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9 min read

Bridging IFTTT to Your Local AI Assistant with an MCP Proxy

IFTTT shipped MCP support but only for Claude and ChatGPT. Here’s how I built a 500-line Node.js proxy to connect it to any stdio-based MCP client, and the two gotchas that made it interesting.

  • ai
  • tools
  • coding
  • automation
6 min read

Your AI Provider Is a Single Point of Failure

Last Friday, a government letter took Anthropic’s most advanced models offline worldwide. If your architecture doesn’t assume your AI provider will disappear, you’re running on …

  • AI
  • resilience
  • architecture
  • GenAI
7 min read

Your Coding Assistant Is Not You

Developers everywhere are panicking when their AI coding assistant goes silent. The dependency patterns are real and the skill erosion is measurable. But these tools don’t define you. Awareness …

  • AI
  • coding
  • addiction
  • GenAI
8 min read

The Next Casualty of the GenAI Revolution

I was at an event this morning where someone said something that really resonated with me. “The new programming language is English.” And you know what? They’re right. Jensen Huang …

  • GenAI
  • LLM
  • Agents
  • Tools
19 min read

The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: Technical Debt You Can't See

I had an interesting conversation with a colleague a few weeks ago. He was looking at his team’s metrics, sprint velocity up 40%, PRs merging faster than ever, test coverage sitting pretty at …

  • GenAI
  • LLM
  • Agents
  • Tools
4 min read

LLMs and bon bons

GenAI is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you’re going to get. And just like that box of chocolates, sometimes you get the perfect piece, and sometimes you bite into that bon bon …

  • GenAI
  • LLM
  • Agents
  • Strands