Blocking AI crawlers earns you nothing. Here's how to price them instead
Disallow: GPTBot is a wall. Walls don't pay rent, and the crawlers that matter most either ignore...
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7 things I learned trying to stop LLM API bills from silently exploding
My first real LLM bill surprise wasn't dramatic. No infinite loop, no viral spike. A retry policy I'd...
Why the codebase is your biggest context bill, and why output compression doesn't fix it
When people think about reducing AI coding costs, they usually think about the model's output: fewer...
Stop sending net-30 reminders: predicting when a client *actually* pays
Every freelancer knows the invoice that goes into the void. You did the work. You sent the PDF. "Net...
Test Mobile AI Input by Capability, Not Device Category
A capability matrix covers keyboards, styluses, foldables, voice, and interrupted networks better than phone-versus-tablet assumptions.
Describe your website once, make it usable by any AI
If you have tried to make a website work with AI assistants recently, you have run into the...
[GCP Billing & Vertex AI] Solving Gemini Cost Allocation in a Single Project: Vertex AI Dynamic Billing Labels in Action
Pain Point: How to Accurately Allocate Gemini API Costs Within the Same Project? When...
Hybrid Local + Cloud LLMs in 2026: When to Use Ollama and When to Pay for Fable
I run a local model and I pay for cloud models, and the most common question I get is "which one...
My Experience at Code on JVM Chennai: From DSA in Production to Building AI Products
Recently, I attended the Code on JVM Chennai meetup, and it was an incredible learning experience. As...
InsightsTrack + Pulse: I taught Claude Desktop to read my web analytics (via MCP)
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built InsightsTrack is...
Your AGENTS.md Needs an Executable Contract, Not More Advice
Keep repository instructions honest by testing required paths, approved commands, and review dates in CI with a small shell-free Node.js checker.
I built a personal "Agentic OS" that runs my DBA work — with approval gates, audit trails, and a $0.01 morning brief
A local-first orchestration layer for AI agents, built by an Oracle DBA who doesn't trust anything that touches a database. Kernel, permission tiers, MCP tools, live dashboard.
5 Lessons From Letting My AI Coding Agent Open Its Own Pull Requests
TL;DR I let my autonomous coding agent open real pull requests without a human in the...
You Built an App With AI. Is It Safe to Publish?
The six things to check before you hit “publish” — in plain English, no coding required. You...
26 Repos in 29 Days With an AI Pipeline: What Actually Broke
This was originally published on the LK Forge blog, where the commit chart is interactive and you...
#12 The First Time I Opened a Door to the Outside Internet
For months, all of my tools lived inside the building. They ran on a small server in the hospital,...
I Built a CLI That Scans AI Agents Against the OWASP Agentic Top 10
I spend my weekdays thinking about liability. Not the fun kind — the regulatory kind. I'm a...
I Open-Sourced My AI Agent Framework: Agents With Character, Rules, and the Ability to Build Their Own Tools
I'm a lawyer. I write contracts, not Python — except I also write Python, because the legal mindset...
What's the Difference Between RAG and Agent Memory?
RAG retrieves from a fixed document corpus at query time; agent memory stores what the agent learned from interactions and updates it over time. Read-only retrieval vs read-write l...
What Your AI Coding Agent Looks Like to a SIEM
Sophos ran a week of endpoint telemetry on Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. 56.2% of blocking hits were credential access. The agents were working correctly.
Anatomy of a Full RAG Application: Every Concept, One Self-Hosted Stack
Parsing, chunking, hybrid search with RRF, reranking, knowledge graphs, token budgeting, and parallelism — every layer of a production-grade RAG app, with real code.
AI Fluency Series · Project 1: Streaming Chat Or: how I spent a day proving a bug I was causing myself.
Disclaimer: a dumb little start to leveling up my AI fluency. Nothing fancy, no grand architecture,...
Building HemoConnect: An AI-Powered Companion for Thalassemia Management
When managing a chronic condition like Thalassemia, patients and their caregivers often face a...
Agent works one repo at a time. Work doesn't.
I support features across multiple repos. Backend, contract, frontend — three repos, one feature....