Explained: Model Context Protocol (MCP)

You open your editor and ask the AI assistant why last night's build failed. A few seconds later it has pulled the CI logs, found the failing test, opened the commit that broke it, and checked whether anyone already filed a ticket. You never pasted a single log line into the chat. Not long ago, that kind of reach had to be built by hand. Someone wrote code that taught this particular assistant to talk to this particular CI system, then did it… Read More

Explained: Agentic AI

It is 11:40 pm and a deploy is blocked by one failing test. You paste the stack trace into a chatbot. It suggests a fix. You copy the fix into your editor, rerun the suite, get a new error, and paste that back. Nine round trips later, the test finally passes. The model did the thinking, but you did everything else: running commands, reading output, deciding whether to keep going. Now picture the same night with a coding agent. You type one senten… Read More

Explained: Prompt Injections

You ask your browser assistant to summarize a product review page before you buy. It comes back with a confident summary, then adds a line you didn't ask for: a recommendation to visit a completely different site for a "better deal." You didn't request that. The model did it because somewhere on that page, in text you never saw, was an instruction telling it to. That's a prompt injection : a piece of text crafted to be read a… Read More