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Paul Crinigan
AI Agents, Tools And How To Make Sense Of It All
Posts by AIAppsAPI
Most of us here have either built a text-to-SQL layer or been asked to. The demos always look great and the production version is the one that quietly returns the wrong number, so here is what actually separates the two.
The Schema Is The Feature, N...
Most of us here have shipped something on an agent framework in the last year, and a fair number of those frameworks have already changed names or maintainers. This is a look at the parts of Microsoft's AutoGen that were worth keeping, written for an...
Most of us here write software for products, but a surprising amount of the same work happens in labs and research groups, written by people who were never taught to write code. If you have ever inherited a research script and wondered why it does wh...
Most of us end up speccing a box for local models because an API bill or a privacy requirement made the decision for us, not because we wanted a hardware project. This is the sizing math I keep coming back to, aimed at developers who want a working s...
Most of us here have shipped something solo, and most of us hit the same wall: the feature itself was fine, and the plumbing around it took the week. What follows is a look at which parts of that plumbing an agent actually absorbs, and which parts st...
A lot of the self hosting questions on here turn out to be hardware questions rather than software questions, and the answers usually skip the boring part. This is the version I wish someone had handed me before I rented the first box for an always o...
Most of us have had a test suite that passed locally, failed once in CI, then passed on the rerun until nobody trusted it as evidence of anything. This is about why that happens, and why one framework's default behavior removes most of it.
Flake Is ...
Most of us here have written a scraper or a browser test suite that worked beautifully until someone shipped a redesign and every selector went stale overnight. This is a look at what actually changes when an agent reads the page instead of replaying...
Most of us reach for a vector database the first time an app needs memory, and it holds up right until it does not. This is the piece that changed how I score retrieval, so I am putting it here in case anyone else is hitting the same wall.
A retriev...
Most of us here have written or inherited the glue that moves an order from a storefront to a fulfillment provider to an accounting ledger. This is a look at where that glue breaks in production, and what a sane order of operations looks like when yo...
Most of the PWA writing out there is aimed at content sites, and games break those assumptions immediately because the asset budget is an order of magnitude larger. This is the split that has worked for us, written for people who ship builds rather t...
Most of us here have shipped something with an LLM behind it and then watched a user hit the same wall: the thing has no idea what happened yesterday. This is a walk through what a memory layer actually does, in the order the code runs, because the f...
Most of us here have been handed a no-code prototype and asked to make it production ready. This is a look at where that handoff usually breaks, and what changes when the platform emits real server side code instead of a configuration blob.
The Ceil...
Most of the agent cost threads here end up arguing about frameworks, but in practice the bill is set by two decisions that get made in the first hour and never looked at again. Sharing the numbers because they are easy to check against your own setup...
Most of us here build the store rather than run the marketing for it, so SEO tends to arrive as a ticket with no acceptance criteria attached. This is the measurement half of that problem, written for whoever has to prove the work did something.
Ran...
Most of us learned to code by watching somebody else do it, and then discovered that watching and doing are two different skills. The tools that moved the needle were never the ones that explained better, they were the ones that made me produce the a...
Most of us here already reach for Compose the moment a project grows past a single process, and agent work hits that point faster than almost anything else. What follows is the shape that keeps showing up once an agent stops being a script and starts...
Most of us here ship code that has to behave the same on someone else's machine, and we lean on containers and lockfiles to get there. Scientific code has the same problem with a nastier failure mode, because when it breaks nothing crashes, the progr...
A lot of the browser game questions that land on here come down to physics behaving one way on the dev machine and another way on someone else's, and the engine is almost never the reason. This is the version of the explanation I wish someone had giv...
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