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AI Agents
99 posts on ai agents — guides and lab notes from real runs on hardware we own. New posts land here automatically. Start anywhere, or grab the copy-paste prompts that ship with them.
- 8 min read
Designing for Agency: Building Trustworthy AI Agents in a Shifting World
As the AI industry heats up with legal battles and ethical debates, discover how to engineer AI agents that prioritize user control, privacy, and adaptability, ensuring they remain valuable on your hardware.
- 4 min read
Enterprise AI just shifted: Claude +128%, OpenAI -8%. What it means if you're building.
SaaStr data shows enterprise AI share shifting hard toward Claude. The lesson isn't pick Claude. It's stop hard-coding one vendor.
- 4 min read
AI software runs on 17% margins. SaaS runs on 70%. The token bill is the problem.
AI-native software is shipping at roughly 17% gross margins while traditional SaaS sits near 70%. The token bill ate the unit economics. Here's what's actually broken and how to claw margin back.
- 4 min read
One Agent Skill, Three Registries: PyPI, Claude, and skills.sh
Agent skills are becoming a distribution layer for developer tools. The practical move is one source package that can show up in PyPI, Claude-style skills, and skills.sh.
- 4 min read
April 2026: Every AI Subscription Plan Broke for Builders
April 2026 made one thing clear: chat subscriptions are best-effort tools. Builders need API-level budgets, rate limits, and kill switches when the work matters.
- 4 min read
Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than APIs. Here's When To Use Each.
Reflex.dev measured a 45x token cost gap between computer-use agents and structured APIs for the same task. Here's why, and the decision rule that keeps your bill sane.
- 6 min read
Your AI Agent Will Eventually Delete Prod
PocketOS lost their production database backups to a Cursor agent. Here's what runtime spend rails actually catch, what they don't, and the layered defense your agents need before production.
- 5 min read
7% of vibe-coded apps ship with wide-open databases
A 1,764-app audit found 7% had open Supabase databases and 15% of Bolt apps had hardcoded secrets. The fix takes ten minutes.
- 7 min read
Uber Burned Its 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code by April
No metering, no per-team caps, no dashboards. Uber spent its entire 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in just 4 months. The 5-step pattern behind every runaway AI bill — and the fix that stops it.
- 6 min read
MCP vs Skills: a practical decision guide for builders
I need my agent to do X. Skill or MCP? A short decision rule with worked examples for small-business agent builders.
- 4 min read
Before you ship an AI agent for a client, prove these 5 controls.
Before you ship an AI agent for a client, prove budget caps, loop detection, alert proof, remote kill, and retained incident history.
- 4 min read
Your AI agent does not need observability. It needs a kill switch.
A trace tells you what happened. A kill switch changes what happens next.
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