Connect an AI coding tool to Atlas without sharing credentials
A practical guide to MongoDB Atlas App Connections, delegated MCP access, and the boundary between interactive AI clients and automated agents.
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agents
Practical notes to help you make the next useful move.
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Test a live voice agent before you trust the demo
Use ADK's live evaluation loop to test turn-taking, tool calls, handoffs and spoken conversations before shipping a voice agent.
When privacy and AI safety stop being opposites
What OpenAI's Private Safety Processing preview teaches us about building AI workflows that protect data and remain observable.
Choose the right LLM for the job
A practical guide to choosing fast, general, reasoning, long-context, multimodal and specialist models by workflow phase.
Herdr: one terminal for the whole herd
A practical first look at Herdr, a terminal-native multiplexer for keeping coding agents, shells and long-running work together.
Spend tokens on decisions, not noise
A practical look at the four tools I use to keep AI coding sessions focused: Caveman, Ponytail, RTK and Graphify.
Agent brief template: give the work a finish line
A copyable brief for giving an agent a clear goal, useful context, and a definition of done.
Watch: Agentic AI — workflows vs. agents
A short visual explainer for choosing a fixed workflow, an agent, or a combination of both.
Agents and skills: what is the difference?
A practical mental model for deciding when you need an agent, a skill, or both.
Turn a repeated task into an AI skill
Build a small, testable skill from work you already repeat instead of starting every request from scratch.