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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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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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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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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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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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Beyond Naive Summarization: Context Compaction with Temporal Memory
Why long-running AI assistants bleed money on repeated history, and the memory architecture (compaction, caching, extraction) that stops it.
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