Twice-weekly field notes
Practical notes on agents, RAG, MCP, model operations, and the engineering patterns that make AI systems durable.
Local agentic coding crosses the practicality threshold with Gemma 4 hitting ~75% of frontier model quality. Claude Code v2.1.178 delivers major subagent reliability fixes, Andrew Ng ships OpenCoworker as a desktop agent, and the Universal Tool Calling Protocol emerges as a leaner MCP alternative. Cloudflare's Dynamic Workers promise 100x faster agent code execution.
OpenRouter launches Fusion API for multi-model compound inference at half cost. MCP's largest-ever spec revision ships July 28 with six breaking changes — production servers need migration plans now. Security crisis: 40% of public MCP servers have no auth. Cloudflare ships 20+ agent infrastructure products. Coding agents shift from autocomplete to cloud delegation.
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