Token usage can tell you a lot about what happened between the start of a task and the final answer. An agent may complete the task successfully, but only after searching the documentation several times, retrying failed steps, or pulling large amounts of irrelevant tool output into context. Looking…
A txHash Is a Bearer Token — We Bound Ours to the Wallet That Paid On Arc's self-settle payment rail the buyer broadcasts the USDC transferWithAuthorization themselves and hands the server the transaction hash as proof. Convenient — and a bearer credential: the txHash sits in the public mempool…
Consider a library maintainer with a red CI job and a thirty-minute window before a demo. A teammate pasted a .env file, a customer export, and the failing workflow into a remote agent session and asked for a deploy fix. The diff came back tidy. The session log still held the export two hours…
If you've ever bought a new meme coin "early" and then found that a few wallets already held a big share of the supply, you've met snipers and bundlers. That outcome isn't luck. It follows from how open launchpads work and how transactions get ordered on-chain. This post walks through the mechanics…
TL;DR: a startup SaaS should choose a low-cost AI chatbot backend by enforcing two budgets on its own support-ticket set: a quality floor for routing decisions and a latency ceiling for the customer-facing reply. Per-token pricing matters only after a candidate clears both. For a one-person SaaS…
In AI circles, conversations about compute shortages are as common as talk of the weather. As agentic workflows threaten to multiply token consumption further, it’s little wonder that talk has shifted from securing GPUs to optimizing them. At a recent panel, The Information’s Phoebe Liu sat down…
Panduan API Rate‑Limit: Membangun Local Proxy dengan Token Bucket Banyak layanan API menerapkan rate limit untuk melindungi server dari overload. Ketika aplikasi Anda melebihi batas, respons 429 Too Many Requests muncul dan proses terhenti. Solusi klasik adalah retry dengan exponential backoff…
I argued last week that an AI SDK call with no bounds is three CWEs in one missing config object . Fair question back: does anyone actually ship that? So I linted for it. 20,004 source files across 14 public repositories, 474 of which import the Vercel AI SDK, 116 of which contain a real generation…