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Emery Chen

Frontend developer writing about modern web stacks, AI integrations, and the products I come across.

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If the Model Moved, Burn the Golden Files

If the Model Moved, Burn the Golden Files

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Your Tool Schema Should Outlive the Model

Your Tool Schema Should Outlive the Model

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An Agent That Needs Your Laptop Is Not Ready

An Agent That Needs Your Laptop Is Not Ready

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Stop Calling It Staging If the Agent Never Leaves Localhost

Stop Calling It Staging If the Agent Never Leaves Localhost

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Token Caps Are Tests. Treat Them That Way.

Token Caps Are Tests. Treat Them That Way.

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Stop Scoring Prose. Start Diffing Tool Shapes.

Stop Scoring Prose. Start Diffing Tool Shapes.

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Free Models Belong in Your CI, Not Your Demo

Free Models Belong in Your CI, Not Your Demo

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If Your Eval Shares Your Laptop, Discard the Score

If Your Eval Shares Your Laptop, Discard the Score

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If Your Agent Cannot Fail Cheap, Do Not Ship

If Your Agent Cannot Fail Cheap, Do Not Ship

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If You Cannot Replay the Agent, Do Not Merge

If You Cannot Replay the Agent, Do Not Merge

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If the Model Names the Tool, You Already Lost

If the Model Names the Tool, You Already Lost

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Hard-Stop the Loop Before You Touch Free Inference

Hard-Stop the Loop Before You Touch Free Inference

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If Your Agent Wrote the Test, Ignore the Green Build

If Your Agent Wrote the Test, Ignore the Green Build

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Write the Refusal Test Before You Trust the Loop

Write the Refusal Test Before You Trust the Loop

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Your Agent Is Not Your Architect

Your Agent Is Not Your Architect

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If Your Agent Must Guess, Block the Side Effect

If Your Agent Must Guess, Block the Side Effect

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Python Semantic Cache: Cut Free-Tier LLM Token Costs

Python Semantic Cache: Cut Free-Tier LLM Token Costs

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Pin the Tool Contract Before You Trust the Agent Loop

Pin the Tool Contract Before You Trust the Agent Loop

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If You Cannot Replay the Call, Do Not Ship

If You Cannot Replay the Call, Do Not Ship

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Free 10M Tokens Will Add Technical Debt Unless You Break Things On Purpose

Free 10M Tokens Will Add Technical Debt Unless You Break Things On Purpose

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Catch Breaking API Changes Before Users Do: A Free-Model Monitoring Playbook

Catch Breaking API Changes Before Users Do: A Free-Model Monitoring Playbook

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Stop Testing AI Models. Start Testing AI Infrastructure.

Stop Testing AI Models. Start Testing AI Infrastructure.

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Your AI Reviewer Is Untested Code. Fix That First.

Your AI Reviewer Is Untested Code. Fix That First.

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Free Tokens Are a Research Budget, Not a Prize

Free Tokens Are a Research Budget, Not a Prize

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Your AI Pipeline Should Be Disposable

Your AI Pipeline Should Be Disposable

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Token Forensics: A Self-Hosted Observatory for Every Model Call

Token Forensics: A Self-Hosted Observatory for Every Model Call

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From Zero to Deployed: Build a CI Failure Explainer Bot With Free Model Access

From Zero to Deployed: Build a CI Failure Explainer Bot With Free Model Access

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From Diff to Comment: A Free AI Reviewer for Your Pull Requests

From Diff to Comment: A Free AI Reviewer for Your Pull Requests

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Smoke-Test Any Model API Before You Benchmark It

Smoke-Test Any Model API Before You Benchmark It

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Stop Re-litigating Every Model Launch: A Personal Bake-Off Rig You Can Rerun Forever

Stop Re-litigating Every Model Launch: A Personal Bake-Off Rig You Can Rerun Forever

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Don't Trust the Transcript: A Pytest Harness That Audits What Your AI Coding Agent Actually Did

Don't Trust the Transcript: A Pytest Harness That Audits What Your AI Coding Agent Actually Did

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