MCP in Practice
The following was originally published in Asimov’s Addendum, September 11, 2025.Learn more about the AI Disclosures Project here.1. The Rise and Rise of MCPAnthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) was released in November 2024 as…
What Ants Teach Us About AI Alignment
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a species of carpenter ant that lives in the mountains around Jerusalem. These tiny insects might just hold the key to one of…
MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 4
This is the last of four parts in this series. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here.9. Future Directions and Wishlist for MCPThe trajectory…
MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 3
This is the third of four parts in this series. Part 1 can be found here and Part 2 can be found here.7. Building or Integrating an MCP Server: What It…
MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 2
This is the second of four parts in this series. Part 1 can be found here.4. The Architecture of MCP: Clients, Protocol, Servers, and ServicesHow does MCP actually work under…
MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 2
This is the second of four parts in this series. Part 1 can be found here.4. The Architecture of MCP: Clients, Protocol, Servers, and ServicesHow does MCP actually work under…
5 Skills Kids (and Adults) Need in an AI World
Last week, I found myself hunched over my laptop at 10 p.m. (hey, that’s late for me!), wrestling with a coding problem. After hours of frustration, I stepped away and…
AI and Programming: The Beginning of a New Era
Our AI Codecon conference kicked off today with Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It. Here are my opening remarks introducing the series’ themes. You…
“Death by 1,000 Pilots”
Most companies find that the biggest challenge to AI is taking a promising experiment, demo, or proof of concept and bringing it to market. McKinsey digital analyst Rodney Zemmel sums…
A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products
Most AI teams focus on the wrong things. Here’s a common scene from my consulting work: AI TEAMHere’s our agent architecture—we’ve got RAG here, a router there, and we’re using…
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