Jake WangRunning AI agents like production systems: observable, reversible, accountable.https://jakewang.io/I cut 28% of my coding agent's input tokens. The cost fell about 4%.https://jakewang.io/writing/28-percent-fewer-tokens-4-percent-cheaper/https://jakewang.io/writing/28-percent-fewer-tokens-4-percent-cheaper/A pre-registered experiment on trimming Codex's built-in instructions. Fewer tokens, almost the same cost, and worse results.Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTAn AI-assisted PR is still your PRhttps://jakewang.io/writing/an-ai-assisted-pr-is-still-your-pr/https://jakewang.io/writing/an-ai-assisted-pr-is-still-your-pr/I typed four sentences. AI agents found a quadratic memory bug in SPIRV-Tools, fixed it and opened the pull request. What was left for me.Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTOne bad decision, six missing layershttps://jakewang.io/writing/one-bad-decision-six-missing-layers/https://jakewang.io/writing/one-bad-decision-six-missing-layers/An after-action review of the PocketOS database deletion. What the agent did, and the six infrastructure decisions that made it so hard to recover from.Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT