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Claude Code Workflows Are Here. Don’t Use Them Like an Intern Swarm.
I wanted more agents.
That was the wrong goal.
What I actually wanted was a more deterministic way to coordinate agents: clean context, focused roles, parallel work without one giant conversation turning into sludge, and a process I could...
I Was Wasting 31% of My Context Window Before I Fixed My MCP Setup
Loading every tool all the time is the tax.
I Asked My AI Agent to Steal My Secrets. It Worked.
I tested the obvious fixes. The one everyone reaches for first is not a security boundary.
My AI Agent Burned 1.2B Tokens. A $0 Audit Showed Me Where.
Harness engineering isn't a research paper. It's a weekly habit that reads the logs you already have.
I Routed 2,415 AI Agent Turns Across 6 Models. It Cost $76.77
The Single-Provider Trap
I spent $100/month on Claude Code. Then another $20 on Codex. Then Gemini. Each one promised to be the best coding model.
The models were not the problem. The product boundary was.
Claude Code will not let me s...
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