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Yesterday I tried to demo Quarkus Agent MCP with IBM Bob.
Podman was not running, the app leaned on Dev Services, and Bob started reading an infrastructure failure like it might be a code problem. Annoying demo. Useful lesson.
I wrote up what Quarkus Agent MCP actually adds, and how that failure already turned into a better tool.
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I tested a setup that moves IBM Bob off the laptop and into a remote Linux workspace over SSH.
The interesting part was not the happy path. It was all the little things around it: SSH keys, host aliases, locked accounts, amd64 vs arm64, and how Bob actually starts its remote server.
I wrote it up step by step:
https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/ibm-bob-remote-ssh-podman-macos-linux#Java #Linux #SSH #Podman #MacOS #DevTools #RemoteDevelopment #IBMBob
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Most teams still treat system prompts like internal docs for humans.
That breaks fast with coding agents.
If the prompt is weak, the agent does not fail politely. It invents files, skips discovery, and makes risky edits with too much confidence.
I wrote down a practical way to review these prompts before they hit production: grounding, continuity, safety, decomposition, and efficiency.
https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/bob-meta-scorecard-agent-system-prompts-production
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Most teams still treat system prompts like internal docs for humans.
That breaks fast with coding agents.
If the prompt is weak, the agent does not fail politely. It invents files, skips discovery, and makes risky edits with too much confidence.
I wrote down a practical way to review these prompts before they hit production: grounding, continuity, safety, decomposition, and efficiency.
https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/bob-meta-scorecard-agent-system-prompts-production