Where your LLM tokens actually go
The user's question is the smallest thing you send.
Most conversations about LLM cost start with the price list. Dollars per million tokens, this model against that one, which provider dropped prices last quarter. It's a reasonable place to start....
Every engineering team I talk to has sped up code generation by three to four
times. Almost none of them have changed how they hire.
We still interview the way we did in 2019. Write this function. Solve this on
a whiteboard. Show me you can produce working code under pressure.
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Your AI Agent Doesn't Have a Model Problem
Every way an agent fails in production already has a name. Most of us were fixing these long before LLMs showed up.
I've lost count of how many versions of this story I've heard in the last year.
The agent works beautifully on someone's...
Every migration horror story starts the same way: "we'll do the switch over the weekend."
Friday night, freeze the old system, run the export, run the import, point everything at the new database, go home. Monday morning you find out something didn't come across, and by then you...
Most AI support bots fail for one boring reason: they answer when they should shut up.
Everyone worries about the model being wrong. That's not usually what sinks these projects. What sinks them is a bot that gives a confident, fluent, completely made-up answer to a customer —...
