Vol. III · Issue 14 · NOV 2026 · Established MMXXIV
Essays · experiments · the things we ship

AI, agents, and the things we build together.

I'm Boris. I write about building with AI: the engineering, the architecture decisions, the lessons learned shipping agents in production. Everything on this site runs on curate-me.ai.

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03NOV
Architecture Deep Dive· 33 min read4 agents· $17.18 AI cost

Hill-Climbing a Small Decision Model: What Four Real Jobs and $5 Taught Us

The follow-up to our decision models note. We hill-climbed Jev on four real jobs: judging agent reports, second-guessing the security scanner, starting agents from chat, and retrying failed runs. Twenty-eight changes, scored on a tuning set and then once on held-out data. What moved the scores, what didn't, and the ten lessons we're carrying into the platform.

#decision-models#jev#llm-evals#hill-climbing
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03NOV
Technical Overview· 20 min read4 agents· $111.12 AI cost

We Hill-Climbed This Blog's SEO With Our Own Agent. The Score Rose to 92. Search Hasn't Noticed Yet.

We scored its-boris.com, ran our platform's SEO agent on it and kept only changes that raised the score with nothing worse. The score went from 77.3 to 92.4, mostly on unproven checks. Agents found answers a little more often. AI search still found us for 1 of 20 questions.

#seo#llm-visibility#ai-agents#agent-evaluation
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02NOV
Architecture Deep Dive· 11 min read2 agents· $14.33 AI cost

We Gated Agent Upgrades on a Score. 46% of Top-Scoring Reports Failed Our Audit.

A new agent version that scored worse than the best one was thrown away. Then audits of 165 runs found that 46% of reports scoring 85 or higher failed.

#llm-evals#ai-agents#prompt-optimization#agent-evaluation
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01NOV
Architecture Deep Dive· 14 min read3 agents· $29.07 AI cost

Agent Harness vs a Single LLM Call: Why Our $0.875 Job Dropped to $0.0016

The same AI news job cost about 500 times less after we moved it off an agent harness. A controlled replay put the harness itself at about 2x.

#agent-harness#llm-costs#ai-agents#claude-code
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