Bigger context, worse agents
I've been experimenting with feeding agents larger volumes of context. The pattern is steady: the bigger I make it, the worse it looks. Meanwhile, the rest of the field is racing t...
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The context wars: how Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok manage agent memory in 2026
I've spent months building context management patterns by hand. Here's how the four major platforms are solving the same problems at the infrastructure level — and what it means fo...
Custodians of context: how our roles must evolve in the AI era
I've been writing about context management at the individual and team level. This post zooms out: if context is the real bottleneck in AI, who owns it across an organization — and...
Separation of concerns in AI agent teams: lessons from multi-disciplinary delivery (and where they break)
We've been solving the 'too complex for one person' problem for decades in program delivery. Now some team members are language models — and the coordination overhead is measured i...
The recipe app I couldn't build six years ago
Six years ago I helped a CPG company dream up a smart meal planner. We never shipped it. This year, my wife and I built it — and we use it every week.