Dev.to tutorial Jul 13

The bug was in my beliefs, not my code

An ARC Prize 2026 builder's log entry. I spent two work sessions reasoning from two 'facts' about my own code that were both false. Checking them against the artifact took an hour....

Dev.to tutorial Jul 13

Five ways your LLM cost tracking is lying to you

Streaming usage, cache token semantics, serverless flushes, cancelled streams, stale price tables — the five metering bugs I hit building LLM cost tracking, with fixes for each.