Playwright MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Playwright CLI (Command Line Interface) are two different architectures developed by Microsoft for letting AI agents control web browsers. They share the same underlying Playwright engine, but they are built around very different ideas about how browser state is delivered to the model. The biggest difference is this: Playwright CLI is optimized […]
Read More →Your agentic app just ran a search. The tool returned 500 results as JSON. Your agent appended all of it and fired off an API call — 45,000 tokens to answer a question that needed maybe 4,500. Tejas Manohar, a senior engineer at Netflix, hit this problem every day. He was running out of tokens […]
Read More →You give your AI coding agent a task. It gets to work. Thirty tool calls later you have code — and it’s not what you needed. The agent understood the words but missed the intent. It made a dozen small decisions that individually seemed reasonable, and collectively built the wrong thing. This isn’t a capability […]
Read More →TL;DR: The Kano Model isn’t just a PM’s tool — it’s a critical framework for engineers to evaluate feature value, manage technical debt, and define MVPs. By categorizing requirements into Must-be, One-dimensional, and Attractive qualities, teams can align technical execution with user satisfaction dynamics. Nowhere is this more visible right now than in AI agentic coding tools, where yesterday’s delighters […]
Read More →A practical guide for developers navigating Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Codex, and beyond. You switch from Cursor to Claude Code. Or from Copilot to Windsurf. The interface is different. The shortcuts are different. The config file has a new name. And for a moment, it feels like you’re starting from scratch. You’re not. Under […]
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