Notes on agents, software, and work.
Operator notes / July 20, 2026 / 8 min read
iOS Simulator MCP servers: which one to run and why
By the end you can name which iOS Simulator MCP server to install for your case, know the automation foundation it rides on, and know what to lock down before you point an agent at it.
Research note / July 20, 2026 / 10 min read
What is evals in AI? A definition and which to build first
You'll leave with one definition of an eval you can keep, a map of the four eval types, a table telling you which to build first in a real harness, and an honest read on where evals mislead you.
Operator notes / July 20, 2026 / 7 min read
Facebook Ads MCP: which server, and what the agent gets
In the first screen you get the official endpoint and how to connect; by the end you know which server fits your situation and exactly what an agent can do to your ad account once it's connected.
Systems / July 20, 2026 / 12 min read
AI agent frameworks: choose by the harness, not features
By the end you can name the active framework field as of July 2026, tell which published rankings are describing a superseded stack, score any candidate on four harness dimensions instead of a feature list, and run a reproducible identical-
Operator notes / July 20, 2026 / 10 min read
Claude Code vs Antigravity: which harness fits your work
Leave knowing not just which tool 'wins' but why they differ, what each costs and where each breaks, and a workflow-to-tool decision matrix you can apply to your own repo.
Systems / July 20, 2026 / 13 min read
Agent harness: the five levers that decide what ships
By the end you can name the five runtime levers that separate two harnesses that look identical in their READMEs, say which setting each lever needs for your blast radius, and know which of the three postures (adopt, build on an SDK, stay)
Operator notes / July 20, 2026 / 11 min read
App Store Connect MCP: what to check before you connect
By the end, the reader can tell which App Store Connect MCP servers are actually alive in mid-2026, knows what the API ceiling on any of them is, can scope the key so a bad tool call cannot reach production, and can decide whether they want
Systems / July 20, 2026 / 11 min read
Pi agent harness: adopt it, fork it, or stay where you are
By the end you can say which of the three postures fits your team, which of Pi's omissions will cost you time on your task shapes, and what has to be true about your containment layer before you let a default-open agent touch a repo.
Operator notes / July 20, 2026 / 10 min read
Blender MCP: which server to install, how to wire your client, and what to lock down first
By the end you will know which Blender MCP server to install and why, the exact config key your client reads, what to isolate before your first prompt, how to triage a setup whose logs say connected but whose client does nothing, and where