Journal

Reflecting on some of the toughest challenges I've tackled in my career.

The AI Agent's Best Tool Is Fewer Tools

The AI Agent's Best Tool Is Fewer Tools

A capable model with ten tools burns through its step budget before it can answer anything. So Stir routes every query through a tiny classifier first, scopes the main model to a four-tool subset per intent, and short-circuits one-word queries with zero LLM calls.

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Faker Gives You Fake Data. That's The Problem.

Faker Gives You Fake Data. That's The Problem.

Faker fills columns; it can't tell stories. A three-pass LLM pipeline that generates relationally coherent demo data — food bloggers RSVP to wine tastings, high-spenders buy VIP tickets, friends actually share cities — for under two dollars a run through the Anthropic Batch API.

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