Real patterns for building AI agent systems that don't fall apart. Two-tier architectures, stateless design, orchestration strategies, and what we learned building UserJot's agent infrastructure.

My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed.

In this comprehensive guide, the author discusses MCP, it's components, and takes a deep dive on how to build servers from scratch.