From Lab to Life20 Sep 2026 · Essay
The Context Engine
Three kinds of context, three write rules, and a project that outlives the session, the harness, the model and the machine
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The thesisChasing Jarvis: The Bottleneck Was Never the CodeWe are learning to build and ship real digital products using AI coding agents. The gap between idea and shipped product is no longer technical, it is contextual.The methodEvery Product Needs a HomeBuilding a modern website in the age of AI agents: a manual, told through the new website of The CuratorThe researchContext as Architecture: Full-Corpus Grounding, Orchestrated Agentic Development, and Compliance-by-Design in a Production AI Assistant PlatformThis paper reports a longitudinal design-science case study of a single production artefact — Lumina, a multi-tenant AI assistant platform — across two complete generations built fourteen months apart in capability terms and seven months apart in calendar terms.
From Lab to Life30 Aug 2026 · Essay
The Handoff Writes Itself
The confession piece about two years of hand-written handoff files. The flaw: the most degraded model writes the most important document.
From Lab to Life3 Jul 2026 · Essay
Second Brain to Shared Brain: Building a Neural Network of Your Own Knowledge
A follow-up seven weeks after the Shared Brain launch. The author's own wiki has 3,305 nodes and 15,095 edges at v3.0.6.
From Lab to Life22 Jun 2026 · Essay
I Built Auto Loops Before They Had a Name
How Claude Code plus Playwright via MCP became an autonomous testing loop in early 2025, before "loop engineering" had a name.
From Lab to Life27 Apr 2026 · Essay
From Graph to Intelligence: The My Curator MCP and the Art of Querying Your Second Brain
How My Curator MCP Turns Your Second Brain into a Frontier AI Research Partner
From Lab to Life27 Oct 2025 · Essay
Understanding AI Agents: From Chatbots to Autonomous Digital Workers
The foundational definitions essay. Sets out the taxonomy of chatbots, assistants, agents and autonomous workers, with a four-tier autonomy hierarchy and a five-level maturity model for agentic AI.
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How I Built an AI-Powered Vacation MCP Search Tool in 14 Days (And Why You Should Care)
The MountVacation MCP server build story, and one of the first open-source MCP servers for tourism.
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Exploring Early Indicators of AGI in Coding Agents: MCP + Cline Case Study
What happens when you give an entry-level AI model the right tools and see if it can build complex software? That’s exactly what I tested in my latest research, and the results reveal something fascinating about the path toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
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Exploring Early Indicators of AGI in Coding Agents: A Case Study on MCP-Powered Systems
This study, conducted under the COTRUGLI Business School 2 Co-lab initiative in Q1 and Q2 2025, investigates whether Model Context Protocols (MCPs) can enhance large language models (LLMs) to exhibit early indicators of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in coding agents.