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June 28, 202611 min read

Why Big Companies Are Building Their Own Coding Agents

Ramp built Inspect, Stripe built Minions, Block built goose. Cursor and Claude Code exist and are excellent — so why are these companies rolling their own? The answer is context, integration, and ownership, and it says something about where the moat in AI engineering actually sits.

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June 14, 20268 min read

MCP, Skills, and Workflows: Three Ways to Put Claude to Work

A plain-English guide to the three features that decide what an AI agent can do — MCP (access), Skills (a toolbox it chooses from), and Workflows (a strict assembly line) — with the analogy that finally made them click for me.

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May 20, 20261 min read

Go-To-Market Is an Engineering Problem

Why the best distribution is built like a product: measurable, iterative, and instrumented end to end.

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