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The promise of AI agents seamlessly interacting with your local data and tools has long felt like a distant future. Proprietary integrations and fragmented ecosystems made true interoperability a developer's nightmare. But what if you could bridge this gap, connecting your AI assistant to your...
May 26, 2026 · 8 min read
You log off for the day after two hours of research. You know the entry point is EvaluateSegments in targeting/segment/evaluator.go. You know the nil visitor_id case is unhandled. You know bidder/auction.go calls this function and can't have its interface changed. Next morning, Claude Code knows...
May 26, 2026 · 8 min read
Imagine you’re building a personal research assistant. Its job is to ingest hundreds of academic PDFs, learn your unique writing style, and eventually draft comprehensive reports for you. When you first launch it, you connect it to a bleeding-edge cloud model like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o via...
May 26, 2026 · 13 min read
The Problem: Should I Go Foiling Today? I'm obsessed with wing foiling. If you don't know what that is — imagine holding an inflatable wing, standing on a hydrofoil board, and literally flying above the water. It's incredible. But every morning I'd check 3-4 different apps — windy.com, and...
May 26, 2026 · 8 min read
Building My First MCP Server with Claude and Python A few days ago, I started exploring MCP (Model Context Protocol) and wanted to understand how AI tools actually interact with external systems. Instead of just reading documentation, I decided to build a simple, real-world project: A custom...
May 26, 2026 · 4 min read
In the landscape of modern cyber-espionage and non-state actor operations, there is a recurring misconception in security analysis: the belief that there is a coherent ideology behind every attacker. Analysts often fall into the trap of seeking a "cause" or a set of beliefs to explain the actions...
May 26, 2026 · 4 min read
The dominant mental model for AI-assisted coding is speed: generate multi-hundred-line PRs, merge fast, iterate faster. Vibe coding as a velocity play. Nolan Lawson's post this week pushes back on that — not by rejecting LLMs, but by using them differently. "You can use them just as effectively...
May 26, 2026 · 3 min read
One of the best investments you can make for your design system right now is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. As AI models evolve they are becoming increasingly more capable, but using them effectively comes at a cost. Every token an AI wastes guessing how your components work is money left...
May 26, 2026 · 8 min read
A few weeks ago I woke up to a $100 charge from my AI provider. For a lot of people that's nothing. For me, a solo dev who obsessively keeps infrastructure costs near zero, it genuinely stung. But that wasn't even the part that got me. The part that got me was what I found when I went looking for...
May 26, 2026 · 3 min read
Read this article on Signadot. Something is breaking in open source, and it should alarm every engineering leader pushing coding agents into their organization. Over the past year, open-source maintainers have been overwhelmed by a flood of low-quality, AI-generated pull requests. Verbose changes...
May 26, 2026 · 7 min read
The consensus narrative around Apple Silicon and local AI inference goes something like this: impressive hardware, hobbyist-grade software, fundamentally memory-bandwidth-bound, ceiling already visible. This narrative is wrong—or at minimum, premature. The architectural headroom in Apple's Unified...
May 26, 2026 · 12 min read
RAG sounds complicated. It's not. But a lot of introductions to RAG make it sound more mysterious than it actually is. They use terms like "semantic search" and "vector embeddings" and "retrieval pipeline" before explaining what the actual problem is. So let me start differently. The...
May 26, 2026 · 6 min read
I spent 10 years in digital marketing and SEO and built every site with WordPress. This year, I decided to try to build a finance dashboard to track corporate insider and politician stock trades. WordPress didn't seem right for this, so I decided to try vibe-coding. I built the site, called...
May 26, 2026 · 4 min read
In this two-for-one episode recorded at HumanX, Ryan is first joined by Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb, to discuss how AI compresses the software development lifecycle, making observability about capturing the right telemetry. Then, Spiros Xanthos, founder and CEO of Resolve AI, shares with us how...
May 15, 2026 · 1 min read
Jon Hyman, co-founder and CTO of Braze, shares how he's led the company's engineering organization over nearly 15 years of growth — and how they transformed into an AI-first team in just a few months.
May 13, 2026 · 1 min read
At HumanX, Ryan is joined by Philip Rathle, CTO at Neo4j to discuss what knowledge context means for AI agents, how limitations like stale training data make the model-only approach to agents a bad fit for enterprise environments, and how Graph RAG raises the bar for accuracy and reduces context...
May 12, 2026 · 1 min read
Signature-based detection has always known what it was looking for. Machine learning and autonomous agents are changing the question entirely, shifting from "does this match a known pattern?" to "does this actually make sense in context?"
May 11, 2026 · 1 min read
Welcome to No Dumb Questions, a column where our least technical writer asks our technical staff the simple, basic tech questions people are afraid to ask. In this first entry, Stack's Director of Ecosystem Strategy Ben Marconi teaches us the basics of MCP servers and why they matter.
May 8, 2026 · 1 min read
Mat Marquis on Google pulling the web standards equivalent of U2 album marketing: As a Chrome user, you’ll have received Gemini Nano in the form of a 4GB transfer recently; no permission asked or required. If you remove it, … Google’s Prompt API originally handwritten and...
May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Selective control in autonomous AI systems: Why governing every decision breaks autonomy—and how runtime control actually works at scale.
May 1, 2026 · 1 min read
Agents are everywhere, so isn't it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an agent for work—and trying to learn a few things about coding along the way.
Apr 30, 2026 · 1 min read
Ryan welcomes Harsha Chintalapani, co-founder and CTO at Collate and co-creator of Open Metadata, to the show to discuss why AI and LLMs struggle with real-time, structured production data.
Apr 28, 2026 · 1 min read
AI companies are looking a little different after going through a few renewal cycles.
Apr 27, 2026 · 1 min read
Prompts go in, output comes out, and the decisions made in between are hidden from view.
Apr 23, 2026 · 1 min read
Chase Roossin, group engineering manager, and Steven Kulesza, staff software engineer, from Intuit join the podcast to chat about what might be the hardest problem in engineering right now: getting multiple AI agents to work together in a complex system.
Apr 22, 2026 · 1 min read
Ryan welcomes Stephen Watt, distinguished engineer and VP of Red Hat’s Office of the CTO, to chat about digital sovereignty and sovereign AI.
Apr 17, 2026 · 1 min read
Are you still "human-in-the-loop," or have you moved to "human-on-the-loop," overseeing a bot that’s doing the driving?
Apr 15, 2026 · 1 min read
The most valuable AI tools in your enterprise stack do more than generate answers. They help developers determine which answers to trust.
Apr 15, 2026 · 1 min read
Ryan welcomes Runpod co-founder and CEO Zhen Lu to discuss circumventing VC money by going straight to your community for funding, how Zhen balances founder intuition with user feedback when the community is the one backing the project, and Runpod’s journey from basement servers to global...
Apr 14, 2026 · 1 min read
Ryan sits down with Galen Wolfe-Pauly, CEO of Tlon, to chat about calm computing and how humans can take back ownership of their data and digital world.
Apr 3, 2026 · 1 min read