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Concepts.

One concept, properly explained, every week. The mechanism, not the hype — pick one and read the line straight through it.

01

MCP & tools

How models actually reach your data and systems — the M×N → M+N problem it solves, the three primitives, the transports.

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02

Agents

The loop behind the buzzword: think, act, observe, repeat — and where it quietly goes wrong.

soon
03

Cost & caching

Prompt caching, token math, and the structure choices that cut cached-input cost by ~10×.

soon
04

RAG & context

Retrieval, chunking, context engineering — what to put in the window and what to leave out.

soon

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