Ben McAdams

Notes

Field notes, not theory.

  • A rival worth learning from

    Tadej Pogačar's interview after Jonas Vingegaard crashed out of the Tour de France stuck with me as a small model of leadership.

  • Two agent auth specs, at once

    Two proposals for agent auth landed the same week — same name, same problem, different mechanisms.

  • MCP is a toolbox. A2A is a coworker.

    MCP and A2A get lumped together, but they solve different problems.

  • AI agents fetch pages differently

    A 308 redirect broke ChatGPT's retrieval but not Claude's. Same URL, different behavior.

  • Two kinds of AI crawler

    The split between training-style crawlers and user-side fetchers changes how I read a traffic spike.

  • Markdown mirrors

    Serving .md alongside HTML is cheap, and it makes agents parse your pages far more efficiently.

  • Hello, world

    A small home for field notes on the things I'm learning.