236 articles
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An LLM router picks which model handles each API request, and most teams overbuild one. Five routing strategies, four runnable Python routers, and the worked cost math behind a 60% spend cut.
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Attach a token count and a dollar estimate to every LLM request, aggregate by model and team, and alert before the invoice spikes. 5 metrics, 3 setups.
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The custom software procurement process in 7 steps, from business case to accepted delivery, with the RFP skeleton, vendor scorecard, and 9 contract clauses that protect your budget. Written from the vendor side of the table.
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Buzz is Block's self-hosted workspace where humans and AI agents share the same rooms, built on a Nostr relay so every message, patch, and approval is one signed event. Here's how it actually works.
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A calendar-anchored, copy-pasteable checklist covering MVP scoping through your first week live, with Apple and Google Play guideline numbers cited directly instead of paraphrased.
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BM25 finds your SKUs and error codes; vector search finds the paraphrased question that never uses those exact words. Here's how Reciprocal Rank Fusion combines both, with real 2025-2026 benchmark numbers and vendor-neutral Python code.
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MCP revision 2026-07-28 removed the initialize handshake, renumbered three error codes, and made every request self-contained. Here are seven deterministic conformance assertions you can run on every push, plus the behavioral, flakiness, security, and CI layers that sit on top of them.
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Most SaaS metrics guides quote thresholds set in 2021 and cite nobody. This one publishes nine metrics with the CY-2025 medians from 2026-edition reports, the top-quartile cuts, the sample size behind every figure, and six metrics to stop tracking.
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Most PRD templates hand you an empty form and walk away. This one ships as copy-pasteable markdown, fills all 12 sections in for a complete invoice-portal build, and shows how the same spec changes when an AI coding agent is the one reading it.
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Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026. It more than doubles Opus 4.8 on Frontier-Bench and holds Opus pricing, but loses a few tests to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Here's the benchmark table, the pricing, and a switch/wait/stay call.
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Most launch checklists tell you what to secure and never show you how. This one ships the code: 40 pre-launch checks across secrets, auth, tenant isolation, dependencies, headers, and monitoring, plus the miss we catch in almost every review.
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A code-first guide to building a HubSpot API integration for a custom internal tool. Private app token auth, a first create-contact call in Node and Python, a signature-validated webhook receiver, 429 handling, and an honest build-vs-hire framework.
