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Field reports from building agentic workflows, permission-aware RAG, and the LLMOps to run them. What breaks in production. What we ship anyway. What we learned.

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How much does it cost to build an AI agent?

Around $6K for a production-minded prototype, $15K+ for an agent system with a real harness, $50K+ when the domain, data and infrastructure get serious, and a monthly retainer to keep it running. Most of that money goes into the harness around the model.

by Alexander Myasoedov · Oct 6, 2026 · 10 min read

Lazy imports are a fix for circular imports, not a startup trick.

Python 3.15 ships the lazy keyword this month. Most takes I've seen file it under startup speed. I think the bigger win is that the …

by Alexander Myasoedov · Oct 6, 2026

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Should I hire a fractional AI CTO?

Can you see user outcomes increasing with the new features you add, or are you still on a flat line, or even seeing a drop in retention after shipping …

by Alexander Myasoedov · Oct 6, 2026

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Always-on agents. The model is swappable, the harness is not.

OpenAI shipped Dots, scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra, and AMD bought a company that etches models into silicon, all within a few weeks. Read together, they …

by Alexander Myasoedov · Oct 5, 2026

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Jev won't break your app. Delegating everything to it will.

A decision model that returns a boolean fixes malformed JSON and retries. It doesn't fix prompt injection, and it doesn't tell you which decisions …

by Alexander Myasoedov · Oct 5, 2026

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We put Jev at the front door of a security platform. It costs five cents a day.

A cybersecurity client needed to catch misuse at onboarding and weak pentest reports before customers read them. We swapped a domain blocklist and an …

by Alexander Myasoedov · Sep 28, 2026

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Jev for SEO: our content audit is ten questions and a threshold.

We ran TypeSafe's Jev over every Markdown page on a Hugo blog and asked it the kind of thing a Google quality rater would ask. Is this thin? Generic? …

by Alexander Myasoedov · Sep 28, 2026

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Hiring an AI developer in 2026 means filtering out the fakes first.

AI writes the resumes, AI screens the resumes, and everyone pretends nobody is using it. The real engineers get lost in the flood and the fakes get …

by Alexander Myasoedov · Sep 25, 2026

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Hiring an AI agent developer? Ask about everything around the model.

Anyone can wire a prompt to an API in an afternoon. The questions that separate a GenAI developer who can ship from one who can demo are about the …

by Alexander Myasoedov · Sep 25, 2026

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Eight years of GPT spinoffs. Then Jev, and a week of BERT's revenge.

TypeSafe shipped Jev on a Tuesday. By Sunday there were three open rivals, and the fastest of them is a fine-tuned ModernBERT that reads its answers …

by Alexander Myasoedov · Sep 22, 2026