Tim Ariyeh

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No. 25 Jul 2026

It Worked Once

A demo proves a thing is possible. It says nothing about how often it works, and production runs entirely on how often. Possibility is not reliability.
No. 24 Jul 2026

Children of the Magenta Line

The cockpit ran this experiment first: the work automation spares you is where your judgment was grown. Knowledge work is about to get the same bill.
Series Jun 2026
Six-Part Series

The User-Code Stack

Your users' assistants already write code against your product. Six parts on running it safely, end to end: the case for allowing it, the execution boundary, the sandbox and policy at the heart, an identity that survives the trip in, a credential broker underneath, and the primitives the whole platform composes from.
No. 17 Jun 2026

A Channel Is Not an Assignment

Work assignment is a solved problem, and chat is the tool we know fails at it. Claude Tag hands that job to an agent, which only makes the failure worse.
No. 16 May 2026

The Knowledge Rancher

When generation becomes free, the job stops being production and turns into managing a herd you didn't have to raise. What's left is judgment and timing, and that drains you in a way typing never did.
No. 15 May 2026

MCP Apps: When Your Server Needs a Face

MCP Apps let servers render interactive UI directly in conversations. The interesting question isn't how. It's when you should bother.
No. 14 May 2026

Writing a Good MCP Server

Most MCP servers expose too many tools with bad names and useless errors. Practical lessons from building servers that models actually use well.
No. 13 May 2026

Intro to Claude Context

Claude starts every conversation as a blank slate. Context tiers let you fix that once instead of fixing it every time you open a chat.
No. 12 May 2026

Prompted but Not Read

We used to write 'Dictated but not read' at the bottom of letters when a secretary did the typing. The parallel to what we're all doing now is too perfect to ignore.
No. 10 May 2026

Toxic AI Mentality

A frame people fall into where AI failure becomes a trophy. The screenshot is queued before the prompt is sent. Meanwhile, everyone around them is shipping.