$ blog --tag=Agents

Found 8 posts with tag #Agents

[ ] Developer Philosophy 14 min read

$ Skills, Pipes, and the Unix Philosophy: Why Agents Should Run Programs, Not Replace Them

The Unix philosophy — small programs, composed through pipes, doing one thing well — turns out to be an ideal operating model for AI agents. Skills leverage this by guiding agents to use battle-tested programs rather than reinventing them. Here's why that beats building custom MCP servers for most workflows.

[ ] Developer Philosophy 10 min read

$ Start Your Project Now: Why Every Engineer Needs a Personal Codebase in 2026

Work is the worst place to learn how to use AI well—precisely because it's the place where results are expected. In 2026, having a personal or open source project isn't about passion. It's about having a place where you're allowed to learn slowly so you can perform quickly elsewhere.

[ ] Developer Philosophy 8 min read

$ Your Own Personal Jesus: Why AI Needs Moral Agents, Not Moral Chatbots

There's a line in a song that aged better than anyone expected: your own personal Jesus. In the AI era, it stops being poetic and starts becoming literal. But this isn't about simulating Jesus—it's about building agents that embody the behavioral patterns of moral revolutionaries, governed openly, and accessible to everyone without institutional gatekeeping.

[ ] Developer Philosophy 11 min read

$ The Next Dataset for the Web: Why Our Conversations With Agents Must Become a Commons

For the past decade, AI models trained on the open web. That era is ending. The next frontier of training data isn't on websites—it's in our conversations with agents. If we don't build infrastructure to capture and share this data, the future of AI will be fragmented, siloed, and closed. Here's why we need an Agent Data Commons, and what it would look like.

[ ] Developer Philosophy 7 min read

$ The Agent Hiring Paradigm: Why Distributed Agents Need Public Personas

When I hire an engineer, I look for their blog posts, open source contributions, and public work. Why should hiring an AI agent be any different? Exploring the rationale behind distributed, discoverable agents with public personas—and why this matters for the future of autonomous systems.

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> Tag: #Agents