Is a Consumer AI Agent Worth It? $550 Saved, $64 Wasted
Wired's consumer AI agent trial audited. $550 saved, $64 wasted, with per-task economics, failure modes, security risks, and the adopt-versus-build call.
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AI Agents vs Workflows? Count Your Branches First
AI agents vs workflows: enumerate your branches, price each runtime decision point, and promote to an agent only when the branches can't be known ahead.
LLM Prompt Caching Can Cut Input Costs Up to 90%
LLM prompt caching can cut agent loop input costs up to 90%. Compare OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Bedrock on TTLs, breakpoints, and real savings math.
AI Agent Monitoring Beyond the Dashboard
AI agent monitoring fails when dashboards track requests, not resolutions. This taxonomy maps silent failure modes to the signals that catch them.
Devin GPT-6 Astra Self-Testing Moves Review to Evidence
Devin GPT-6 Astra self-testing shifts code review from reading diffs to auditing evidence. Here is the pattern, its failure modes, and audit criteria.
Meta's AI Second Brain Runs on a Knowledge Supply Chain
Meta's AI second brain shows why agents live or die on the knowledge supply chain, not the retrieval stack, and what small teams can copy first.
GPT-6 Astra Pricing at $6 an Hour, Audited
GPT-6 Astra pricing pitches an AI engineer under $6 an hour. We audit the real per-task costs, hidden token overhead, and what saturated benchmarks skip.
AI Agent Memory Lessons From LinkedIn's Hiring Assistant
AI agent memory lessons from LinkedIn's hiring assistant. This four-layer teardown covers token payback math, decay rules, and privacy classes to copy.
AI Agent Token Usage Overtook Humans on OpenRouter
OpenRouter data shows AI agent token usage passed human traffic on February 6, 2025, with 14x growth and ~70 percent cached. Here is how to audit your mix.
The Real OpenAI Ultrafast Mode Speedup, Workload by Workload
OpenAI Ultrafast mode promises up to 14x speed, but decode is only part of request latency. Here is the math for chat, RAG, tool loops, and voice agents.
LangChain vs LangGraph for Stateful AI Agent Orchestration
The langchain vs langgraph decision is a shift from stateless DAGs to cyclic state machines for building stateful autonomous AI agents in production.
ChatGPT Business Premium Pricing Decodes Agent Token Math
ChatGPT Business Premium pricing at $125 reveals the real cost of agentic AI. Reverse-engineer the token math to set your own agent price floor.