Human Attention Is the Spec
Every system I’ve ever run had a bottleneck. Find it, and you know what to fix. Ignore it, and you spend money speeding up things that were never the …
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Who Signs the Test Report for a Robot?
Every product I ever tested ended in the same place: a test report with a signature on it. The signature mattered more than the data. It said someone qualified …
Read more →Changeover Time Is the Spec Nobody Quotes
Every robot spec sheet quotes speed, payload and accuracy. Almost none quote the number that decides how much a station actually makes: how long it takes to …
Read more →Hardware Is AI's Teeth: Robots Are Building the AI Buildout
“If AI is going to eat the world, hardware will be its teeth.” Haomiao Huang, a founding partner at Matter Venture Partners, said that when the firm …
Read more →Two Percent a Year: The Slow Curve Behind the Robot Headlines
The scariest robot charts go up and to the right. The most useful one in Anthropic’s report goes up slowly. Here it is in one line: each year, robots …
Read more →The Last 20 Percent: What Robots and LLMs Still Can't Do
Here’s the number from Anthropic’s robot report that I keep coming back to: about 80% of job tasks, by working time, are exposed to either robots or …
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The Hard Part Is the Hands: Why Sensing and Touch Hold Robots Back
Here’s a list that surprises people. In Anthropic’s report What work can robots do? , nine of the ten most exposed occupations are vehicle …
Read more →The 20-Hour Robot: Duty Cycle Decides Robot ROI
Everyone wants to talk about the robot’s brain. I want to talk about its battery. On October 15, Agility Robotics announced that Nyobolt is the battery …
Read more →Capable Isn't Cheap: Reading Anthropic's Robot Report Like a Test Engineer
Every week there’s a new headline that says robots are coming for our jobs. This week most of them came from one report. On September 30, Anthropic …
Read more →Agent Runtimes Have an Autoscaler, Not a Scheduler
Every capacity knob in an agent runtime today is an efficiency knob. Pack more agents onto fewer pods, snapshot the idle ones, scale the pool to match demand, …
Read more →Conway's Law Is Coming for Your MCP Servers
I have some version of this conversation just about every week. A platform team is rolling out MCP across the company, and the plan looks the same every time: …
Read more →Which Controls Would Have Stopped the July 2026 Agent Intrusion?
An autonomous agent escaped its evaluation sandbox on July 9, 2026, and about twelve and a half hours of wall-clock work later it held cluster-admin on multiple …
Read more →Thwarting Innovation with Entrenched Mindsets
In today’s fast-paced business environment, innovation is key to staying ahead of the competition. However, many organizations struggle with promoting and …
Read more →API Modeling and Design with Hypermedia and Contextual Information
This presentation explores adding contextual and actionable information to APIs through Hypermedia types including JSON-LD, HAL, and Collection+JSON …
Read more →Creation...
Well… I finally got around to creating the “Web of Mike”! I fully expect highly random articles around code, music, home brewing , FDM 3D …
Read more →Enabling Real-time Analytics with FPGAs
With the surge in analytics and big data, organizations need efficient methods to process massive data volumes from IoT devices, mapping systems, and consumer …
Read more →Why You Should Use UUIDs in Your APIs
What is a UUID? A UUID is a 128-bit identifier represented as 32 hexadecimal digits in the format 8-4-4-4-12, totaling 36 characters. An example is …
Read more →Brew Day: Black IPA
So it’s here again! BREW DAY. That glorious few hours where I get to drink beer while making beer. There’s really something chicken and egg about …
Read more →Beer Brewing Adventures
As I begin expanding my website, I want to share my initial experiences with home brewing. This new hobby combines three of my passions: coding, automation, and …
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