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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A few weeks ago I wrote about replacing MCPs with skills and scripts. Someone pushed back in the comments with one exception I couldn’t wave away: agent to agent communication has no CLI. I pointed …
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Everyone’s excited about MCPs. The Model Context Protocol is supposed to be the standard way AI agents talk to external services. And it 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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I’ve been spending a lot of time in agentic AI workflows lately. Describe a feature, the agent writes the code, the tests, and the PR. It’s …
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Over the last year, I’ve been watching how people use AI coding tools. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude - everyone’s got access to them now. …
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