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Long-form technical content, ecosystem analysis, and hands-on storytelling from the Naftiko crew.
April 2, 2026 · Kin Lane
Elastic's Doc Skills — A Blueprint for Packaging Institutional Knowledge
Elastic published 19 versioned Claude Code skills for their documentation workflows as an open source catalog, demonstrating what it looks like whe...
April 1, 2026 · Kin Lane
NPX as Enterprise Distribution for AI Agent Skills
The npx command has quietly become the primary distribution mechanism for AI agent skills, turning npm into the package manager for teaching coding...
April 1, 2026 · Kin Lane
Naftiko Signals: Seeing Where Enterprise AI Investment Is Actually Going
Naftiko Signals tracks technology investment across 311 companies and 49 industries — not through analyst surveys or vendor claims, but through the...
March 31, 2026 · Kin Lane
Context Engineering for Business Stakeholders with Office 365 Copilot
A conversation with Microsoft's Sebastien Levert reveals how context engineering through Work IQ and agent swarms is reshaping how developers build...
March 24, 2026 · Kin Lane
The CLI Is the New IDE: How Claude Code Is Rewriting Developer Workflows
Developers are increasingly adopting Claude Code as a command-line tool rather than relying on traditional IDEs. This shift represents a fundamenta...
March 20, 2026 · Kin Lane
Things I Learned About AI and the Future of Software Engineering
Reflections on what AI means for the future of software engineering and how the development lifecycle is evolving.
March 18, 2026 · Kin Lane
How the Major Providers Are Building Agent Skills Repositories
A look at how major providers are building agent skills repositories and what the differences tell us about the future of AI agent ecosystems.
March 17, 2026 · Kin Lane
Why Governance Is the New Gateway: What Enterprise AI Readiness Really Looks Like
Enterprise AI readiness is less about technology adoption and more about governance maturity. The gateway is no longer the API gateway -- it is the...
March 12, 2026 · Kin Lane
Agent Skills: The Missing Layer Between AI Agents and Real Work
Agent Skills represent the missing abstraction layer that connects AI agents to real-world business capabilities.
March 11, 2026 · Kin Lane
Your Docs Are Now Infrastructure -- And Nobody Owns Them
Documentation has become infrastructure in the age of AI. But who owns it, and what happens when it drifts?
March 3, 2026 · Kin Lane
The State of Developer Experience in the Age of AI
How AI is reshaping developer experience and what it means for the tools and workflows developers rely on.
March 3, 2026 · Kin Lane
The MCP Configuration Maze: How to Register and Manage MCP Servers Across Your Entire Toolchain
Navigating the complexity of registering and managing MCP servers across your entire toolchain.