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ThoughtsAugust 11, 2026·7 min read·BekahHW

How to Reduce AI Agent Costs

I audited our agent sessions expecting to find wasteful repeat calls. Repeats were only 4%. The real money was in agents re-reading what they already knew, plus a permission-check tax we could finally put a price on.

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ThoughtsAugust 5, 2026·6 min read·BekahHW

Your Standup Is a Search Query

Your team keeps paying for the same solved problem, and because the tickets all close, nobody sees it happening. Repetition is evidence of a missing team capability, and standup is the detection layer that's been announcing it all along.

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ThoughtsJuly 28, 2026·10 min read·bdougie

Make Something Agents Want

London's bridges are failing under load nobody modeled. Haussmann rebuilt Paris for traffic that hadn't arrived yet. Agent infrastructure faces the same choice: skills, shared team sessions, and reflections are how you build for the traffic that is coming.

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ThoughtsJuly 1, 2026·7 min read·BekahHW

Stop Trusting Skills You Haven't Measured

Evidence gets a skill written. Evaluation keeps it worth keeping. A skill that isn't measured can silently make your agent worse, and, because skills execute, a wrong one does more damage than a wrong doc ever could. Here's why every skill needs an eval, and what a real one looks like.

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ThoughtsJune 30, 2026·6 min read·BekahHW

Stop Writing Skills from Memory

Skills are about to become part of the AI engineering stack. If they don't carry provenance, we're just rebuilding prompt libraries with nicer names. A prompt starts with intention. A skill should start with evidence.

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ProductMay 25, 2026·12 min read·BekahHW

Prompt Caching Is Subsidizing Bad AI Architecture

AI agent workflows are no longer single requests. They are stateful, branching systems that mutate their own context over time. Request logs, traces, transcripts, and bills flatten that structure. Teams need telemetry primitives that preserve session lineage, cache topology, and prompt shape.

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ThoughtsMarch 3, 2026·5 min read·bdougie

Stop Optimizing the Model. Start Securing the Runtime.

Optimizing for model performance while ignoring execution infrastructure is like choosing the fastest race car without checking whether the track has guardrails. The real engineering challenge isn't squeezing more capability out of LLMs—it's figuring out how to actually run them safely.

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ThoughtsFebruary 17, 2026·5 min read·bdougie

The True Cost of Claude Code

If you're paying $100/month but consuming multiples of that in value, you have to start wondering when that's going to catch up to you. The AI coding tool market is following a familiar playbook.

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