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Token Limits: The Hidden Cost of Building Production-Grade AI Workflows
I built a sophisticated agentic AI workflow that produces amazing code—then hit token limits hard. Here's how I'm solving the economics of AI-assisted development with observability, model selection, and quality gates.
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Quality Gates: Why Your AI Agents Are Only As Good As Your Tickets
After analyzing dozens of AI-generated pull requests, I discovered two critical quality gates that dramatically improve agent output — and built them into my workflow.
Read postBuilding at the Frontier: How I Built My Own AI Agent Orchestrator and Finished a Two-Week Sprint in Three Days
I built Sandstorm Desktop, a cross-platform Electron app that orchestrates multiple AI agents through Docker containers — and used it to complete a two-week sprint in three days.
Read postSandstorm: Multi-Agent Containerization for the Rest of Us
How I'm building an open source tool that lets individual developers safely run multiple AI agents in parallel using Docker-based isolation — no cloud infrastructure required.
Read postHow I Rebuilt My i18n Libraries to Scale Across Four Programming Languages
What started as updating some stale Ruby gems evolved into a complete architectural rethink — separating translation data from implementation across Ruby, JavaScript, Go, and Rust.
Read postThe Death of Hand-Coding: Why 2026 Is the Year of AI Builder Factories
I haven't written code in two months. And I'm more productive than ever. We've entered the AI builder factory era — your job isn't writing code anymore, it's running the factory that produces it.
Read postThe Script Solution: Why I Make LLMs Write Code Instead of Doing the Work
LLMs aren't deterministic. Ask the same question twice and you'll get different answers. Here's a simple pattern that fixes that: stop asking the LLM to do the analysis — make it write the script instead.
Read postHow I Built a Battle Card Game in 30 Days Using Agentic AI
AI wrote 100% of the code. I did everything else. Here's what agentic AI development actually looks like in practice.
Read postWhat I Mean When I Say Agentic AI Changes Everything
Most developers are using AI wrong. They're hand-holding it through every step. Agentic AI is different, and it's transforming what it means to be a software engineer.
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