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Two agents meet in a park. "I've just had a complaint from a customer," says the first. "What's a customer?" asks the second. "Anyone with an account." A third agent walks over. "That's not a customer," it says. "A customer is anyone with an active subscription." The three agents pause …
Frank Coyle gave a twenty-minute talk at the AI Engineer World's Fair that has been circulating for a few weeks now, and the argument in it is simple enough to state in one sentence: agentic systems need ontologies, because LLMs are probabilistic and probabilistic systems need logical...
A response to "Software Ate the World, Now Hardware Is Eating Software." The diagnosis is right — value is migrating and point software is being crushed. The prognosis is wrong. When the bottom of the stack commoditizes, value doesn't stay there. It climbs back up to the layer the thesis forgot:...
The third post in the MCP series. The first two argued when MCP wins and loses. This one looks at the terrain MCP is supposed to win on — OAuth-bound integrations — and shows why even there, the ground is more fragile than it looks.
Anyone who has spent years doing systems integration immediately understands the appeal of MCP. The dream in this field has always been the same: a clean contract between systems, where every method is described, every parameter is typed, every response is predictable. No more 80-page PDFs read...
A practical configuration for a 32 GB M5 Mac that still needs to remain usable Running large language models locally has become surprisingly practical on Apple Silicon. With a modern Mac, Ollama, and a carefully quantized GGUF model, it is possible to run models that only a short time ago …
How an MCP server turns electricity exchange data into natural conversations The Italian electricity market produces an enormous amount of data every day: hourly prices by zone, traded volumes, liquidity, the PUN (Prezzo Unico Nazionale — the national single price). Essential data for traders,...