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Why I Stopped Optimizing My AI Agent and Started Shipping It Your AI Agent Is Bleeding Money — here’s how to fix it before it costs you more. In the first quarter of this year, I spent 90 days tuning an AI agent. I rewrote its prompt three times. Changed the memory backend twice. Added … Read more
How I Built a $0/Month Blog Stack From My Home Lab I opened my Cloudflare billing page last week. The number at the bottom was $0.00. Not “we will charge you on the 30th” zero. Actual zero. My blog served 50,000 sessions in the previous month. 1.2 TB of traffic. Two cron jobs a day. … Read more
The 3 Bash Aliases That Saved Me 10 Hours Last Week If you like terminal productivity hacks, you might also enjoy my PostgreSQL admin tool stack and how to resize an Ubuntu VM disk using similar command-line techniques. I added three aliases to my .bashrc last Tuesday. By Friday, my shell history said I had … Read more
When AI Agents Eat Your Server: Taming Rogue Processes I was debugging a CI pipeline when Nginx stopped responding. htop showed the culprit: a Python script spinning at 99.8% CPU, and another process that had swallowed 6GB of RAM before the kernel gave up. The script was an experimental AI agent stuck in a loop … Read more
GPT-5.5 on AWS Bedrock — What AI Builders Need to Know OpenAI just made a move that changes the AI infrastructure landscape: GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex are now available on Amazon Bedrock. This is the first time OpenAI models are natively available inside AWS. No proxy, no separate API key, no cross-cloud latency. If you … Read more
How My AI Agent Almost Broke the ERP Database A few weeks ago, my AI junior dev agent did something that made my stomach drop. It was fixing a bug in the inventory module — a simple off-by-one error in a stock calculation query. The agent wrote the fix, opened a PR, and I approved … Read more