave alcohol six months in, but at times it does feel like an ex-girlfriend you lived so much life with. You can't help but wonder what she's up to. You want to call and ask sometimes, but you know it's healthier to keep your distance. You

I've been on my couch for four hours today (and several more in the past) trying to unearth why I've been charged $21 by Microsoft consistently for the past year, because I'd really like someone to actually investigate this journey I'm on. Because there a

There's something brewing in the incident management category - new and extreme competition. In the last week, FireHydrant, Rootly, and Incident.io all released on-call products competitive with PagerDuty and OpsGenie. But why did it all happen at nearly