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Riley Li

Oct 11

Pick a Free, Paid, or Self-Hosted Agent Seat by the Lease You Can End

#ai #devops #tutorial #python

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Oct 10

A Review-Hour Gate for Free, Paid, and Local Agent Work

#ai #devops #tutorial #productivity

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8 min read

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Oct 9

A Parser Contract Before Free Agent Compute Joins the Release Path

#ai #python #devops #testing

7 min read

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Oct 8

Score a Free Agent Seat Against Paid and Self-Hosted With a Replay Card

#ai #devops #tutorial #productivity

9 min read

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Oct 8

Pick the Agent Seat by the Commit You Would Sign

#git #ai #devops #tutorial

8 min read

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Sep 24

Decide the Agent Seat by the Bundle You Can Carry Out

#ai #devops #tutorial #testing

9 min read

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Sep 23

Split Agent Work Into a Drafting Room and a Release Switch

#ai #architecture #testing #productivity

7 min read

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Sep 22

Compare Free Agent Compute to a Paid Box With a Weighted Tradeoff Sheet

#ai #devops #testing #productivity

8 min read

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Sep 21

Inventory What You Cannot Pin Before You Choose Free Agent Compute

#ai #agents #devops #python

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Sep 20

Budget the Agent Loop Before You Choose Shared or Isolated Compute

#ai #testing #agents #devops

7 min read

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Sep 19

Score the Host Before You Promote a Vibe-Coded Agent

#ai #testing #python #devops

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Sep 18

Choose Agent Compute by Replayable Evals, Not by Spare Capacity

#ai #python #testing #devops

8 min read

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Sep 17

Pass Four Fit Gates Before You Choose Free or Isolated Agent Compute

#ai #devops #testing #productivity

7 min read

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Sep 16

Who Owns the Failed Agent Run? Score Free Shared Compute Against a Box You Control

#agents #ai #devops #testing

7 min read

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Sep 14

Free Compute or Self-Hosted? A Break-Even Guide for Agent Workloads

#ai #agents #opensource #python

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Sep 13

Rank Agent Runtimes by the Contract You Can Enforce

#ai #agents #testing #architecture

8 min read

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Sep 12

Invert Non-Negotiable Constraints Before You Accept Free Agent Compute

#ai #agents #architecture #python

7 min read

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Sep 11

Keep the Agent Loop Portable, Then Choose Free Shared Compute

#ai #agents #python #architecture

7 min read

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Sep 9

Pick Agent Compute by Blast Radius, Not by the Price Tag

#ai #agents #python #architecture

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Sep 6

Choose Agent Compute by What You Can Falsify

#ai #agents #architecture #python

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Sep 5

Score the Agent Before You Pick the Endpoint

#python #ai #architecture #agents

10 min read

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Sep 4

Score the Lane First: Free Shared Workspace, Paid API, or Self-Hosted

#ai #agents #architecture #productivity

7 min read

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Sep 4

Designing for a 10M-Token Ceiling: A Token-Budget Scheduler for Background LLM Jobs

#llm #python #architecture #ai

5 min read

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Sep 4

A Token Bucket for Free-Tier LLM Endpoints: Rate Limiting Without a Fancy Gateway

#python #llm #api #tutorial

4 min read

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Sep 3

Keep the Regex Writer Until Shadow Receipts Match

#python #testing #ai #devops

10 min read

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Sep 2

Don't Let a Free LLM Tier Vanish: A Self-Healing Token Budget in 80 Lines

#ai #python #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

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Sep 1

Free Models and a Free Server: A 100-Line LLM Failover Proxy

#llm #python #webdev #opensource

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Aug 31

Free Tokens or Your Own GPU? A Practical Fit-Test for AI Workloads

#ai #llm #selfhosted #productivity

5 min read

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Aug 30

Free LLM Tiers vs. Self-Hosted Inference: A Four-Score Script That Picks for You

#ai #llm #productivity #programming

4 min read

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Aug 29

Free Models and a Free Server: A 30-Line Budget That Lasts the Month

#ai #llm #productivity #opensource

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Aug 28

A 60-Line Probe That Decided Between a Free Server and My Own Hardware

#ai #llm #python #serverless

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Aug 26

Free LLM Tier or Self-Hosted? Three Numbers Decide, Not the Price Tag

#ai #llm #opensource #devops

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Aug 25

Token Meters for Free LLM Tiers: Three Leaks My 150-Line Logger Caught in an Hour

#ai #python #llm #productivity

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Aug 25

Debugging a Flaky LLM Pipeline: Timeouts, Truncation, and a 40-Line Probe

#llm #debugging #python #ai

5 min read

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Aug 22

Three Nights of Empty LLM Responses — and the Isolation Trick That Finally Caught the Culprit

#ai #debugging #llm #python

4 min read

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Aug 14

Minimax H3 Is Having a Moment. My Prompt Set Doesn't Care.

#ai #testing #python #opensource

4 min read

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Aug 14

A Credit-Card-Free Triage Bot for Noisy CI Logs

#ai #devops #automation #tutorial

5 min read

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Aug 13

Every Week a New Model Is "Cheaper and Better" — Here's the 30-Minute Harness That Settles It

#ai #productivity #testing #tutorial

5 min read

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Aug 10

I Stopped Reading Model Release Threads and Built a Release-Day Eval Ritual Instead

#ai #productivity #testing #tooling

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