Notes

A collection of recent notes

• The Dark Side of MCP Servers

  — June 12, 2026
• A builder's-eye look at where MCP's security model breaks - tool poisoning, prompt injection, sandboxing, allow lists, and supply-chain rug pulls - with Nate Barbettini.
• AgentsArcadeMCPSecurityTalk

• From UX to MX: Designing Software for Machines (MCP Dev Summit Keynote)

  — June 9, 2026
• My opening keynote at MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru on the shift from designing software for human users to designing for the machine experience.
• AgentsArcadeKeynoteMCPTalk

• Agent Library is Open Source (Repo + CLI + MCP Server)

  — May 5, 2026
• The Agent Library code is on GitHub - a personal knowledge base for agents with a search/retrieval system, an MCP server, a CLI, and preconfigured local models.
• AgentsArcadeMCPMemoryOpen-Source

• Arcade Tools Are Now in LangSmith Fleet

  — April 7, 2026
• LangChain added Arcade.dev to LangSmith Fleet - giving agents access to Arcade's 7,500+ agent-optimized tools through a single secure gateway.
• AgentsArcadeLangChainMCPTool-calling

• The Tool Abstraction Problem: Lessons from Building 1000+ MCP Tools

  — April 2, 2026
• My MCP Dev Summit North America talk on why the hard part of agent tools isn't the code - it's finding the right abstraction between thin API wrappers and over-specified task tools.
• AgentsArcadeMCPTalkTool-calling

• Coding Agents Are the Foundation for Every Agent You'll Ever Build

  — March 27, 2026
• An AAIF article based on my joint talk with Harrison Chase (LangChain) - coding agents already solved persistent state, tool access, and iteration, so making them better makes every agent better.
• AAIFAgentsArcadeCoding-AgentsLangChain

• Building Agentic Tools for Production

  — December 10, 2025
• MLOps Community talk on building agentic tools that survive production - packaging, versioning, testing, and authorization.
• AgentsArcadeMCPTalkTool-calling

• Codestory Podcast: Why We Started Arcade

  — October 15, 2025
• Background on Sam Partee and the founding story of Arcade.
• ArcadeFounderPodcastTalk

• This New Way Podcast: AI Agents Run Your Inbox, Calendar & Socials

  — July 30, 2025
• Discussing AI agents handling communications and scheduling with Arcade.
• AgentsArcadePodcastTalk

• Sam Partee & Harrison Chase at theCUBE NYSE

  — May 28, 2025
• theCUBE interview from the New York Stock Exchange with John Furrier, alongside Harrison Chase of LangChain, on AI-native infrastructure and securing agents in production.
• AgentsArcadeInterviewLangChainSecurity

• What is MCP? LLM Tools and Where We Are Going with Agents

  — May 21, 2025
• A discussion on MCP, tool permissions, security, agent memory, and where agents are headed.
• AgentsMCPSecurityTalkTools

• The MOST IMPORTANT Conversation Around MCP and A2A

  — May 21, 2025
• Panel on MCP and A2A protocols
• A2AAgentsMCPPanelTalk

• WSJ: AI Agents Face One Last, Big Obstacle

  — May 17, 2025
• A Wall Street Journal piece naming the exact problem Arcade was founded to solve - agents can reason, but acting securely on a user's behalf is the wall.
• AgentsArcadeAuthorizationMCPPress

• How to Make Useful AI Agents

  — May 17, 2025
• Building agents that get work done
• AgentsArcadeTalk

• LangChain Announces Open Agent Platform Powered by Arcade.dev

  — May 14, 2025
• LangChain's Open Agent Platform (OAP) uses Arcade.dev for secure tool calling and agent authorization.
• AgentsArcadeLangChainMCPTool-calling

• The Story of Arcade: Press & Profiles

  — April 10, 2025
• A roundup of profiles and investor write-ups on the founding of Arcade by Alex Salazar and me - how failing fast turned into a company about making agents actually do work.
• ArcadeFoundersPressStartup

• Unlocking AI Agents: Fixing Authorization

  — March 14, 2025
• AI in Production talk on agent authorization
• AgentsArcadeAuthorizationTalk

• AI Agents: How to Make Them Useful

  — January 30, 2025
• Practical strategies to make AI agents actually useful.
• AgentsProductivityTalk

• Llama 3.2 Tool Calling

  — August 2, 2024
• Llama 3.2 Tool Calling
• LLMLLamaTool-Calling

• Lambda Pricing

  — April 15, 2024
• Lambda Pricing
• AWSDeveloperServerless

• Sam Partee on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

  — January 29, 2024
• InfoQ Podcast on RAG
• LLMPodcastRAG

• RedisVL: The Redis Vector Library for Python

  — August 15, 2023
• RedisVL is a dedicated Python client library for using Redis as a vector database - the project my team built at Redis to make vector search and RAG easy.
• Open-SourcePythonRAGRedisVector-similarity

• Vector Similarity Search with Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise

  — May 17, 2023
• A walkthrough, co-authored with Microsoft, of using embeddings and vector similarity search on Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise.
• AIAzureRAGRedisVector-similarity

• Slides LLM in Production Talk: Vector Databases and Large Language Models

  — April 13, 2023
• Slides for my talk at LLM in Production 2023
• LLMRedisTalkVector-similarity

• Slides for NVIDIA GTC Talk: Improving Data Systems for Merlin and Triton

  — March 23, 2023
• Slides for my talk at NVIDIA GTC 2023
• Feature-StoreRecommendation-systemsRedisTalkVector-similarity

• Turning Redis into a Composable ML Data Platform

  — March 15, 2023
• MLOps Coffee Sessions 111
• MLOpsRedisTalk

• Redis Vector Search Engineering Lab Review

  — December 8, 2022
• A recap, co-written with Tyler Hutcherson, of the first Redis Vector Similarity Search (VSS) Engineering Lab using the arXiv scholarly papers dataset.
• AIRAGRedisSearchVector-similarity

• Brief Primer on Parallel Programming

  — October 20, 2022
• The "I have 10 minutes" introduction to parallel programming with examples in Python and C.
• DeveloperHPCPython

• Vector Databases and the Future of AI-powered Search

  — October 3, 2022
• Talk on vector databases and AI-powered search
• AIRedisSearchTalkVector-similarity

• Vector Databases and AI-powered Search

  — September 13, 2022
• Introduction to vector embeddings, search, and storage with examples.
• RedisTalkVector-similarity

• Using Machine Learning at Scale in Numerical Simulations with SmartSim

  — June 6, 2022
• Published in the Journal of Computational Science, this paper shows how SmartSim was used to augment an ocean model (MOM6) with an AI-based, eddy kinetic energy parameterization to improve the climatology of the model. This particular implementation improved the RMSE of the objective metric by 20% compared to the reference simulation.
• AIClimate-ModelingDeep-LearningHPCPaperSmartsim

• Online Analytics and ML for HPC Simulations - Pangeo Showcase

  — June 16, 2021
• Pangeo Showcase talk about using SmartSim for online analytics, processing, and inference for HPC simulations. Pangeo is awesome. Great group of folks.
• HPCSmartSimTalk

• CrayLabs @ RedisConf 2021

  — June 3, 2021
• The talk that Matthew Ellis and I gave at RedisConf in 2021 about SmartSim and it’s usage of Redis
• HPCSmartSimTalk

• Generative Teaching Networks

  — May 31, 2021
• This paper explores Generative Teaching Networks (GTN), which are similar to GANs but instead of compete, two networks cooperate on a task. With applications in multiple domains, GTNs can aid supervised learning training times, learn Reinforcement Learning tasks like cart-pole, and perform Neural Architecture Search (NAS).
• AIDeep-LearningPaper-Notes

• Threading in Python

  — January 1, 2021
• Threading in Python can sometimes be very confusing and frustrating. Understanding when to use the Threading module can make things much easier. These notes give some light background and some examples of good threading usage.
• DeveloperPythonTutorial

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