Applied AI: Cost Control

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of October 17, 2026. During the pilot, your support agent cost about $40 a month, and nobody looked at the invoice. Three months after launch, the invoice says $58,000, and finance wants to know why. Nobody can say. The usage dashboard shows a total but not which feature, which customer, or which part of the prompt is spending the money. When the team finally digs in, the answer is mu… Read More

Applied AI: Context Engineering

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of October 17, 2026. You start a coding agent on a refactor and give it one firm rule: do not touch the database migrations. For twenty minutes it is excellent. It reads the right files, makes clean changes, and runs the tests after each one. Forty minutes in, it edits a migration. It also retries a fix it already tried and abandoned, and it asks you a question you answered at the sta… Read More