#AI
5 articles — newest first.
- 9 min read
Budgeting the Claude Context Window Before It Truncates You
The Claude context window is one token budget shared by prompt, tools, thinking, and reply. I count tokens and guard it in code so a reply never truncates.
- 6 min read
The AI-Native Portfolio: Landing Lead Roles
A portfolio that lists 'used ChatGPT' reads junior. One that demonstrates systems architecture — RAG, agents, guardrails, latency budgets — reads like the lead they're trying to hire. Here's how to build the second one.
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The Day ChatGPT Changed Full-Stack Engineering
Late 2022 dropped the cost of writing software overnight. Why the bottleneck moved from syntax to judgment — and why MERN engineers were positioned to win.
- 7 min read
When Logs Lie: Tracing LLM Agents with OpenTelemetry
The live RAG concierge on this site ships a span per step — tokens, cost, latency in OpenTelemetry — which is how I trace LLM agents, not guess from logs.
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Prompt Caching: the Ordering Discipline That Cuts the Bill
I treat prompt caching as FinOps: order the static prefix first, keep it byte-stable, and stop re-paying to re-read an 8K preamble on every request.