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The Paperwork Outweighed the Product: What Testing My Own Pipeline Cost

Part 7 of Building My Agentic Workflow in Public. Part 6 said do not be obedient, verify, because your own context window is small. This is the first time I turned that rule on my own process. Over six parts I built a pipeline that can design, plan, and ship a batch of features mostly on its own. Then I finally pointed it at two real repos, back to back, on the same day. One of them took about ten hours and burned close to ten million tokens to ship roughly five features. I sat with that for a minute. Ten hours. Ten million tokens. Five features. ...

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Obedience Is Futile: The Guardrail You Build Against Your Own Limited Context Window

Part 6 of Building My Agentic Workflow in Public. Part 5 settled which engine runs my loop. This one is about a different bottleneck, and it is not in the machine. It is in my chair. Way back in Part 0 I said the bottleneck in all of this is human. You can spin up two hundred agents, but you cannot keep up with two hundred agents, because your attention does not scale the way agent count does. That was the first face of the limit. This post is about the second face, and it is quieter and more dangerous: my context window. ...

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