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The Token Tax: Why Most AI Coding Costs Are Wasted on Work a $0.10 Model Could Do

Most tokens burned by an AI coding agent are spent on I/O and boilerplate, not reasoning. Here’s how to slash your bill by routing grunt work to a cheaper model while keeping your frontier model for the problems that actually need it.

September 6, 2026 · 13 min · 2582 words · martinuke0
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Implementing Hermetic Builds with Bazel and Buildbuddy for Reproducible CI Pipelines

How to combine Bazel’s hermetic execution model with Buildbuddy’s remote build cache and execution to ship faster, more reliable CI pipelines.

September 6, 2026 · 8 min · 1653 words · martinuke0
Abstract diagram of encrypted message envelopes flowing from a sender through a notification gateway to multiple recipient devices.

Implementing End-to-End Encrypted Push Notifications with Signal and MLS

A practical guide to delivering push notifications that the server cannot read, covering Signal’s Double Ratchet, MLS group state, APNs/FCM payload constraints, and the tradeoffs you’ll hit in production.

September 6, 2026 · 10 min · 1993 words · martinuke0
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AI Engineering From Scratch: The Production Blueprint Most Tutorials Skip

Most ‘AI engineering’ tutorials stop at a notebook. This post walks through the full production stack — data pipelines, training loops, evaluation harnesses, serving, and observability — so you can build a system that actually ships.

September 6, 2026 · 11 min · 2217 words · martinuke0
Stylized graph diagram showing code symbols as nodes and dependencies as edges.

Context Graphs for Coding Agents: Why Tool-Call Counts Are the New Token Bill

Coding agents spend most of their budget on file and symbol discovery, not on actual reasoning. Here is how precomputed context graphs change that, and why it matters for every team shipping agentic dev tools.

September 6, 2026 · 11 min · 2201 words · martinuke0
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