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May 20, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Passed the Customs Broker Exam. The Important Part Wasn't the AI.

Two Claude models took the April 2025 Customs Broker License Examination. Both passed comfortably. The cheaper model scored slightly higher.

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April 8, 2026 · 3 min read

Definition of Done

Why finding a plausible answer is not the same as finishing the search.

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March 29, 2026 · 3 min read

A Really Good MCP Makes Building Agents Really Easy

Everyone's trying to build AI agents. Most of them are fighting the infrastructure the whole way.

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March 27, 2026 · 3 min read

We Built a UI. Then We Realized That's Not the Point.

The easiest path was to ship a product around our interface. We went a different direction.

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March 22, 2026 · 3 min read

The AI Tool You're Paying For Has a Financial Reason to Be Worse

Every SaaS vendor offering 'AI-powered' features is making a tradeoff you never agreed to.

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March 20, 2026 · 3 min read

Your Trade Intelligence Shouldn't Be Trapped in Someone Else's App

Most AI tools for trade compliance ask you to change how you work. We think that's backwards.

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