I Stopped Using MCPs and Replaced Them with Skills and Scripts
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 good, for what …
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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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grug make AI skill. grug happy.
grug been thinking about complexity demon lately. complexity demon sneaky. complexity demon hide in code review. complexity demon whisper “just add one …
Read →The Testing Pyramid Still Matters (Even When AI Wrote Your Tests)
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 …
Read →AI and the Human Factor - My Observations
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. But the …
Read →Building Interactive MCP Tools with Elicitations: A Practical Guide
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is revolutionising how we build AI tools, but a powerful new features recently added to the protocol will be a game changer: …
Read →How I Built Interactive AI-Powered Training with GitHub Copilot
One of my current projects is a migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions. I saw a challenge: how to effectively train DevOps teams on new tools in an …
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