Essay · May 2026
Welcome back — what this blog is now
“You can’t write about a wave while you’re underneath it.”
I last posted here in May 2024. A year later, the AI tooling landscape has moved so fast that the post I left at the top — about AI in DevOps — has become quaint. Codex CLIs that run for hours. Claude Code’s plugin and skill system. MCP turning every SaaS API into an agent tool. Cursor passing nine figures in ARR. The Anthropic / OpenAI / Google triangle reshaping itself every quarter.
I went quiet because I was busy using the stuff. Now I’m starting again — but with a different shape than before.
What changes
The early posts here (the AI Part 1 / Part 2 series, the cricket bot, the trip planner) were beginner-friendly walkthroughs. They were fine. They were also the kind of post you can now ask any decent LLM to generate in thirty seconds.
What I want to write about now is the second-order work. The part of building with AI that doesn’t fit on a tweet:
- How an agent fails in production, and what you’d actually change.
- What MCP really gives you that the Anthropic Messages API doesn’t, with the seams visible.
- Read-throughs of working code — Claude Agent SDK, plugin authoring, eval pipelines.
- The trade-offs between agent frameworks I keep seeing teams get wrong.
What stays
The 2024 posts. They’re a record of where my thinking was; I’d rather leave them than retcon them. But you’ll see fresher essays going forward, and the homepage will tilt toward what I’m working on now.
This site is partly written by the agent it’s about.
What’s next
The next post is a write-up of an agent I’ve been building this week — a Claude Agent SDK pipeline that researches the day’s AI news and emails me a persona-organized digest, then drafts the same content as a blog post. I’ll explain how, including what I had to fight with the WordPress.com MCP to get there.
If that sounds interesting, the /now page tracks what I’m currently building. Or — write to me. My inbox is open.
— Archit, May 2026
Archit Dwivedi 
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