Tech analyst, AI & the web
This section documents my experiments and learning journey with Agentic Web technologies, including MCP, agent interfaces, and AI-native content systems.
Webpages and websites are increasingly seen as “old world UIs” to proponents of AI agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This week, in a presentation at Microsoft’s MCP Dev Days entitled “The Future of User Interaction,” Kent C. Dodd even went as far as to say that “we’re entering a new phase where, instead … Read more
Is RAG dead yet? That was the tongue-in-cheek question posed recently by Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual AI. And Kiela knows a thing or two about RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) — he led the team at Meta that introduced the technique in a May 2020 research paper. Of course, Kiela’s post was a reaction to the … Read more
Last November Anthropic launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard designed to streamline how AI models interact with APIs. As we explained earlier this month, the vision is to make MCP the universal method for AI agents to trigger external actions. MCP has drawn a lot of interest in its first few … Read more