In 2000, the music industry had a problem it misdiagnosed. Napster was stealing albums. The fix was obvious: stop the theft, protect the bundle. The album — twelve songs, a cover, a price — had structured the industry for fifty years. Labels, distributors, retailers, and artists all organized themselves around it. By 2003, iTunes had...
Author: Martin Treiber
Code as Action: The Pattern Behind Programmatic Tool Calling
There's a design decision buried inside every AI agent that most developers make without realizing they've made it: what is the atomic unit of action? For most agent systems built in the last two years, the answer is a tool call — a single function invoked with a JSON payload, its result surfaced back to...
A Practical Guide to Getting Started with OpenClaw
Somewhere in early February, Andrej Karpathy — founding member of OpenAI, former AI director at Tesla, a person not easily impressed by internet phenomena — logged onto a Reddit-like site for AI bots and described what he was reading as "genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently." The site was Moltbook....
Your Agent Framework Is a Monolith. The Browser Doesn’t Care.
Last week, I dropped an LLM agent into a plain HTML file. No Node.js. No Webpack. No Docker container running a Python backend that proxies to another Python backend. One <script type="module"> tag, a couple of imports, and an agent that reasons, calls tools, writes code, and delegates to sub-agents — all orchestrated entirely client-side,...
Vercel’s Eval Data Suggests Static Context Beats Skill Retrieval for AI Coding Agents
There's a recurring theme in AI engineering that never gets old: the "dumb" approach beating the sophisticated one. This time, Vercel has the receipts. The company published eval results on January 27, 2026, comparing two approaches for teaching AI coding agents about Next.js 16 APIs — framework features like use cache, connection(), and forbidden() that...
The Ralph Loop: How a Bash Script Is Forcing Developers to Rethink Context as a Resource
A team at the Y Combinator Agents hackathon recently ran an experiment. They spun up a few GCP instances, started Claude Code in infinite loops, and went to bed after 2 AM. When they woke up, they had 1,100+ commits across six repositories, including a near-complete port of Browser Use from Python to TypeScript. Total...
Programmatic Tool Calling with Claude Code: The Developer’s Guide to Agent-Scale Automation
When Claude Code executes a tool, it typically works like this: call a function, wait for the result, process it, call the next function. Repeat fifty times for fifty tasks. It's effective, but each step requires a full round-trip through the API—and those round-trips add up fast. Programmatic Tool Calling (PTC) inverts this pattern. Instead...
The state of AI in 2025
By the end of 2025, arguments about whether AI 'works' have quietly ended. The technology works well enough that 86% of professionals report time savings—yet 69% hide their use from colleagues. Not because AI fails, but because they fear judgment, job loss, or simply getting assigned more work for the same pay. The real questions are no longer about capability but about who is using AI, for what, under what constraints, and at what cost.
The AI Paradox at Work: Why LLMs Don’t Just Automate Tasks — They Undermine the Job Map
In early 2024, McDonald's made a quiet announcement: after three years of testing AI-powered drive-through ordering across more than 100 U.S. restaurants, the company was pulling the plug on its partnership with IBM. The technology would be removed by July 26. The official explanation was polished corporate-speak about "exploring voice ordering solutions more broadly."...
The Agentic Loop, Explained: What Every PM Should Know About How AI Agents Actually Work
If you've heard the term "agentic AI" in the past year, you're not alone. It's become the buzzword of choice for everything from coding assistants to customer service bots to—inevitably—project management tools. Vendors promise agents that will "autonomously manage your workflows" and "proactively handle tasks." Before dismissing this as hype (tempting) or buying in...
