Episode Companion

The written companion to a Production AI video. The architecture detail, diagrams, and receipts that don't fit on camera.

Economic Architecture

Reasoning Is About to Get Better and More Expensive

Aug 8, 2026

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4 min read

Reasoning Is About to Get Better and More Expensive

Twelve to thirteen ongoing agentic workflows across three or four agencies, and roughly $500 a month. Almost none of that is local models. It is six habits, and the first one is a configuration change.

Security

Aug 8, 2026

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5 min read

Three Doors, One Guard

Meta puts prompt injection success against production agents at 86%. That is the number for teams defending one boundary, and the layer this team was proudest of was the one that would have owned them.

Economic Architecture

Your Agents Are Awake 95% of the Time for No Reason

Aug 8, 2026

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6 min read

Your Agents Are Awake 95% of the Time for No Reason

We spent months writing reconnect logic and retry loops to keep agents alive. We were solving the wrong problem, and the right answer is queue infrastructure from the 1980s.

Reliability

Fifty Sub-Agents at 95% Gives You a 7.7% Chance

Aug 8, 2026

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5 min read

Fifty Sub-Agents at 95% Gives You a 7.7% Chance

Everyone spawning sub-agents believes more of them means finishing sooner. The arithmetic says the opposite, and the fix removes a component most people think they need.

Reliability

I Mapped My AI Software Lifecycle. Code Wasn't the Bottleneck.

Aug 7, 2026

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6 min read

I Mapped My AI Software Lifecycle. Code Wasn't the Bottleneck.

AI made code generation fast. It did nothing for the two places the time actually goes, and one of them was quietly lying to me.

Episode Companion

Reasoning Is About to Get Better and More Expensive

Three Doors, One Guard

Your Agents Are Awake 95% of the Time for No Reason

Fifty Sub-Agents at 95% Gives You a 7.7% Chance

I Mapped My AI Software Lifecycle. Code Wasn't the Bottleneck.

Chris Knows Production AI