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The Security Cliff Between Your Local MCP Server and Production

Tun Shwe (LinkedIn) and Jeremy Frenay (LinkedIn), both AI Engineers at Lenses.io, gave a joint talk at AI Engineer Europe 2026 on what happens when MCP servers leave the safety of a developer's laptop. Their central claim: most MCP servers are built for single-player local development and collapse the …

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Your AI Agent Is a Junior Developer. Manage It Like One.

Brendan O'Leary (LinkedIn, X), a Developer Relations Engineer at Kilo Code, opened his AI Engineer Europe talk with a observation that's easy to nod along with and hard to act on: most engineers have used AI tools by now, but almost none of them can articulate how they actually work …

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MCP Tools Are Raw Material, Not Finished Products

Nimrod Hauser (LinkedIn, X), a founding engineer at Baz, opened his talk at AI Engineer Europe with a deceptively simple observation: public MCP servers ship tools designed for everyone, which means they're optimized for no one. When you plug generic tools into a production agent, the agent hallucinates URLs, saves …

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Build the Gym, Not the Dataset

Stefano Fiorucci (X, LinkedIn, GitHub) is an AI/Software Engineer at deepset, where he contributes to the open-source LLM framework Haystack. At AI Engineer Europe 2026, he made a case that the next leap for open-source language models isn't better datasets -- it's better environments. The kind where models can act …

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Subagent Modes in Claude Code

A post making the rounds claims that Claude Code subagents share a prompt cache, making parallelism "basically free." It says you can spin up five agents and pay barely more than one. It lists three execution models — fork, teammate, and worktree — and says they all share the cache. Analysis of …

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Remapping the Logitech R500s on Ubuntu 24.04 with keyd

Here’s my latest keyboard:

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WTF is BM25? The Intuition Behind the Algorithm

BM25 is an unsung hero powering heaps of stuff you use every day – think search bars, recommendation systems, or even those fancy AI chatbots that somehow dig up the right info from a mountain of text (we're looking at you, Retrieval-Augmented Generation).

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⚡️ Latent Space - The new OpenAI Agents Platform

OpenAI have dropped their new Agents Platform. Swyx and Alessio chat with Nikunj Handa and Romain Huet of OpenAI to discuss the release.

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The Quick Tutorial on Python Lambda Functions That You Never Asked For

Let's be real, nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, "You know what I need more of in my life? Python lambda functions." But here we are. Buckle up, because this is the lambda tutorial you didn't ask for -- but secretly need.

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Founders #383: Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream

I listened to Senra's great episode on Todd Graves of Raising Cane's fame this morning. Here are my snips from the episode.