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Author: michaelkc

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 EDIT 24/03: Picked up a [Lenovo Yoga Aura 14" with Intel U7-258V and 32 GB ram](https://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/Yoga_Slim_7_14ILL10?M=83JX00AAMX) for 5.500 DKR (~USD 850), 
 by trading in an old[^1] PC. 
 
-[^1]: How old? Let's just say its CPU was dual core [BobCat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcat_(microarchitecture)) 
+[^1]: How old? Let's just say its CPU was dual core [Bobcat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcat_(microarchitecture)) 
 
 ### Minions
 Price for best name for "semi-autonomous coding agents" goes to Stripe - I hope "Minions" will take as an industry standard. But what is up with that page background?
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 I have started trialing some of the workflows on a non-critical repo.
 
 [Welcome to Peli's Agent Factory](https://github.github.com/gh-aw/blog/2026-01-12-welcome-to-pelis-agent-factory/)
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+### AI Benefits - But at What Cost?
+I have dialed down my attempts to keep up with the latest LLM coding news, as drinking from the firehose is very tiresome. Still, being 95%+ of my Tech Feed on Linkedin and Twitter, a lot of stuff goes by, and I try to pick up the important stuff. But at this point, I would rather focus on actually using it for building real features, rather than chase the latest "Ralph Wiggum"-style hyperbole.
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+Anyway, this perspective on the actual costs of the AI infrastructure is interesting. You can only keep up turning $100 into $10 at scale for so long - but at this point I think it is hard to predict if the endgame is going to be price hikes, cheaper-per-token models (ideally runnable on consumer hardware) or AGI (unlikely but...)
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+[AI Benefits - But at What Cost?](https://ardalis.com/ai-benefits---but-at-what-cost/)
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+### Two Beliefs About Coding Agents
+"Most talented developers do not appreciate the impact of the intuitive knowledge they bring to their coding agent."
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+I think this is accurate. When I see [Uncle Bob](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/2032798591501078576), David Fowler and [Kelly Sommers](https://kellabyte.substack.com/p/building-a-distributed-sql-database) report great success with agentic coding, I am sure they are pouring tonnes of knowledge into their prompting. I do the same; over the last two days I had Copilot code up first an implementation of [dPoP-RT](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rosomakho-oauth-dpop-rt/) then of [dPoP with Bearer access tokens](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9449), both on top of Duende IdentityServer. If I had not been quite specific about what I wanted during planning, I am not sure the resulting implementations would have useful. Then again, I _am_ sure that I could not deliver that as a potentially shippable feature in a day without LLM assistance. 
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+[Two Beliefs About Coding Agents](https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/25/two-things-i-believe-about-coding-agents.html)