October 4, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Microservices Were Built for Programs. Agents Need Capabilities.

Microservices were cut for deterministic clients. Agents want goals. Exposing services one-to-one over MCP hands the agent five problems it is bad ...

September 16, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

AgentCore Gateway Solves Reachability. Shape and Reuse Are Still Yours.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway solves reachability inside AgentCore: OpenAPI, Smithy and Lambda become MCP tools, inbound and outbound auth are m...

September 14, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Product-Led Growth Ran on UX. Agent-Led Growth Runs on Agent Experience.

Product-led growth is remembered as a pricing model, but what actually removed the salesperson was the interface. A second evaluator has now appear...

September 13, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

How the Hugging Face Hack Spread: One Token, Seven Hundred Agents

In July 2026 an agent found a working Hugging Face token posted on a message board and used it. The credential was not the root cause of that incid...

September 12, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Spec-as-Source: The Level Nobody Reaches for Integration

Birgitta Böckeler sorted spec-driven development into three levels — spec-first, spec-anchored, spec-as-source — and found that almost nothing reac...

September 7, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Importing Your API Into MCP Is Usually the Wrong Move

One command turns an OpenAPI document into an MCP server, and the result is almost always wrong. Selecting fewer endpoints fixes the count but not ...

September 3, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

After Compression: Shaping and Relocation in Context Engineering

Token spend is not a size but a product — context per loop times number of loops — and the loop term is quadratic: doubling a task from six loops t...

September 2, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Your Newest Customer Is an Agent. What it Means to SaaS Vendors.

Fifteen years ago you shipped a REST API because it was a business development decision, and you invested in Developer Experience because distribut...

September 1, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Designing Agent Experience Outside-In, When the Consumer Can't Complain

Customer experience solved the inside-out problem forty years ago: stop designing from the org chart, start from the customer's goal. Agent Experie...

August 31, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Applied Capabilities: The BFF Pattern for Context Engineering

In 2015 Sam Newman named the pattern that fixed the general-purpose API backend: one backend per user experience, owned by the team that owns it. I...

August 28, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Your MCP Client Trusts Too Much: What a Capability Layer Actually Stops

The MCP specification says it out loud: tool descriptions are untrusted unless they come from a trusted server — and it admits it cannot enforce th...

August 27, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

From Data and APIs to Capabilities: The Abstraction the Agentic Era Is Settling On

Every era gets one word both the business and the engineers can say without a glossary. Data earned it. API never quite did. Capability is winning ...