Andrew's Substack
Andrew KulakovMy personal Substack
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Token Savings in Practice
So, Rule 0. Do not generate what you do not need. At all.
Every method for spending less on agentic development sits downstream of that line. Model choice, caching, reasoning budgets, fan-out — all of it comes after.
The biggest line on t...
The Watch
I wake up and reach for the phone. Not to scroll. Not because I’m weak. I want to know what time it is — a legitimate need. Utility, not desire.
But a phone never shows only the thing you came for. It shows the thing you came for surrounde...
The best deal in AI isn’t for the people who build
There’s a Stanford course on the economics of AI — MS&E 435. I’m two lectures in. It covers what it costs to run AI at scale: inference pricing, compute infrastructure, serving costs per request.
That’s not what this is about.
Since the b...
The AI Dictionary I Keep Re-Explaining
I have this conversation about twice a week. On a sales call, in a project sync, with a client who read something on LinkedIn the night before. Someone says “agent,” or “harness,” or “we want it AI-native,” and we go back and forth for ten...
Ventures, You're Wrong About FDE
Frontier vendors are selling against the services companies they want to replace, and I’ve spent eight years inside one of the targets. The pitch: a couple dozen forward-deployed engineers, a pile of agents, one person who takes a project f...
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