Why Long Prompts Make AI Worse (And How to Fix Them)
Most people, when a prompt stops working, write more. They add clarifications, repeat instructions in...
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Jul 18, 2026Agent Per-Task Cost Calculation [2026]: Retries, Tools, Caching
A spreadsheet-ready expected-cost model for agent workflows that includes retries, tool-call fanout, context growth, and caching. Plus hard budgets you can actually enforce.
Jul 18, 202610 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Jul 8, 2026How to Reduce MCP Token Usage: Designing Context-Efficient Tool Schemas to Cut Agent Brittleness in Production
How to Reduce MCP Token Usage: Designing Context-Efficient Tool Schemas to Cut Agent...
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Jul 13, 2026OpenCode vs Claude Code Token Overhead: 4.7x Gap Tested [2026]
Claude Code sends 33,000 tokens before reading your prompt. OpenCode sends 7,000. Here's the cache economics, the multiplier stack, and the break-even math for teams.
Jul 13, 202616 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Jul 6, 2026The ROI of SDLC (Part 5): Compiling Orchestration-Porting Our Multi-LLM Routing Engine to Pure Go for Low-Latency and Zero-Dependency Performance
Part 5 (bonus): Implementing Multi-LLM Routing in Go for performance ...
Jul 6, 202612 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Jul 5, 2026The ROI of SDLC: Proving the Financial Logic of Multi-Model Orchestration: An Advanced Dual-Layer Routing Implementation (Part 4)
Dealing with financial and failover side! Introduction Static routing rules are...
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Jul 3, 2026The ROI of SDLC: How Bob Orchestration of LLMs Makes Financially Sense (Part 3)-Showtime
Part 3: A theorical implementation of LLM selection and orchestration through a UI ...
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Deep Dive: New Agentic Memory Framework and Its Im…
Originally published at norvik.tech Introduction An in-depth analysis of the new...
Jun 29, 20263 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Jun 5, 2026BAGEN: LLM Agents Waste 44% of Tokens on Tasks They'll Fail
Frontier LLM agents waste 28–64% of tokens on doomed tasks, BAGEN reveals. Learn how budget interval estimation and early stopping work in practice.
Jun 5, 20269 min read0 reactions0 comments
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May 30, 2026Claude Code Best Practices for Vibe Coders: Ship More, Burn Fewer Tokens
Vibe coding with Claude Code can be very fast. Costs increase quickly when token usage is not...
May 30, 202612 min read0 reactions0 comments
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May 25, 2026How to Delegate Claude Code Tasks to Mistral Vibe — Save 2-4x on Tokens
Mistral Vibe costs 3.3x less than Claude Opus 4.7. Delegate mechanical code tasks to save on tokens while keeping Opus for reasoning-heavy work.
May 25, 20267 min read0 reactions0 comments
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May 5, 2026Caveman Review: The Claude Code Skill That Cuts 65% of Tokens
Originally published on andrew.ooo — visit the original for any updates, code snippets that aged...
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