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AI Agents
104 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.
- 5 min read
Meta Employees Consumed 60T AI Tokens in 30 Days: 3 Budget Caps
Meta employees burned 60T AI tokens in 30 days — ~$50K per head, no cap set. Your agent bill is on the same curve. The 3 budget controls Meta skipped, plus guardrails that catch overruns early.
- 6 min read
9 Out of 428 LLM API Routers Are Injecting Malicious Code Right Now
Researchers tested 428 LLM API routers. Nine were actively injecting malicious code. One drained ETH from a private key. Here is what this means for your AI agents.
- 3 min read
AI Chose Nukes 95% of the Time. Here's What That Means for Your Agents.
Three AI safety papers came out this week. Reading them back to back was jarring. If you run agents in production, this is worth 5 minutes.
- 7 min read
OpenClaw AI Agent Review 2026: 3 Real Tests, 1 Verdict
Is OpenClaw production-ready? We ran 3 real workloads — RAG, tool-calling, multi-step chains — against LangGraph. Here's exactly where it wins and where it breaks. (2026)
- 8 min read
We Built Fowler's AI Feedback Flywheel (Before He Named It)
Martin Fowler named the AI feedback flywheel. We built the same system independently. Here's our exact implementation — vault, agents, guardrails, and weekly cadence.
- 8 min read
AI Agent Cost in 2026: $500 DIY to $150K Enterprise [Breakdown]
Vendor quotes for AI agents run 3-5x reality. We surveyed 40+ builds — from $500 DIY weekends to $150K enterprise rollouts. Here's the real 2026 cost breakdown by complexity tier.
- 7 min read
How to Hire an AI Agent Developer (2026 Guide)
The market is flooded with people claiming to build AI agents. Here's how to tell who can actually ship one—and what questions to ask before you pay anything.
- 6 min read
Google Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol: Interoperability Guide (2026)
Need agents from different vendors to talk? Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol explained: what it does, when it ships in 2026, and the 3-line config that makes your stack A2A-ready today.
- 6 min read
How a 9-Person Startup Replaced Its Dev Team With AI
JustPaid ran 7 AI agents 24/7 with OpenClaw, shipped 10 features in a month for $4K/week. Here is the real cost breakdown and what it means for you.
- 8 min read
6 Agent Patterns From Claude Code's Leaked Source
Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code's source. I read through it. Here are 6 architecture patterns that are changing how I build agents for clients.
- 7 min read
Prompt Injection Attacks on AI Agents: What Business Owners Need to Know
AI agents can be hijacked through the content they read. Here is what prompt injection looks like in production, why your existing security stack will not catch it, and what to build instead.
- 6 min read
What Is MCP? The Protocol That Makes AI Agents Actually Useful for Business
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard that lets AI agents talk to your real tools — databases, APIs, files — without custom glue code. Here's what it is, how it works, and whether you actually need it.
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