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Field notes for engineers building agentic software.

Essays on multi-agent delivery, security failures, and the architectural trade-offs that matter when systems leave the demo stage.

16 Apr 2026 News

Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex Are Becoming One Stack Nobody Planned

The AI coding tool market isn't consolidating — it's layering. Cursor orchestrates, Claude Code executes, Codex reviews. Here's why that matters.

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16 Apr 2026 News

OpenAI's Agents SDK Gets Sandboxes and a Harness — Finally

OpenAI updates its Agents SDK with sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for frontier models. Here's why that matters and what's still missing.

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14 Apr 2026 News

Anthropic Is Building a Full-Stack AI Company

The Opus 4.7 rumours are less important than the surrounding product moves. Anthropic is clearly expanding from model vendor to full workflow platform.

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14 Apr 2026 News

The Agentic AI Market Needs Critics, Not More Launches

Agentic.ai is a useful signal that the AI tools market is getting crowded enough to need curation, scoring, and actual judgment instead of another flood of generic directories.

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14 Apr 2026 News

The Open Agent Idea Is Now Too Big for Microsoft to Ignore

Microsoft experimenting with an OpenClaw-like agent inside 365 Copilot is the clearest sign yet that local, long-running AI agents are moving out of hobbyist territory and into the enterprise stack.

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Getting Started with Claude — Mac Desktop App and Subscription

Getting Started: Getting Started with Claude — Mac Desktop App and Subscription

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Getting Around the App — Interface and Keyboard Shortcuts

Getting Started: Getting Around the App — Interface and Keyboard Shortcuts

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Your First Agent Session: Getting Real Work Done

Getting Started: Your First Agent Session: Getting Real Work Done

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Basic Commands and How to Talk to Claude

Getting Started: Basic Commands and How to Talk to Claude

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Understanding Contexts — What the Model Remembers

Getting Started: Understanding Contexts — What the Model Remembers

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Code Review — Asking Claude to Critique Your Work

Core Workflows: Code Review — Asking Claude to Critique Your Work

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Debugging with Claude — From Error to Fix

Core Workflows: Debugging with Claude — From Error to Fix

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Multi-Turn Conversations and Deep Threads

Core Workflows: Multi-Turn Conversations and Deep Threads

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Getting Structured Output — JSON, Markdown, and More

Core Workflows: Getting Structured Output — JSON, Markdown, and More

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Using Tools — Bash, Web Search, and Everything Else

Core Workflows: Using Tools — Bash, Web Search, and Everything Else

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Memory and Continuity Across Sessions

Core Workflows: Memory and Continuity Across Sessions

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

File Editing: Reading, Writing, and Navigating Code

Core Workflows: File Editing: Reading, Writing, and Navigating Code

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Prompt Engineering That Actually Works

Core Workflows: Prompt Engineering That Actually Works

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Working with Documentation

Intermediate: Working with Documentation

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Integrations: Connecting Claude to Your Development Environment

Intermediate: Integrations: Connecting Claude to Your Development Environment

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Keyboard-First Development: Building the Foundation

Intermediate: Keyboard-First Development: Building the Foundation

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Setting Up a New Project with Claude

Intermediate: Setting Up a New Project with Claude

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Autonomous Tasks: Delegating Real Work to Claude

Advanced: Autonomous Tasks: Delegating Real Work to Claude

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Chain-of-Thought: Asking Claude to Think Step by Step

Advanced: Chain-of-Thought: Asking Claude to Think Step by Step

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Context Optimisation: Managing Long Conversations

Advanced: Context Optimisation: Managing Long Conversations

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Cost Optimisation: Getting the Most Value from Claude

Advanced: Cost Optimisation: Getting the Most Value from Claude

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Custom Prompts: Shaping Claude's Behaviour for Your Context

Advanced: Custom Prompts: Shaping Claude's Behaviour for Your Context

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Enterprise Patterns: Using Claude at Scale

Advanced: Enterprise Patterns: Using Claude at Scale

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Evaluation: Knowing Whether Claude Is Working Well

Advanced: Evaluation: Knowing Whether Claude Is Working Well

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Multi-Agent Setups and When to Use Them

Advanced: Multi-Agent Setups and When to Use Them

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Security: What Claude Can and Cannot Be Trusted With

Advanced: Security: What Claude Can and Cannot Be Trusted With

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Agent Orchestration: Coordinating Multiple Agents

Expert: Agent Orchestration: Coordinating Multiple Agents

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Building Products with AI as a Component

Expert: Building Products with AI as a Component

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Writing Tests: What to Test and How to Test It

Intermediate: Writing Tests: What to Test and How to Test It

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Context Windows: Giving Claude the Right Amount of Information

Intermediate: Context Windows: Giving Claude the Right Amount of Information

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Git Workflow: Using Claude with Version Control

Intermediate: Git Workflow: Using Claude with Version Control

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Refactoring with Claude: Improving Code Systematically

Intermediate: Refactoring with Claude: Improving Code Systematically

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Error Handling: Debugging and Graceful Failures

Advanced: Error Handling: Debugging and Graceful Failures

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Claude Runtime and the API: Building at Scale

Expert: Claude Runtime and the API: Building at Scale

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Community: Building an Audience Around Your Product

Expert: Community: Building an Audience Around Your Product

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Evaluating Models for Your Product

Expert: Evaluating Models for Your Product

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

The Future of AI in Software Development

Expert: The Future of AI in Software Development

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Monetisation: Building Products That Use Claude

Expert: Monetisation: Building Products That Use Claude

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Your Learning Journey Continues

Expert: Your Learning Journey Continues

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12 Apr 2026 Guides

Self-Hosted vs Managed Agents: What Suits Your Use Case

Expert: Self-Hosted vs Managed Agents: What Suits Your Use Case

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11 Apr 2026 News

Anthropic Banned OpenClaw's Creator From Claude. Then Reinstate Him.

Peter Steinberger - the creator of OpenClaw, now employed at OpenAI - was briefly locked out of his Anthropic account. The timing with Anthropic's recent OpenClaw pricing change makes it look like more than a clerical error.

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11 Apr 2026 News

Apple Just Picked Google Over OpenAI for Siri's AI Brain

Apple and Google announced a multiyear partnership to bring Gemini-powered AI to Siri. For Apple, it's an admission that building its own foundation models isn't working. For Google, it's another default-search-deal-sized win.

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11 Apr 2026 News

OpenAI Tells Investors It Has a Computing Advantage Over Anthropic - And It's Not Wrong

A leaked memo reveals the infrastructure gap between OpenAI and Anthropic is widening. OpenAI is at 1.9 gigawatts. Anthropic is at 1.4. The question is whether compute equals quality.

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11 Apr 2026 Guides

What Is Claude and Why It Changes How You Work

Getting Started: What Is Claude and Why It Changes How You Work

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9 Apr 2026 News

Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents: What It Actually Means for Your AI Workflow

Anthropic has entered the managed agent runtime space. Here's what their public beta actually offers, where it overlaps with tools like Claude Code and OpenClaw, and what it means if you're already running your own agent harness.

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30 Mar 2026 News

Google Introduces AppFunctions, Betting Android's Future on On-Device Agents

Android AppFunctions lets apps expose typed, discoverable capabilities that AI agents like Gemini can invoke directly — no UI required. It's Android's answer to MCP, and it's shipping in Android 16. Here's what it means for your product.

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28 Mar 2026 News

Cursor Is No Longer Just an IDE

Automations, self-hosted cloud agents, JetBrains ACP support, and 30+ new plugins — Cursor has quietly shifted from AI-assisted coding tool to agent runtime. Here's what that transition actually means for how you build.

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24 Mar 2026 News

Shopify Is Building the Infrastructure Layer for Agentic Commerce

Shopify isn't adding AI features — it's rebuilding its platform so that autonomous agents can buy, sell, and transact on behalf of humans. Here's what that means for engineering teams and storefronts building on top of it.

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17 Mar 2026 News

NVIDIA NemoClaw: OpenClaw Finally Gets the Security Layer It Needed

NemoClaw isn't a new agent framework — it's the governance and security infrastructure that makes OpenClaw deployable in production. One command installs the whole stack. Here's what's actually in the box.

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13 Mar 2026 News

NVIDIA's NemoClaw: The Open-Source AI Agent Platform That Could Reshape Enterprise Automation

NVIDIA's surprise pre-announcement has the enterprise AI world paying attention.

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12 Mar 2026 News

Know Your Agent: The Next Trust Layer in Agentic ECommerce

KYC verifies buyers and KYB verifies sellers. In agentic commerce, we also need KYA to verify autonomous agents acting with purchasing authority.

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11 Mar 2026 News

Home Assistant, Assist, and MCP: Building a Home That Understands Intent

Why Home Assistant + Assist + MCP is a practical stack for moving from scripted automations to intent-driven household systems with real control, privacy, and extensibility.

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11 Mar 2026 News

Building Agent Teams: Orchestrator Patterns and Consensus Mechanisms That Hold Up in Production

A practical guide to designing multi-agent systems with clear orchestration, bounded autonomy, and consensus strategies that improve reliability instead of adding complexity.

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5 Mar 2026 News

The AI Stack Is Changing — Here's What Actually Matters

Three years ago, the practical vocabulary of applied AI was modest: fine-tune a model, wrap it in an API, ship. Today, building intelligently with AI means navigating a rapidly maturing stack — retrieval, orchestration, autonomy, commerce.

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5 Mar 2026 News

Multi-Agent Engineering Teams: A Practical Model for Modern Software Delivery

A Principal Engineer's view on how multi-agent systems can improve delivery throughput, quality, and team focus without compromising engineering rigour.

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4 Mar 2026 News

OpenClaw Security for Side Projects: Risks Worth Fixing Early

A Principal Engineer's practical guide to securing OpenClaw in side projects without adding heavyweight process.

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