Stories from the gateway
AI Agents
Tracing Multi-Step Agents: Building a Trace Tree That Holds
A flat log of model calls cannot explain a twenty-step run. How to shape spans, propagate context through subagents and async tools, and replay a run from its trace.
· 9 min readFundamentals
Transformer Architecture Explained for Working Developers
What a transformer block actually contains, why the design won, and which parts of it explain the behaviour you observe when using a model.
· 9 min readCost & Pricing
Trial Abuse and Fair Use on Flat-Rate AI Plans
· 9 min readFundamentals
Unicode and Tokenization: Where Text Handling Goes Wrong
· 9 min readCost & Pricing
Usage Caps and Overages: Limits That Do Not Break Work
· 12 min readGuides
Using an LLM for Database Schema Design, Carefully
· 9 min readGuides
Using an LLM to Generate and Edit Config Files
· 9 min readGuides
Using LangChain With Any OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint
· 9 min readCost & Pricing
Vendor Lock-In Costs: Measure It Instead of Fearing It
· 9 min readModels
Vendor-Claimed vs Independent Benchmarks: Reading Both
· 9 min readGuides
Vercel AI SDK: Wiring Up a Custom OpenAI-Compatible Provider
· 9 min readAI Agents
Verifier Agents: Gating Completion on a Check That Passes
· 9 min readModels
Vision-Language Models: What to Test Before You Commit
· 9 min readFundamentals
Vocabulary Size Trade-offs in Language Model Tokenizers
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