Articles
Notes on things I’ve built and broken.
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The bot that cloned your repo to find out it had nothing to do
Renovate had a cache built to avoid cloning repositories, and cloned them anyway, partly in order to write the cache. A series of small PRs cut clones on the hosted app by 40 to 50 percent, almost none of which made anything faster.
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Cutting LLM inference cost by 70% in a six-step agentic pipeline
Chained LLM calls re-send everything that came before, so input-token cost grows with the square of the step count. Two changes fixed it.