Prompt caching is sold as a saving. It can also be the single largest line on an inference invoice, and the failure is quiet, because a cache write succeeds whether or not anything ever reads it back.
Fri Aug 21 2026 · 6 min read · 6 views
Agents degrade as context grows, well before the window is full. Here is the token budget that fixes it, and what each fix costs you in latency.
Thu Aug 20 2026 · 5 min read · 2 views
Anthropic and EPFL showed AI agents passing self-spreading instructions through shared prompt files. The fix is one paragraph, and it works today.
Thu Aug 20 2026 · 5 min read · 1 views
Feature tables do not predict cost. Rank AI agent frameworks in 2026 by churn: what each one broke, when, and whether your code survived it.
Thu Aug 20 2026 · 5 min read · 3 views
The riskiest Pydantic AI v2 migration change raises no exception: openai: model names now hit the Responses API. Here is the safe upgrade path.
Thu Aug 20 2026 · 5 min read · 2 views
MCP server failed to start? Five causes explain almost every case, and stdout logging is the one that hides best. Fix it in the right order.
Thu Aug 20 2026 · 5 min read · 2 views
Most teams can see their agent failing in production. Fewer than half can catch it beforehand.
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 6 min read · 2 views
Most advice on agent memory treats it as a storage question. Pick a vector store, summarize when the window fills, move on. That misses the bill.
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 6 min read · 6 views
Your agent calls the same tool repeatedly and never returns an answer. The advice you will find first is to set maxiterations, which caps your bill without addressing the underlying defect.
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 6 min read · 3 views
AutoGen is not getting new features. The project README states it plainly: "AutoGen is now in maintenance mode. It will not receive new features or enhancements and is community managed going
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 5 min read · 2 views
OpenAI's Assistants API stops working on August 26, 2026. That is six days from today. After that date, calls to /v1/assistants, /v1/threads and /v1/threads/runs return an error, according to OpenAI's
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 5 min read · 2 views
Browsers and chat apps are now happy to hand an AI agent your payment details and let it check out on your behalf. Nobody has told you what happens when the agent buys the wrong running shoes, buys
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 6 min read · 0 views
OpenAI announced Premium seats for ChatGPT Business on August 11, 2026, at $125 per user per month, or $100 per user per month billed annually. A Premium seat carries five times the usage of a
Wed Aug 12 2026 · 5 min read · 12 views
On August 14, 2026, auto mode becomes the default permission mode for new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans. The agent stops asking before each step and simply proceeds, unless the
Wed Aug 12 2026 · 5 min read · 2 views
The Model Context Protocol shipped a new revision on 28 July 2026. The headline everywhere is the same: MCP is stateless now. That part is true.
Thu Aug 06 2026 · 6 min read · 1 views
Can AI agents run a business? One experiment just gave the clearest answer yet, and it isn't about capability — it's about what an agent does when the clock starts running out. Bottleneck Labs handed
Sun Aug 02 2026 · 7 min read · 10 views