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Michael Tuszynski

Cloud architect and technical leader specializing in AWS. Passionate about DevOps, infrastructure as code, and building solutions. Writing about cloud architecture, CI/CD, and engineering leadership.

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Karpathy's LLM Wiki Works. Here's What Broke When I Ran It at Real Scale.

Karpathy's LLM Wiki Works. Here's What Broke When I Ran It at Real Scale.

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Your $40K GPU Runs 6 Hours a Day: The Utilization Number Every Local-LLM TCO Omits

Your $40K GPU Runs 6 Hours a Day: The Utilization Number Every Local-LLM TCO Omits

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Local LLM vs Cloud API at 12 Months: The 3 Line Items Every Per-Token Comparison Omits

Local LLM vs Cloud API at 12 Months: The 3 Line Items Every Per-Token Comparison Omits

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Your Local LLM Bill Is Per Token. Your Real Cost Is Per Accepted Answer.

Your Local LLM Bill Is Per Token. Your Real Cost Is Per Accepted Answer.

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The 26% Who Never Rolled Back an Agent Aren't Winning

The 26% Who Never Rolled Back an Agent Aren't Winning

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AI Use Is a 50/50 Coin Flip. Coding Already Tipped 61% Autonomous.

AI Use Is a 50/50 Coin Flip. Coding Already Tipped 61% Autonomous.

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The Meter Is Always Running

The Meter Is Always Running

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Your AI Coding Pilot Cost $80K and Shipped 9% Faster. Here's the Line Item Finance Missed.

Your AI Coding Pilot Cost $80K and Shipped 9% Faster. Here's the Line Item Finance Missed.

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The Bubble Popper and the Payoff Are the Same Thing

The Bubble Popper and the Payoff Are the Same Thing

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Torvalds' Best Review Trick Just Stopped Working

Torvalds' Best Review Trick Just Stopped Working

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Attention Is the New Bottleneck. Engineer It Like One.

Attention Is the New Bottleneck. Engineer It Like One.

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Try It: A Working Assessment-First Course

Try It: A Working Assessment-First Course

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Where Your $20K in Tokens Actually Goes

Where Your $20K in Tokens Actually Goes

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Instrument Like a Learning Scientist

Instrument Like a Learning Scientist

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The Biggest Effect Size Was the Boring Feature

The Biggest Effect Size Was the Boring Feature

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The Grader Was Right and the Students Quit Anyway

The Grader Was Right and the Students Quit Anyway

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Students Are Adversaries: Red-Teaming an LLM Grader

Students Are Adversaries: Red-Teaming an LLM Grader

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Your LLM Judge Needs a Test Suite

Your LLM Judge Needs a Test Suite

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Grading Written Answers with an LLM, Properly

Grading Written Answers with an LLM, Properly

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The AI Tutor Everyone Builds Is the One Students Ignore

The AI Tutor Everyone Builds Is the One Students Ignore

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Build a Self-Improving Agent Harness in an Afternoon

Build a Self-Improving Agent Harness in an Afternoon

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Maintainability Is the Last Mile, and It Doesn't Benchmark Away

Maintainability Is the Last Mile, and It Doesn't Benchmark Away

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OpenTelemetry Tells You What Your Agent Did. Not Whether It Was OK.

OpenTelemetry Tells You What Your Agent Did. Not Whether It Was OK.

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An Engineer Costs $250K. Their Tokens Cost $20K. That Math Is a Trap.

An Engineer Costs $250K. Their Tokens Cost $20K. That Math Is a Trap.

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How to Run an Agent Loop Without Burning Your Token Budget

How to Run an Agent Loop Without Burning Your Token Budget

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On-Prem AI Is a Bet on Control

On-Prem AI Is a Bet on Control

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Loading Tool Schemas on Demand Is How Agents Scale

Loading Tool Schemas on Demand Is How Agents Scale

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Org-Wide Dependency Visibility Is Integrated Work

Org-Wide Dependency Visibility Is Integrated Work

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Telemetry Is the Context Your Coding Agent Is Missing

Telemetry Is the Context Your Coding Agent Is Missing

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Some Problems Are Too Big for One Context Window

Some Problems Are Too Big for One Context Window

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Renting Compute From Three Clouds Is the Default Now

Renting Compute From Three Clouds Is the Default Now

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The Million-Token Context Window Changes What You Put In It

The Million-Token Context Window Changes What You Put In It

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Absorption Rate Is a Praxis Problem

Absorption Rate Is a Praxis Problem

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Usage Standards Are a Praxis Problem

Usage Standards Are a Praxis Problem

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Wealth Management's Coming Agent Shock

Wealth Management's Coming Agent Shock

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The Five Failures That Shaped My Personal AI Stack

The Five Failures That Shaped My Personal AI Stack

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What My AI Workflow Actually Costs Per Month

What My AI Workflow Actually Costs Per Month

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The Five Hooks That Change How You Ship With Claude Code

The Five Hooks That Change How You Ship With Claude Code

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Inside the Stack I Ship From Daily

Inside the Stack I Ship From Daily

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Your Personal AI Stack Is the New Dotfiles

Your Personal AI Stack Is the New Dotfiles

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The Coding Agent Stack Has Two Layers

The Coding Agent Stack Has Two Layers

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You Can't Co-Design What You Don't Operate

You Can't Co-Design What You Don't Operate

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Goodhart's Law Just Got a Slash Command

Goodhart's Law Just Got a Slash Command

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Your Marketing Team Is Now a Software Vendor

Your Marketing Team Is Now a Software Vendor

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Anthropic Picked Tulsa

Anthropic Picked Tulsa

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What Looks Like Busywork Is Mostly Rent

What Looks Like Busywork Is Mostly Rent

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Build Like the Capex Already Left

Build Like the Capex Already Left

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Brand on the CV Is a 2018 Heuristic

Brand on the CV Is a 2018 Heuristic

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Stop Paying by the Syllable

Stop Paying by the Syllable

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Write the Architecture Down First

Write the Architecture Down First

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Claude Was Always Thinking Ahead. Now We Can Read It.

Claude Was Always Thinking Ahead. Now We Can Read It.

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Babysitter, Auditor, Prayer. Or Tests.

Babysitter, Auditor, Prayer. Or Tests.

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Production LLM Guardrails: 8 Controls Every AI Team Needs

Production LLM Guardrails: 8 Controls Every AI Team Needs

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The Knowledge Base Is Not the Moat. The Loop Is.

The Knowledge Base Is Not the Moat. The Loop Is.

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The AI Didn't Delete Your Database. Your Missing Agent Pipeline Did.

The AI Didn't Delete Your Database. Your Missing Agent Pipeline Did.

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Liu's 4 Lines Are the Floor. Build the Ceiling.

Liu's 4 Lines Are the Floor. Build the Ceiling.

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Agentic Coding Isn't the Trap. Supervising From Your Head Is.

Agentic Coding Isn't the Trap. Supervising From Your Head Is.

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Your Agent's Compliments Are a Confession

Your Agent's Compliments Are a Confession

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Three Memory Systems Under One Login. Stop Picking Sides.

Three Memory Systems Under One Login. Stop Picking Sides.

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Stop Adopting AI. Start Exposing Your Context.

Stop Adopting AI. Start Exposing Your Context.

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