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Would You Drive a Ferrari to the Corner Shop? Cut Your AI Costs with Smart Model Routing
Are skyrocketing AI bills eating into your budget? Learn why using frontier models for simple coding and utility tasks is like driving a supercar to buy milk, and how smart model routing can cut compute costs by up to 10x.
Taming the Slop: How I Ship Multi-Month Features in a Week with Agent Loops
Tired of AI generating unmaintainable code slop? Discover how orchestrating 8 to 12 concurrent Claude and Codex loops with spec-driven development allowed me to ship a multi-month feature in just one week.
Chasing the Perfect Project: How I Escaped Scope Creep and Rebuilt The Foundry
Trying to build the 'perfect' open-source project to gain stars and build a community can easily become a scope-creep trap. Here is how testing my CLI tool in a constrained work environment forced me to strip away the bloat and build something genuinely useful.
The Great Context Trap: Why Your AI Memory is Broken (And How to Fix It)
We are bleeding our project context to cloud providers every time we open a new chat window. Discover how the Foundry ecosystem and the Model Context Protocol enable portable, sovereign AI memory that finally puts you back in control.
The Next AI Battlefield Isn't Intelligence. It's TPS.
The era of chasing 'smarter' AI is over. As foundational models hit the point of diminishing returns, the real competitive advantage has shifted to high-speed inference and semantic governance.
The Word for AI's Worst Output Is Slop
Code that works but is structurally wrong is the silent killer of AI-assisted projects. Discover how moving from prompt-based instructions to governance-as-a-service, or the Foundry, eliminates AI-generated slop.
A Portfolio That Grew Into a Blog: Rebuilding on Next.js
Discover how I transformed my static portfolio into a server-side rendered blog using an AI-orchestrated fleet. I detail the architecture, the governance layer, and the surprising economic reality of using multi-agent workflows for framework migrations.