Field Notes

Deep dives, teardown notes, and hard-won lessons from building Synapse and helping engineers level up.

A better way of tool calling for AI agents

Why asking an AI to write a program is better than asking it to press buttons—and how the Model Context Protocol makes it viable.

A better way of tool calling for AI agents

Stay in the loop

Synapse is your AI systems mentor.

It asks the kind of questions senior engineers do, sketches diagrams with you, and forces you to defend every architectural choice so your ideas are ready for interviews or production reviews.