Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents: When to Build an Approval Gate (and When Not To)
Updated for 2026. The decision framework I use to decide when a production AI agent needs a human approval step — and when adding one silently kills adoption.
Jul 22, 2026
AI Agent ROI: How I Decide Whether an Automation Is Worth Building
Updated for 2026. The framework I use to decide whether an AI automation is actually worth building — quantified manual cost, build cost, run cost, maintenance tax, and the payback formula I apply before writing a single line of agent code.
Jul 8, 2026
How to Automate Your Small Business with AI Agents: A Practitioner's Guide
Updated for 2026. The exact playbook I use to automate a real small business with AI agents — from the $5/month Cloudflare stack to the tasks that actually pay off.
Jul 3, 2026
Prompt Caching with the Claude API: Cut Your Input Costs Without Switching Models
How to use cache_control to cut Claude API input costs by up to 90% on agents with large stable prompts — the prefix-match invariant, what to cache, silent invalidators, and the break-even math.
Jun 17, 2026
AI Agent Cost Math: When Haiku Beats Sonnet (and When It Doesn't)
Updated for 2026. The cost math I use to pick Claude Haiku vs Sonnet per task — token economics, the routing rule, and where cheap models quietly cost more.
Jun 7, 2026
How to Debug an AI Agent in Production (A Field Guide)
Updated for 2026. The exact playbook I use to debug AI agents running live — trace every step, isolate the failing layer, and reproduce non-determinism fast.
Jun 7, 2026
Multi-Agent Orchestration Patterns: Queues, State, and Handoffs
Updated for 2026. The orchestration patterns I use to run multi-agent systems — durable queues, externalized state, and clean handoffs that survive retries.
Jun 7, 2026
The Eval Harness I Use to Ship AI Agents Without Fear
Updated for 2026. The eval harness I use to ship AI agents — a graded test set, an LLM judge, and a regression gate so a prompt change can't break prod.
Jun 7, 2026