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The review composed the tool
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.
Robert Tucker
Twenty years building customer-communications integration. Writing in public about AI-native work for the technical middle.
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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.- Published on
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.- Published on
I shipped one tool with a parameter. Eighteen hours later I split it into three. A day after that, I deleted one of the three. The lesson is that tool surface follows real use, not design.- Published on
Reopening the blog as a generalist-integrator figuring out what AI means for people like me — the ones who connect things rather than ship from inside a single platform team.