Notes from two lenses.
Essays on product, photography, and the in-between. Long-form when it's worth it; nothing scheduled.
May 2026
Apr 2026
I asked Claude to build my MCP server. Here's what I actually got.
Standing up an MCP server took a day. Understanding what I built took longer. The interesting part wasn't the engineering.
Don't build the agent. Enable the access.
Why the next twenty years of product work is about exposing capabilities to agents, not designing destinations for users.