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Build, Buy, or Call an API: How We Actually Decide

Clients ask me why we don't just build our own model. It's a fair question, and most of the time the honest answer is that building our own would be the slowest and priciest route to a result slightly worse than an API hands us on day one. Engineers like building, and 'we made our own' reads well in a pitch.

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Designing MCP tools an agent won't misuse

The first article in this series made a pair of claims. One: an AI-native product is an MCP server that lets an agent do things, not a chat widget that talks about them. Two: every write an agent can invoke needs idempotency and typed, recoverable errors, because agents retry and fan out by default. Both took typed schemas for granted.