Stop Treating AI Like Magic: Why Context Engineering Beats Bigger Models

Smaller models with a disciplined context rival flagships at a fraction of the cost

#Context Engineering

Duncan Anderson·Sep 23, 2025

The 4 Levels of AI Agents: When to Use Workflows vs Autonomous Systems

Stop over-engineering simple problems and under-engineering complex ones

#AI Agents

Duncan Anderson·Jul 23, 2025

Barnacle Labs Appoints Dr. Oliver Bogler as Scientific Advisor

Distinguished Cancer Researcher and Federal Program Leader to Accelerate AI-Driven Scientific Discovery

#Company

Duncan Anderson·Jul 15, 2025

Why We're Going All-In on Forward Deployed Engineers for AI Projects

Forward Deployed Engineers help to scope and define new projects

#Company

Duncan Anderson·Jan 20, 2025

Me and an AI: Building a New Website Together

Our new website was built by Claude and o1. A human (me) oversaw its construction, but AI wrote every line of code.

#Company

Duncan Anderson·Feb 3, 2024

Beyond Data Hoovering: The Nuanced Reality of Training Large Language Models (LLMs)

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) is an evolving science — or, perhaps, an art form. In this post I set out to shed some light on exactly what is meant by training a model.

#AI-Training