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I Gave My 9-Agent Marketing Platform Away as Open Source
STRAŦUM v1 is now MIT-licensed and public. Nine agents, two Postgres schemas, ten locales — and a table that shipped with Row Level Security switched off, reachable by anyone holding the key that loads in the browser. Here is what I gave away, what I would not build the same way again, and why you are welcome to fork it and build your own.
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My AI Bill Went From $200/Month to $45. I Shipped More, Not Less.
June: $57.01. July: $33.09. Two months after switching to DeepSeek V4 Pro via OpenCode, my AI costs dropped 75%. The commit history proves I shipped more, not less — 786 commits across 4 products. Here's the full breakdown.
I Evaluated 40 AI Podcasts Across 7 Languages. Six Pipeline Fixes Later, Here's What Improved.
I built an eval framework to grade my AI podcast pipeline across 40 real episodes in 7 languages. The review step was making scripts worse (3.34 → 2.91). Citation URLs all looked fake (score: 1.28). Chinese was the weakest locale (2.88). Six fixes, one day, and a new model later — here are the before/after numbers and every change I made.
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How I Write System Prompts That Actually Get Enforced (After My AI Hosts Said 'Trời ơi' 13 Times)
No. 05AIThe One Question That Killed an Entire Curriculum Architecture in a Week
No. 06AI6 Months, 3 Game Projects, 0 Shipped
No. 07AIThe Code Was the Easy Part of Shipping Prova
No. 08AII Tried to Clip My Course into a YouTube Video. Here's Why I Rebuilt It Instead.
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