Hi, I'm Nick Perkins. I'm a software engineer building AI-focused products. On weekends I officiate motorsport. This is where I write about what I'm working on and what I'm noticing along the way.
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Last night I pointed a coding agent at 13 open issues on the food inventory app I built for the house, and told it to manage the work and ask me only when it needed a human. About seven hours later I …
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In June I wrote about replacing MCPs with skills and scripts, and about a skill file beating an MCP server almost everywhere except where …
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A few weeks ago I wrote about replacing MCPs with skills and scripts. Someone pushed back in the comments over on LinkedIn with one …
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Update, October 2026: I’ve changed my mind about part of this post. Here’s why.
Everyone’s excited about MCPs. The Model Context Protocol is …
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grug been thinking about complexity demon lately. complexity demon sneaky. complexity demon hide in code review. complexity demon whisper …
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Practical guides and opinions on building with AI — workflows, tools, and what I'm noticing along the way.
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