Eliminating cruft from the codebase
How the BLOAT was banished, and what it takes to maintain a lean, mean, blogging machine.
Context Engineering
Standing instructions, skills and token budgets for long-running AI agents.
The weight of standing agent instructions
One file of agent instructions grew to over 1,700 lines and cost 25,000 tokens before I'd typed a single prompt. The BLOAT, and how to fight it.