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DEVELOPER TOOLS 2026-09-03 ·Effloow Editorial

Google Antigravity 2.0: Can Its Browser-Driving Agents Survive Real Repo Work?

We installed Google Antigravity 2.0 in our lab and put its Agent Manager and browser-driving agents through a scripted battery of real repo tasks, including a browser-driven E2E test. Here is what worked, what broke, and whether it justifies a seat.
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AI INFRASTRUCTURE 2026-09-03 ·Effloow Editorial

From Notebook to Production SLA: Running vLLM on Kubernetes with the Production Stack

A practitioner's guide to moving vLLM from a single-GPU notebook demo to a Kubernetes deployment with measured p50/p95 latency under concurrency, grounded in the vLLM production-stack release and the 2026 GLM-5.2 production SLA architecture.
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AI INFRASTRUCTURE 2026-09-02 ·Effloow Editorial

Your Agent Is Not a User: Giving AI Agents Their Own OAuth Identity with Scoped, Revocable Credentials

Why sharing your users' OAuth tokens with AI agents breaks audit, least privilege, and enterprise deals — and how to run agent identity with OBO exchange on a local sandbox.ocal stack.
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AI INFRASTRUCTURE 2026-08-31 ·Effloow Editorial

Sonnet 5 Pricing: Why a Cheaper Token Can Cost You More

Sonnet 5 costs a third less per token and counts your text differently. The break-even math, plus the caching and routing architecture that decides it.
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AI INFRASTRUCTURE 2026-08-30 ·Effloow Editorial

Your LLM Bill Is an Architecture Problem, Not a Prompt Problem

Provider invoices bill credentials, not customers. Three LLM cost attribution patterns, a list-price model, and which control to build first.
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COST OPTIMIZATION 2026-08-29 ·Effloow Editorial

Semantic Caching vs. Prompt Caching: Where Break-Even Sits

Two caching layers on one workload, priced from Anthropic's official cache rates. Where each pays, and the measurement that tells you which fits.
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DEVOPS 2026-08-29 ·Effloow Editorial

Supabase Removes logs.all on 2026-09-23: Port Your Queries First

Supabase kills the logs.all endpoint on 2026-09-23 and the replacement speaks ClickHouse SQL only. The inventory scan and query rewrites to ship first.
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AI INFRASTRUCTURE 2026-08-28 ·Effloow Editorial

OpenAI Kills the Videos API With No Successor: A 4-Week Exit Plan

The Videos API and every sora-2 model shut down 2026-09-24 with an empty replacement column. The inventory scan and exit matrix to decide before the date.
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DEVELOPER TOOLS 2026-08-27 ·Effloow Editorial

Your Coding Agent's Allowlist Is Not a Sandbox

An allowlist approves names, not behaviors. Why environment poisoning turns a trusted command into code execution, and a config auditor that finds it.
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AI INFRASTRUCTURE 2026-08-26 ·Effloow Editorial

The Agent Spend Cap That Admits It Can Be Exceeded

Claude's Managed Agents budget documents that it can land past its own cap. The production architecture that actually bounds an autonomous agent's bill.
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DEVELOPER TOOLS 2026-08-25 ·Effloow Editorial

Stop Parsing Raw JSON: Type-Safe LLM Output Pipelines with BAML

Why json.loads() on model output is a production liability, and how BAML's contract-first schemas and schema-aligned parsing remove a whole failure class.
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AI INFRASTRUCTURE 2026-08-24 ·Effloow Editorial

Multi-Tenant LLM Gateway: Enforcing Virtual Key Budgets & Quotas

How to give every customer of your AI product a hard spend cap and rate limit with LiteLLM virtual keys, before one tenant's bug becomes your bill.
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