Notes beyond the code
Long-form writing from us and guest engineers on what we’re building, breaking and rethinking as AI reshapes the day-to-day.
Anthropic merges 30,000 changes a day. Who checks that they work?
Anthropic rebuilt source control for agent-scale merging and launched tools that grade AI apps automatically. Both show that writing code has become cheap and checking it hasn't.
Vivek Raj · 9 min read · Oct 2026
Your product could be a markdown file
A lot of operator software was never the UI. It was judgment, a loop, and a channel. The playbook is the part that still needs you.
Vivek Raj · 9 min read
gRPC in MCP, explained from the transport up
Enterprises want MCP to speak gRPC without a translation layer.
Vivek Raj · 9 min read
The future of enterprise AI won't be won by bigger models. It'll be won by smarter inference.
Training gets the headlines, but inference pays the bills. Lessons from llm-d, the open source project founded by Red Hat and partners, on why routing intelligence beats raw hardware.
Sagar Vemala · 5 min read
MCP Apps, explained by building one
What the first official MCP extension changes about tool results, and what porting a production RAG agent into Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor taught me about where it leaks.
Vivek Raj · 9 min read
AI-native developer intelligence at scale
How we built a production-grade agentic AI system that unified docs, learning, components and marketplace discovery into one developer experience, and what shipping it taught us.
Sagar Vemala · 6 min read
AI is making juniors faster. I worry it's making them hollow.
Juniors are shipping faster than ever and understanding less than ever about what they're shipping. The gap between those two things is where the problem lives.
Raj Kumar Reddy Abbadi · 5 min read
Build your agents like Google built its shopping cart: a composable system, not one clever tool
What Universal Cart, AP2 and UCP quietly teach us about composability, and why your next MCP server should be small, boring and reusable.
Ravi Seelam · 7 min readGet the drops in your inbox
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