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Signals Archive

A chronological record of external shifts, research, and technical signals.

Building Internal Agents (Series)

Will Larson (ex-Stripe/Uber) provides the definitive engineering manual for 'human-on-the-loop' architecture, context compaction, and skill interfaces.

2025: The Year in LLMs

Simon Willison identifies the 'Reasoning Revolution' and the $1B run-rate of Coding Agents as the pivot point from 'Chat' to 'Systemic Integration'.

Building MCP Servers in the Real World

Gergely Orosz validates the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as the practical standard for connecting LLMs to private data, moving beyond 'vibe coding'.

AI, Networks, and Mechanical Turks

Benedict Evans reconfigures AI as a supply chain problem, highlighting where human judgment ('The Mechanical Turk') provides the premium value in a generative loop.

Technology Radar Vol. 33

ThoughtWorks officially adopts the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and 'Inference Orchestration,' signaling the maturation of agentic engineering.