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#2687: When Pre-Flight Checks Help (or Hurt) Agentic AI Plugins
How to decide when a pre-flight check is worth the latency cost — and how to write good ones.
#2686: Why Jerusalem Stays Poor Despite Its Pull
Why Jerusalem’s economy is broken, from the 1948 division to the modern housing crisis.
#2685: Plugin Data Storage for AI Agents
How to separate user data from plugin code across Linux, macOS, and Windows in agentic AI environments.
#2684: When Agent Skills Collide: Context Windows & Plugin Design
How to handle overlapping agent skills and whether context windows will ever make the problem go away.
#2683: MCP vs Agent Skills: Context Wars
When 12M token windows arrive, do MCP servers or agent skills win? Plus: federated access for agent teams.
#2682: Live Retrieval vs. RAG: What an Agent Actually Does
Does every AI conversation create a tiny vector store? We unpack the real tradeoffs between live document fetching and pre-indexed RAG.
#2681: Laundry Decoded: Beyond the Red Sock Disaster
Sorting, labels, water temps, and detergents — the complete beginner's guide to not shrinking your wardrobe.
#2680: The 200-Year Loophole That Shaped UK Tax
How a 1799 tax carve-out let billionaires avoid UK taxes for centuries — until Akshata Murty broke it.
#2679: Can a VPN Protect You from SS7 Phone Spying?
SS7 is the hidden backbone of global phone networks—and it's wide open to spies. Here's what a VPN does and doesn't fix.
#2678: How IMSI Catchers Actually Track Your Phone
How fake cell towers intercept your phone, from GSM flaws to 5G fixes. Separating spy-thriller hype from real engineering.
#2677: Memory Layers for AI Agents: SaaS vs Self-Hosted
Zep, mem0, Letta, Graphiti, Cognee — which memory layer should you commit to for your AI agent?
#2676: Vector Database Schema Design for AI Memory Layers
Stop dumping vectors blindly. Design metadata schemas and namespaces for retrieval that actually works at scale.
#2675: When AI Makes Documentation Effortless
The key documents every consultant needs—and how AI makes them effortless to create and maintain.
#2674: Why Your Agent's Context Window Is Getting Eaten Before You Start
Stop shipping the whole toolbox to every session. A bridge plugin pattern that fetches skills on demand instead.
#2673: The Embedding Coupling Problem: Editing Vector Stores
Can you edit or delete individual chunks in Pinecone? And can you actually back up a vector index? Yes—but with critical caveats.
#2672: When a Startup Claims to Break the Quadratic Wall
A startup claims linear attention scaling at 12M tokens, beating GPT-5.5 on retrieval benchmarks.
#2671: How Your Phone Helps Strangers Find Lost Wallets
Your phone silently helps strangers find lost items. Here's how the cryptography and mesh networks actually work.
#2670: When Your Projector's App Store Dies
Brightness, screens, and software longevity — what to look for when buying a portable projector.
#2669: Low-Touch Lead Qualification for Solo Consultants
Stop wasting hours on calls with unqualified leads. Learn low-touch vetting that filters bad fits without sounding hostile.
#2668: When a Flamethrower Is Overkill
Tesseract, EasyOCR, or a cloud vision model? How to build a fast, reliable label scanner for real-world conditions.