never waste a token

kept by eddie jun 17

Putting a durable buffer between AI agents and LLM providers prevents token waste and re-billing when a process crashes mid-stream, with resumable streaming and crash recovery using the same mechanism.

Introduction | Headroom
Headroom claims 87% token reduction with 100% accuracy by compressing tool outputs, logs, and other LLM context before model inference.
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Let Me Droid That For You: What 780K Agent Searches Reveal
Analysis of 780K AI agent web searches reveals a dominant pattern: exploratory search followed by specific fetch, with 75% of queries related to software development.
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I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
Running multiple $10K MRR businesses on a $20/month stack with SQLite, a VPS, and minimal services is possible, but the approach is controversial among developers.
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Most AI Work Can Wait
Routing layer design, not model choice, drives cost efficiency by sending 70-80% of AI traffic to cheap local or async models.
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pi + ghostty running entirely in a cloudflare workers durable object. sqlite based file system + js code exec + cron support. The best part
pi and ghostty run inside a Cloudflare Workers durable object, using SQLite for file storage and supporting JS execution, cron, and worker site deployment.
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