Writing
RSSAutovacuum's scale factor fails silently on large tables
2026-08-09 · 5 minThe default dead-tuple threshold is a percentage of the table, so it grows as the table grows. Past a certain size autovacuum effectively stops running, and nothing in the log says so.
postgres · vacuum · operations
Three bugs in my agent pipeline that never logged an error
2026-08-09 · 5 minThe search step returned zero results for every query and reported success. Two more like it. All three were found by deterministic checks, not by monitoring.
llm · debugging · observability
What a multi-agent research pipeline actually costs to run
2026-08-09 · 5 minFour agents, one document, one cent. The writer takes three quarters of the spend and the researcher takes none of it, which changes where optimisation is worth doing.
llm · cost · observability