Tech Thaumaturge Weekly
A weekly letter for working engineers. Practical AI you can use, honest takes on careers, and what is actually changing in the industry. No hype, no hand-waving, no "here is why everything you know is obsolete." Short enough to read with one coffee.
The AI buffet closed. Now, the meter's running!
Put a hard ceiling on your AI spend before you ever hit "go": a monthly cap, a per-run budget, and the right-sized model for the job. Do that and a runaway agent cannot eat your month in an afternoon.
That is the whole defense. The more interesting question is why you suddenly need one. Flat-rate...
Jul 19, 2026
How AI Agents Fail (and How to Catch Them)
When a chatbot is wrong, it says a wrong thing. You read it, you notice, you move on. When an agent is wrong, it does wrong things, over and over, at machine speed, and a small mistake compounds into a real mess before you look up.
An agent is AI that doesn't just answer; it takes actions in a lo...
Jul 12, 2026
