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Is HTML really "strictly better" than Markdown for Claude Code? I ran the numbers.

by Corey in Writing tags: claude_code, context_engineering

Thariq Shihipar of Claude Code team fame posted an article last week, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML", arguing that Claude should output HTML files by default for basically everything. PR reviews, postmortems, status reports, the lot. It's a good piece, racked up 8.3M views, and most of it I …

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

by Corey in Conferences tags: ai_engineering, agentic_coding, context_engineering, AI_Engineer_Europe

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

by Corey in Conferences tags: mcp, agents, tool_design, context_engineering, AI_Engineer_Europe

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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