
So much of agent traffic is repetitive. By adding in caching layers, you can both improve your user experience and decrease your bills in one fell swoop.
read moreIn 2025, I did a series of videos that went through five design principles for production-ready AI agents. In my episode about guardrails, I made the statement, “If you can get away with not calling a model, do that.” In the episode about agent tools, I made an argument saying to build idempotent tools and store responses temporarily in case of retries or duplicate requests. I didn’t know it at the time, but I essentially was making the same argument just with different words.

So much of agent traffic is repetitive. By adding in caching layers, you can both improve your user experience and decrease your bills in one fell swoop.
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I built an AI agent with its own identity, MFA, and scoped credentials. It's still not safe. Here's why local is the wrong place to run it.
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AI agents often run with more access than they should. Here's how moving to session-based identity changed how I design and trust autonomous systems.
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"Do as I say, not as I do" applies hard with MCP. We talk a lot about the problems and not enough about practical solutions. The comic is a nudge to shift from critique to construction.
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Multi-agent collaboration sounds great in theory, but the game of telephone between agents can produce unpredictable results. The comic is a reminder to design clear roles, shared context, and guardrails.
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Why trust—not hype—will determine the future of AI tools. Without authority, adoption stalls. Here's what we need to move forward.
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Learn how to track tool usage, success rates, and latency in your MCP server using Kestra workflows, Momento Cache, and the Postman visualizer—no backend code required.
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Should we pump the brakes on MCP? Maybe not—but we do need a CORS-like mechanism to protect APIs from unauthorized model wrapping.
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You can go from thought to functional API in as little as 15 seconds.
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AI won't replace software developers. However, the required skills are going to change drastically.
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