Workflow Automation
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#4967: AI Gateways: Worth the Middleware Tax?
When does an AI gateway's overhead justify its features? We break down the tradeoffs.
#4916: Inside an MRO Warehouse: Moving 4,000-Pound Landing Gear
How aviation warehouses move everything from tiny fasteners to 4,000-pound landing gear struts.
#4902: Backward Batching: Fixing Slow Uploads Without Blocking Users
How one developer used background threads and deferred AI processing to fix a cataloguing workflow.
#4880: Who Really Flies Your Flight? Inside Wet Leases
When an airline's crew doesn't actually work for the airline whose name is on the plane.
#4872: Can Tourism Save a City or Only Hollow It Out?
Jerusalem risks becoming a two-tier city. Barcelona and Kyoto show a better path.
#4834: Why Your AI Bill Keeps Surprising You
How a 37-cent project and a $100 simulation reveal the hidden math of AI API pricing.
#4832: Your AI Memory Should Be Markdown Files
Why your AI project memory should live in Git-tracked Markdown files, not a proprietary platform.
#4829: Why Can't You Filter by Bluetooth on Amazon?
Technical buyers waste hours hunting specs. AI might finally fix e-commerce filtering.
#4800: The CLI That Powers Half the Internet's Video
How a French programmer's side project became the invisible engine behind YouTube, VLC, and OBS.
#4787: The Motion Test: Which Weird Peripherals Actually Earn Their Port
Does that fancy peripheral actually remove a motion you make hundreds of times a day? We put steno keyboards, TourBox, Stream Deck, and more to the...
#4772: Amazon's Three Shadows: Packaging, Returns, and Warehouse Labor
How Amazon's selection, delivery, and returns create hidden costs in cardboard, waste, and worker safety.
#4753: Cookies as AI Credentials: The Auth Problem
How to get browser cookies into an AI agent's hands — and why they expire so fast.
#4752: How AI Agents Map Websites to Build Stable Plugins
An AI agent explores DOM and network layers to build self-healing browser plugins.
#4713: MCP vs Browser-Use: The Agentic AI Showdown
Two patterns are fighting to define how AI agents interact with software. Which one wins shapes the next decade of building.
#4700: Browser Agents: Three Paths to One Protocol
How screenshot watching, dev-tools extensions, and native MCP in Chrome are converging — and what wins.
#4691: The Machine Lane: When AI Agents Call Your Business
What if your business phone menu had a button for AI callers? The search for who's building it — and why nobody has.
#4690: Typst for Agents: Programmatic PDF Generation
How Typst's function-based design makes it the ideal document engine for AI agents generating professional PDFs.
#4683: Parallel vs Sequential Agent Loops: The Real Tradeoffs
When should AI agents run in parallel vs sequential chains? The dependency graph isn't enough — join costs and error handling matter more.
#4681: Loops vs Workflows: Defining AI's New Unit of Work
What makes a Claude Code loop different from a prompt or workflow? We pin down the actual definition—and who owns the off switch.
#4661: Database Migrations: The Full Lifecycle
From schema change to production — the complete guide to safe, zero-downtime database migrations.
#4648: Graph Engineering: AI Memory Beyond Retrieval
How linked notes and knowledge graphs are turning AI agents from memory tools into discovery engines.
#4604: When Sub-Agents Overwhelm the Orchestrator
Daniel's inventory system hit a wall when parallel sub-agents flooded the orchestrator's context window. We break down the math and the fix.
#4581: Text In, Text Out: Designing Single-Purpose AI Utilities
Why small, narrowly scoped AI tools need system prompts that say "shut up and return the output" — and how to write them.
#4580: The Tiny AI Tools That Beat Big Agents
Why small, single-purpose AI utilities outperform autonomous agents for daily work — and what interface they need.