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Plain-English explainers.
What is RAG. What is an MCP. What does “agent” actually mean. Definitional, opinionated, written so you can skim them in five minutes and walk away with a working mental model.
Pattern
02 entries- April 25, 20267 min read
Building effective agents.
Anthropic's quiet thesis. Most AI features do not need an agent, and the ones that do follow a smaller pattern than the framework discourse suggests.
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MCP vs RAG.
The comparison is misframed. MCP is a tool-call protocol; RAG is a retrieval pattern. Most real systems run both, at different layers of the stack.
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