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Claude Skills: Your Workflows, Encoded Once, Applied Intelligently
Progressive disclosure for your workflows: lightweight markdown files that load just-in-time, saving context and time.
Oct 24 • 
Sam Keen
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Mapping AI Agent Adoption Across 217,000 GitHub Repositories
Which AI agents are developers actually using?
Oct 16 • 
Sam Keen
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Engineering AI Generated Artifacts for Human Review
When AI writes at 10x speed, your review process becomes the bottleneck
Oct 10 • 
Sam Keen
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The Context Trap: When Detailed Specs Overwhelm AI Assistants
Four AIs, one todo app, and the importance of bounded contexts
Oct 3 • 
Sam Keen
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The Memory Illusion: Teaching Your AI to Remember
What 'memory' really means for LLMs (hint: it's simpler than you think)
Sep 30 • 
Sam Keen
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Why Your AI Agent Can't Remember the Milk: MCP Tool Descriptions Matter
Your tool descriptions are the difference between helpful AI and confused AI
Sep 21 • 
Sam Keen
Building for the Agentic Era: How MCP is Redefining AI Integration
How the open protocol enabling agentic AI is transforming system integration
Jul 11 • 
Sam Keen
When AI Writes Code, Architectural Vision Becomes Essential
Evolving the Architect role in the age of AI
Jul 5 • 
Sam Keen
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