AI providers ask us to trust agents with our accounts and real work, while their terms of service put every consequence on the user. Before I hand an agent the keys, one question needs an answer: who is responsible when something goes wrong?
Every major way to run background jobs, message queues, and scheduled tasks from a serverless app in 2026: QStash, Inngest, Trigger.dev, Google Cloud Tasks, AWS SQS and SNS, Cloudflare Queues, and Vercel Cron, compared on HTTP delivery, retries, dead-letter queues, delays, cron, and price.
We rewrite a model's own answer in the transcript to say the opposite, then ask it to explain itself. Across ten frontier models, 46% of replies defend the planted answer. Opus 4.8 almost never falls for it. Fable 5 does worse than both Opus and Sonnet.
Practical ways to cut Claude token costs in Claude Code and on the API: prompt caching, model tiering with subagents, effort tuning, context engineering, skills, and Context7. The techniques work on every model, from Haiku 4.5 to Fable 5.
Factory robots (1990-2015) are the best natural experiment we have for machines replacing workers. The mechanics of displacement carry over to AI, but the target inverts: robots hit the least-educated hardest, while AI exposure rises with skill and income. A data-driven look at who actually loses their job.
The best managed Redis hosting providers compared on product, in 2026: Upstash, AWS ElastiCache and MemoryDB, Redis Cloud, Google Memorystore, Azure, DigitalOcean, Aiven, and Railway, across connectivity, global replication, high availability, and built-in search.
An end-to-end data platform you run on your laptop, built phase by phase on k3d: streaming ingest, row/column/lakehouse storage, observability, and resilience.
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A local, end-to-end data platform on one k3d Kubernetes cluster, built on a laptop in tagged phases: streaming ingest, the right storage shape per access pattern, observability, and resilience.
Sakana's Fugu orchestrates frontier LLMs into a single endpoint. A guided tour of its two engines (the evolved TRINITY router and the RL-trained Conductor) with interactive diagrams of both architectures.
Notes from building a quick demo agent on Vercel Eve: initializing a project, the file layout, the dev TUI, tools and skills, scheduling, channels, deployment, and how it builds on Vercel's stack.
How we gave a Vercel Eve agent retrieval-augmented answers by backing it with Upstash Redis Search: pass-through search tools and a system-prompt query reference.
Capture Vercel AI SDK generations and tool calls as JSON in Upstash Redis, then serve latency percentiles, token stats, and error counts entirely with Upstash Redis Search aggregations — no sorted sets, no client-side math.
Run durable AI agents on Upstash Workflow with @upstash/workflow-agents, then keep their payloads and token usage in check by splitting work across subagents with an orchestrator-worker setup.
A personal site collects everything you do in one place. And you can build one without knowing a thing about the framework it runs on, just focusing on the aesthetics, like Bob Ross.
A lightweight analytics platform built on Upstash Redis, providing event tracking, session management, feature flags, and A/B testing with a type-safe SDK and a built-in dashboard
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