// agentbrief.dev
What working engineers are building with Claude, MCP, and the agent stack.
No analyst-speak. No "industry experts agree." Just shippable patterns from production work — written by an engineer who's running this stuff in real systems.
tue brief · fri deep-dive · free · no tracking
// what you get
tue
Tuesday brief
5–7 stories from the AI engineering stack. Quick takes from a working engineer. ~600 words, ~3 min read.
fri
Friday deep-dive
One long-form story per week — the one that matters. ~1,200 words. Names tradeoffs. Takes a side.
voice
Anti-slop voice
No "significant breakthrough." No "industry experts agree." Real opinions from someone shipping production code with Claude.
kit
Shippable patterns
Code, configs, and agent workflows you can lift. The starter kit ships them embedded in real working examples.
// the path
all products →// from the log
all posts →Real screenshots, not stock slop — headless source-page capture
Stock footage screams content farm. Capturing the actual source — the repo, the docs, the release notes — with a headless browser makes the output look like it came from someone who read the thing.
Record your own voice — forced alignment instead of paying for TTS
Synthetic narration is the fastest tell that something is AI slop. Narrate in your own voice and still automate the timing — forced alignment maps your audio to the script for frame-accurate captions, free.
What "production" actually means for an LLM pipeline
The demo works on your laptop. Production is everything the demo skipped — retries, idempotency, output validation, cost tracking, and what to do when the model returns garbage at 3am.
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