Writing

Technical

Agent memory, cost governance, reproducibility, and where structure helps.

• Did Your AI Agent Quietly Blow All Your Money?
  05 Sep 20263 min read

  Why a budget enforced across a whole run catches the overspend that per-call limits miss, and what TokenOps does about it.

• Debugging Multi-Agent Systems: Your Trace Tree Is Lying
  12 Aug 20268 min read

  Naive attribution builds a confidently wrong parent-child tree: nothing crashes, the trace just points at the wrong code for an hour. Opening a span before the wrapped function runs, rather than after, fixes it.

• 40% of AI Agent Projects Will Be Canceled by 2027. Token Governance Is How You Avoid It.
  09 Aug 202612 min read

  Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027, with cost among the reasons. Four steps out: instrument, attribute, surface, enforce.

• You Recorded the Incident. Now Prove Your Fix Actually Works.
  22 Jul 20266 min read

  Cut-point replay: freeze the run rather than the model, drop your new code into the middle of a recorded incident, and play everything upstream back byte for byte.

• Why Agents Forget
  07 Jun 20269 min read

  Models are stateless functions with frozen weights, so agents get faster at repeating work rather than better at it. Persistence is largely solved; learning into the weights is not.

• Your Agent Failed in Prod. Good Luck Reproducing It.
  03 Jun 202623 min read

  Temperature zero buys sampling determinism, not system determinism. Batch composition, GPU concurrency and model drift all move the output, so record the run and replay it instead of chasing bitwise reproducibility.

• Spec-Driven Development: When Structure Helps and When It Becomes Tax
  01 Jun 202611 min read

  A U-shaped cost curve. Spec it when ambiguity is expensive; past the optimum every extra rule just consumes the agent's finite reasoning budget.

Off Script

Personal writing on ambition, work, relationships, and the strange years between becoming someone and figuring out who you actually want to be.

• The Privilege Paradox
  27 Aug 2026Thoughts on social conditioning
• Evolve. Evolve. Evolve.
  26 Aug 2026Quiet pivots
• The Price of an Open Heart
  24 Aug 2026What it is to be a human
• Did You Get This Life Just to Coast?
  23 Aug 2026On audacity
• Speaking at AI Engineer World's Fair, San Francisco
  22 Aug 20266000 engineers, 3 accepted proposals, 0 hype
• The Billionaire Myth and Your 100% Survival Rate
  21 Aug 2026On unlearning societal metrics

Elsewhere

• TokenOps: real-time, run-scoped cost control for AI agents
  Microsoft Command Line

  TokenOps featured in Microsoft's developer newsletter.

• Peer-reviewed research
  11 publications173 citations

  Applied machine learning and network measurement. Full list on the research page.