Things I keep sending people
Shelf
Read, reread, or recommended to a friend. No affiliate links, no ranking, just a line on why.
- Spec · modelcontextprotocol.io21 Sept ’26Model Context Protocol“Read the spec itself, not only the tutorials. It is shorter than you think.”
- Article · Anthropic18 Sept ’26Building effective agents“The clearest argument for starting simple: workflows first, agents only when you must.”
- Article · Hamel Husain2 Sept ’26Your AI product needs evals“Why the unglamorous part, looking at your data, is the whole job.”
- Article · Rich Sutton20 Aug ’26The Bitter Lesson“Two pages I reread whenever I am tempted to be clever.”
- Paper · Vaswani et al.18 Aug ’26Attention Is All You Need“Still worth reading in the original, if only to see how plain the idea looks on paper.”
- Book · Martin Kleppmann16 Aug ’26Designing Data-Intensive Applications“The best map of the ground underneath every AI system I have worked on.”