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How Claude Agents Actually Work: A 6-Layer Architecture Breakdown
<![CDATA[ Most developers, when they first wire up an LLM agent, carry a flawed mental model: the model runs code. It does not. Understanding where the boundary actually sits β what Anthropic's inf...
Cursor Cloud Agents: When Your AI Teammate Starts Filing Its Own PRs
The ceiling nobody talks about Local agents are fast to start. You open Cursor, describe the task, and the agent starts editing files. Feels like a superpower β until you try to run two agents at ...
Smart Context System: Give Your AI a Long-Term Memory for Real Projects
The Problem: Your AI Has Amnesia Imagine you just joined a new project. You open Cursor, ask it why a certain tax calculation works the way it does β and it has no idea. It sees the code, but it...
Get Shit Done: A Solo Developer's Guide to Shipping Faster with GSD and Claude Code
If you're a solo developer who codes with AI β you've probably hit this wall. You open Claude Code, start describing your feature, write some code, ask for fixes, write more codeβ¦ and somewhere a...
How I Used AI to Build Ginbok.com β From Idea to Production in My Spare Time
Ginbok.com started as a side project I spun up in my spare time β a personal blog powered by Optimizely CMS 12 on the backend and Next.js 14 on the frontend. What made this build different from my...
MCP Deployment Strategies: Stdio vs. HTTP SSE vs. WebSocket
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly emerged as the standard for connecting Large Language Models (LLMs) to external data sources and tools. As architects and developers, choosing the right...
Why the World Needed MCP When We Already Had APIs
A Question Worth Asking APIs have been around for decades. REST, GraphQL, gRPC β we have mature, well-documented standards for connecting software systems. So when MCP (Model Context Protocol) appe...
What Is an AI Agent? From Chatbot to Autonomous Actor
The Question That Started It All A developer recently asked me: "Are Claude or Cursor considered AI Agents?" It's a deceptively simple question. The answer forced a deeper look at what "Agent" actu...
How I Built a Custom MCP Server for My Personal Blog β ginbok-web
From Idea to MCP: Connecting AI to My Blog A few weeks ago, I had a simple but ambitious idea: what if I could talk to my blog the same way I talk to an AI assistant? Not just read posts β but lis...
MCP Server for E-commerce: AI Agents as the New Ops Team
"The future of e-commerce management is shifting away from building more complex internal dashboards and moving toward creating standardized interfaces where AI agents can act as an intelligent, sc...