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Your agent is repeating itself
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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In 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.
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Local agents scare me
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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Your AI agents are a security nightmare
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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Postman might be my new favorite IDE
AI can generate APIs quickly, but maintaining structure is harder. Here’s how I used Postman to enforce contracts, tests, and CI across the API lifecycle.
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I’m a software engineer and writer focused on building practical cloud and AI systems with community.
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