jul 31, 2026anthropic.com ↗
All That Intelligence. It Still Had to Be Told to Try.my take: capability supplies the motor, but judgment still has to lay the track and insist on the hard problem.
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★ latest · 2026-07-14 · 8 min readYour Agent Has Too Many ToolsMCP tools consume context and affect prompt caching. CLIs and tool search point toward a better pattern: progressive disclosure for agent capabilities.2026-07-05The Great Token Arbitrage2026-06-24User Experience Is No Longer Just for Users2026-06-19Beyond RAG: Agentic Context Constructionall 16 essaysbrowse →
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jul 28, 2026huggingface.co ↗
Kimi K3's Full Weights Are Now on Hugging Facemy take: the open-model gap is now literally measured in weeks.
jul 18, 2026lore.kernel.org ↗
AI Is a Tool. And It's Clearly a Useful One.my take: experienced engineers are converging on the same observation: AI agents have crossed from promising to plainly useful.
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