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Paul Twist

European AI engineer • Technical writer • I turn messy AI infrastructure into practical guides developers can actually use.

Location Berlin, Germany Joined Joined on 

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Computer Science, distributed systems, and open-source infrastructure

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AI Engineer & Technical Writer

Memory Isn't Just Storage: Why Persistent Agent Memory Becomes Your Liability Without Infrastructure

Memory Isn't Just Storage: Why Persistent Agent Memory Becomes Your Liability Without Infrastructure

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Agent Gateways Are Not LLM Gateways: Why Tool Authorization Changes Everything

Agent Gateways Are Not LLM Gateways: Why Tool Authorization Changes Everything

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Why Your AI Gateway Isn't Secure for Agents: The Tool-Call Security Gap

Why Your AI Gateway Isn't Secure for Agents: The Tool-Call Security Gap

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Why Agent Latency Compounds: The Gateway Overhead Problem Killing Production Agents

Why Agent Latency Compounds: The Gateway Overhead Problem Killing Production Agents

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Self-Hosted Agent Platforms Are Failing: The Operational Debt Nobody Counts

Self-Hosted Agent Platforms Are Failing: The Operational Debt Nobody Counts

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Multi-Agent Coordination Is Failing In Production: Why Infrastructure Matters

Multi-Agent Coordination Is Failing In Production: Why Infrastructure Matters

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Test Article

Test Article

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From Prompt Engineering to Context Engineering: How Production Agents Actually Work in 2026

From Prompt Engineering to Context Engineering: How Production Agents Actually Work in 2026

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Proving What Your Agents Learned: The Behavior Audit Trail Problem

Proving What Your Agents Learned: The Behavior Audit Trail Problem

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The Operational Maturity Gap: Why Agent Projects Stall After Launch

The Operational Maturity Gap: Why Agent Projects Stall After Launch

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The Evaluation Debt You Don't Know You Have: Why Agent Evals Fail in Production

The Evaluation Debt You Don't Know You Have: Why Agent Evals Fail in Production

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Tool Authorization Before Action: Why Your Agent Guardrails Are in the Wrong Place

Tool Authorization Before Action: Why Your Agent Guardrails Are in the Wrong Place

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The Integration Bottleneck: Why Your Agents Fail When Meeting Real Systems

The Integration Bottleneck: Why Your Agents Fail When Meeting Real Systems

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Claude Code Was Costing Us $250/Dev/Month. We Got It Under $90.

Claude Code Was Costing Us $250/Dev/Month. We Got It Under $90.

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Why Your Production Agents Can't Forget: Memory Decay, Recovery Patterns, and Long-Horizon Reliability

Why Your Production Agents Can't Forget: Memory Decay, Recovery Patterns, and Long-Horizon Reliability

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The Execution Layer Crisis: Why Your Agent Failures Aren't Model Problems

The Execution Layer Crisis: Why Your Agent Failures Aren't Model Problems

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Why 88% of Agent Pilots Die: The Infrastructure Readiness Gap Nobody Talks About

Why 88% of Agent Pilots Die: The Infrastructure Readiness Gap Nobody Talks About

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The Multi-Team Agent Governance Problem (And Why Your Current Approach Doesn't Scale)

The Multi-Team Agent Governance Problem (And Why Your Current Approach Doesn't Scale)

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Why Agent Scheduling Is Your Next Infrastructure Problem

Why Agent Scheduling Is Your Next Infrastructure Problem

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Why Real-Time Agents Are Reshaping LLM Gateway Architecture

Why Real-Time Agents Are Reshaping LLM Gateway Architecture

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Why the Inline Harness Matters: Your Agent Control Plane Just Got Lighter

Why the Inline Harness Matters: Your Agent Control Plane Just Got Lighter

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The Skill Portability Problem: Why Your Best Agents Are Locked Into One Runtime

The Skill Portability Problem: Why Your Best Agents Are Locked Into One Runtime

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The Four-Layer Agent Stack: When Your Framework Isn't Enough

The Four-Layer Agent Stack: When Your Framework Isn't Enough

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LiteLLM-Rust Changes Agent Memory Architecture: A 150x Speedup Shifts the Economics

LiteLLM-Rust Changes Agent Memory Architecture: A 150x Speedup Shifts the Economics

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What Your Production Agents Aren't Telling You: A Practical Guide to Agent Observability

What Your Production Agents Aren't Telling You: A Practical Guide to Agent Observability

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The Brain/Sandbox Pattern: Why Your Production Agent Needs This Architecture

The Brain/Sandbox Pattern: Why Your Production Agent Needs This Architecture

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Oracle Cloud Just Made LiteLLM a Native Provider for OCI Generative AI

Oracle Cloud Just Made LiteLLM a Native Provider for OCI Generative AI

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Your Agents Need a Security Boundary. Heres Why Its Become Non-Negotiable.

Your Agents Need a Security Boundary. Heres Why Its Become Non-Negotiable.

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LiteLLM vs Bifrost: I Tested Both in Production. Here's What Actually Matters.

LiteLLM vs Bifrost: I Tested Both in Production. Here's What Actually Matters.

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The Agents That Actually Ship: Why Boring Beats Autonomous

The Agents That Actually Ship: Why Boring Beats Autonomous

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LiteLLM Is Moving to Rust. Here's What the Benchmarks Look Like.

LiteLLM Is Moving to Rust. Here's What the Benchmarks Look Like.

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The Orchestration Bottleneck: Why Your Agent Infrastructure Needs Two Layers in 2026

The Orchestration Bottleneck: Why Your Agent Infrastructure Needs Two Layers in 2026

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Agent Session Memory Isn't a Feature. It's Your Control Plane.

Agent Session Memory Isn't a Feature. It's Your Control Plane.

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We Cut Our LLM API Bill 30% With Four Lines of YAML

We Cut Our LLM API Bill 30% With Four Lines of YAML

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Why Your Agents Need Intelligent MCP Routing (And Why It's Harder Than It Looks)

Why Your Agents Need Intelligent MCP Routing (And Why It's Harder Than It Looks)

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We Let 40 Engineers Loose With Coding Agents. The Bill Was Brutal.

We Let 40 Engineers Loose With Coding Agents. The Bill Was Brutal.

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The Multi-Runtime Agent Problem: Why Your Team Needs More Than One Runtime

The Multi-Runtime Agent Problem: Why Your Team Needs More Than One Runtime

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AWS Just Made LiteLLM a First-Class Model Provider in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Just Made LiteLLM a First-Class Model Provider in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

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Stop Measuring Agent Infrastructure by Gateway Latency Alone

Stop Measuring Agent Infrastructure by Gateway Latency Alone

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We Obsessed Over Gateway Latency for a Month. Then We Looked at the Actual Numbers.

We Obsessed Over Gateway Latency for a Month. Then We Looked at the Actual Numbers.

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Why Your Agents Are Silently Burning Tokens (And How to Stop Them)

Why Your Agents Are Silently Burning Tokens (And How to Stop Them)

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Why Coding Agents Need Two Halves of Infrastructure: Control Plane + Fast Data Plane

Why Coding Agents Need Two Halves of Infrastructure: Control Plane + Fast Data Plane

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The Missing Operational Layer Between Agent Prototypes and Production

The Missing Operational Layer Between Agent Prototypes and Production

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