Signal Over Noise

Signal Over Noise

May 2026

What May 2026 Told Us About the AI Tools That Actually Ship
Thirty days, thirty posts, and the patterns that survived contact with real work.
 • Justin Wilson
The Agent Framework Wars: A Practitioner Scorecard
Six frameworks, four criteria that actually matter in production, and the honest verdict after a month of writing about them.
 • Justin Wilson
Composio: The Tool Registry That Wants to Be the npm of Agent Capabilities
A hosted catalog of 1000+ toolkits with auth handled for you.
 • Justin Wilson
Dify: The Visual Builder for People Who Don't Want to Write Agent Code
A node-based LLMOps platform with 140k stars and one honest question to answer.
 • Justin Wilson
Agents Should Be Distributed Like Libraries, Not Like SaaS
The marketplaces want to be the App Store of agents.
 • Justin Wilson
Shipping Skills as npm Packages: A Workflow That Actually Scales
The package manager already solved this problem.
 • Justin Wilson
Stop Building Agents. Build Skills.
The agent is a loop.
 • Justin Wilson
Claude Skills: The Most Underrated Feature in the Agent Ecosystem
A folder with a markdown file, and somehow it solves the problem every other vendor is still trying to ship around.
 • Justin Wilson
Built-In Tools Are the Whole Game
A loop with nothing to call is a chatbot.
 • Justin Wilson
DSPy: The Stanford Project That Treats Prompts as a Compiler Problem
The prompt is not the artifact.
 • Justin Wilson
Your RAG Pipeline Is an Agent Now, Whether You Know It or Not
An engineer walked me through his “RAG pipeline” last week and, by the third minute, had described query rewriting, intent classification, multi-hop…
 • Justin Wilson
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