Writing
I write occasionally about distributed systems, operating software in the real world, and getting useful work out of language models. There is usually a diagram. If you’d like, new posts can arrive by email.
How Cheap Can We Go On A Real Agentic Workflow?
We ran a real GitHub issue-triage agent on nine models. The cost-quality curve was a cliff, not a slope, and the cheapest model per run was not the cheapest route to a correct answer.
How to Build Efficient Data Pipelines Across Multiple Clouds
A prototype for automating task placement in data pipelines across multi-cluster, multi-cloud environments, balancing data governance, resource limits, and transfer cost.