February 2026

• The Hidden Tax of Agentic Systems: The Token Economics of MCP — February 11, 2026
  There is a quiet cost building inside many modern AI architectures. It does not show up in demo environments. It does not appear in proof-of-concepts. It rarely gets mentioned in architecture diagrams. But in production, it becomes unavoidable. I am talking about token overhead – specifically, the growing operational cost of providing Large Language Models

• Adultic AI: Parenting Autonomous Agents for the Real World — February 10, 2026
  There is a quiet shift underway in software. For the past decade, we built systems that waited. They waited for input. They waited for permission. They waited for instruction. Now we are building systems that act. Autonomous agents can interpret goals, choose tools, chain actions, and produce outcomes with minimal human intervention. For many builders,

• Building for the Break: Why many of today’s public MCP servers are an accident waiting to happen — February 7, 2026
  Every technology wave produces its share of impressive demos. We are now seeing that pattern repeat with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Public MCP endpoints are appearing everywhere. Companies are rushing to expose tools, wire up APIs, and signal that they are ready for an agent-driven future. On the surface, this looks like progress. Underneath,

• The Era When Building Software Stops Being the Hard Part: The Likely Shape of the Next 5 to 7 Years — February 6, 2026
  For most of software history, the defining question was simple: Can we build it? That question shaped everything – team structures, hiring models, funding strategies, even professional identity. Software creation was expensive, slow, and coordination-heavy. Organizations assembled pyramids of talent because they had to. Junior developers produced volume. Senior engineers imposed structure. Architects guided the

• The Morris Worm Moment for Autonomous Agents — February 5, 2026
  Why mature systems design always arrives just after the first preventable incident. On the evening of November 2, 1988, a graduate student released a small program onto the early internet. It was not intended to be destructive. It was not designed as a weapon. It was, by most credible accounts, an experiment. Within hours, machines