David Egts

@davidegts
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Field CTO, #PublicSector, #MuleSoft | Drum playing, motorcycle riding computer geek, husband, dad, & catechist
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"Audit your current MCP servers & ask, for each tool they expose, whether that tool solves a knowledge problem or an execution problem. If a tool exists primarily to teach the agent how to use an API rather than to call that API, it is a candidate for extraction into a skill file." https://thenewstack.io/skills-vs-mcp-agent-architecture/
The case for running AI agents on Markdown files instead of MCP servers

Developers are replacing bloated MCP servers with Markdown skill files — cutting token costs by 100x. Here's the two-layer architecture emerging in production AI systems.

The New Stack
Here's a dedicated music streaming channel of hyperpop, meme-core, & AI-generated covers, all sung by a synthetic Homer Simpson https://homer-radio.vercel.app/
🍩 Homer's Radio - D'oh FM

Homer's Radio - 24/7 Music streaming with Homer Simpson

"I did another test with a made-up list of the greatest hula-hooping traffic cops. Last time I checked, chatbots were still singing the praises of Officer Maria 'The Spinner' Rodriguez." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

BBC
"An AI that reads lines strictly from left to right may stumble over multi-column scientific papers or misinterpret footers as part of the main text. These [PDF] parsing issues can cascade into so-called 'hallucinations,' where a model produces inaccurate summaries or fabricates details." https://www.techspot.com/news/111485-humble-pdf-becoming-problem-ai.html
The humble PDF is becoming a problem for AI

Researchers and developers working with large language models say these structural quirks introduce subtle but significant errors. An AI that reads lines strictly from left to right...

TechSpot
"One of the hardest day-to-day challenges is getting people to step back & think about how work itself is going to change. ... The real shift is asking: six months from now, a year from now, how should this work fundamentally look different?”" https://hbr.org/2026/02/where-senior-leaders-are-struggling-with-ai-adoption-according-to-research
Where Senior Leaders Are Struggling with AI Adoption, According to Research

As AI becomes embedded across organizations, senior leaders are facing pressures that rarely surface in public forums. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus groups with 35 executives across global enterprises, new research uncovers what executives are tackling as they lead efforts to scale AI: continuous disruption, contested definitions of value, and emotionally divided responses to change. Not only that: They’re navigating these tensions in real time.

Harvard Business Review
"Cortical Labs has developed an interface that makes it easier to program these chips using the popular programming language Python. An independent developer, Sean Cole, then used Python to teach the chips to play #Doom, which he did in around a week." https://www.newscientist.com/article/2517389-human-brain-cells-on-a-chip-learned-to-play-doom-in-a-week/
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

New Scientist
"[I]f we went down in flames, they would be our flames" https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/article-rush-album-2112-fifty-years/
Fifty years of Rush’s 2112: The sound of a band that refused to bend

Prog rockers’ gamble to stay true to their art remains a lesson in creative courage

The Globe and Mail
"The project is called JVic—because it’s a VIC-20 emulator written in Java. It’s primarily intended for playing old VIC-20 games, & is designed with mobile devices front of mind—so it works well on a phone screen" https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/a-vic-20-emulator-in-your-browser/
A VIC-20 Emulator In Your Browser

The Commodore VIC-20 was a solid microcomputer that paved the way for the legendary Commodore 64 to come. If you’re a fan of the machine and want to revisit its glory days, you could hunt one…

Hackaday
"This vaccine, what we term a universal vaccine, elicits a far broader response that is protective against not just the flu virus, not just the Covid virus, not just the common cold virus, but against virtually all viruses, & as many different bacteria as we've tested, & even allergens" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g8rz7yedo
Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say

A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

"Not every #API should be an #MCP tool. The APIs that should be are those that are well-documented, secure, idempotent, cost-controlled, fast, scalable, right-sized, process-compliant, semantically distinct, & regulation-cleared." https://blogs.mulesoft.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-readiness-profile-for-apis/