Stumbling into AI: Part 1—MCP
A developer's personal learning journey into the AI ecosystem, starting with an exploration of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for connecting LLMs to APIs.
A developer's personal learning journey into the AI ecosystem, starting with an exploration of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for connecting LLMs to APIs.
The author argues that using AI to generate websites does not automatically make someone a 'web developer', and explores the definition of the title.
EU antitrust complaint filed against Google's AI Overviews, alleging misuse of publisher content and harm to traffic and revenue.
A guide on using Python, AI, and LLMs like LangGraph to detect code vulnerabilities, including workflow design and cost considerations.
A tech professional expresses deep concern about an imminent AI-driven economic downturn and mass layoffs in the tech industry.
Critique of the 'how many r's in strawberry' test as a poor benchmark for AI intelligence, arguing it measures irrelevant trivia.
A rebuttal to Marcus Hutchins' critique of AI, arguing that his definition of intelligence as 'novel discovery' wrongly devalues most knowledge work.
Analysis of Substack's decline and how AI enables creators to build their own platforms, reducing reliance on centralized blogging services.
AI-driven layoffs will increase pressure on remaining employees, creating a stressful work environment with unreasonable demands and job insecurity.
Explains why AI is revolutionary: it's not just a tool, but autonomous technology that multiplies human capability by doing work itself.
Argues that companies built solely on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are unlikely to succeed, while those using MCP as an integration layer have a better chance.
Explores how AI tackles 'Intelligence Tasks'—work requiring human judgment—that are overwhelming human capacity across security, healthcare, and business.
The article argues that AI's non-deterministic nature clashes with traditional computer interfaces, creating a fundamental human-AI interaction problem.
A developer demonstrates AI's practical intelligence by automating complex website maintenance tasks like tagging posts, migrating images, and converting messy HTML to clean Markdown.
Argues that clear thinking and purpose, not prompt or context engineering, are the key skills for effective AI interaction, writing, and coding.
A tutorial on implementing AI tool calling (function calling) using the Quarkus LangChain4j extension to integrate chat models with APIs and databases.
Argues that AI won't replace software engineers due to the inherent complexity of development and stakeholder management.
An Apple fan reflects on Google I/O 2025, expressing fear for Apple's future as Google pivots to an AI-first vision with Gemini.
A guide on using AI-powered Cursor to translate and localize Xcode String Catalogs by exporting XLIFF files.
A tech founder shares his journey through burnout after selling his company and how rediscovering his passion for building led him back to software development, inspired by AI.