Robert Tucker

Twenty years building customer-communications integration. Writing in public about AI-native work for the technical middle.

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Published on: July 3, 2026

Make the silence loud

ai mcp para-vault-mcp lab-note

A find_project query returned an empty array, and the LLM confidently told the user they had nothing — while four projects sat invisible behind one line of unquoted YAML. v0.4 of para-vault-mcp is about silences: wrong-but-confident answers, and the review discipline that fixes them even below the public bar.

Published on
June 24, 2026
Compensation tells you what your job actually is
presales generalist-integrator ai
Twenty years ago, a manager told me the fix I'd written to save a deal was a mistake. He wasn't wrong about the system — but my comp plan paid on closes, and the comp plan is the contract that tells you what your job actually is.
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June 16, 2026
The review composed the tool
ai mcp para-vault-mcp lab-note
Two of para-vault-mcp's tools just absorbed three Bash ops I was running every evening to start the daily review. The shape they took came from the review, not the vault.
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June 10, 2026
Two surfaces of truth, one quiet correction
ai mcp para-vault-mcp lab-note
I asked my own MCP a routine question and it caught me lying to myself. The thing worth writing about isn't that the MCP worked — it's which thing it got right.
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June 3, 2026
The senior generalist as Forward Deployed Engineer
ai fde generalist-integrator
Forward Deployed Engineer is having a moment. The discourse is missing a cohort that has been doing audit-integrate-deploy-stay work for twenty years. AI did not create the role. It unblocked us.
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Robert Tucker

Make the silence loud

Compensation tells you what your job actually is

The review composed the tool

Two surfaces of truth, one quiet correction

The senior generalist as Forward Deployed Engineer