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Alexey Spinov

I work on keeping AI agents cheap and reliable in production — token cost (FinOps), evals, and MCP tooling. I write up what actually breaks when agents run for real: runnable code, real numbers, hones

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Independent — AI agent operations (FinOps & reliability)

Your LLM Judge Costs More Than the Agent. Gate It in 40 Lines.
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Your LLM Judge Costs More Than the Agent. Gate It in 40 Lines.

#ai #finops #python #agents
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Your Failed Agent Run Burns Most of Its Tokens AFTER It Fails — Measure It in 40 Lines
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Your Failed Agent Run Burns Most of Its Tokens AFTER It Fails — Measure It in 40 Lines

#ai #finops #python #agents
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The Context Tax: Why Step 12 Costs 42x Step 1 (Measure It in 40 Lines)
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The Context Tax: Why Step 12 Costs 42x Step 1 (Measure It in 40 Lines)

#ai #finops #python #agents
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Your Agent's Memory Has a Tax and a Backdoor. Audit Both in 40 Lines
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Your Agent's Memory Has a Tax and a Backdoor. Audit Both in 40 Lines

#ai #security #finops #python
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MCP Tool Drift: Pin the Manifest, Block Rug-Pulls in 40 Lines
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MCP Tool Drift: Pin the Manifest, Block Rug-Pulls in 40 Lines

#mcp #aiagents #security #python
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Blast Radius of an AI Agent's API Key: Score It in 40 Lines
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Blast Radius of an AI Agent's API Key: Score It in 40 Lines

#finops #ai #security #python
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Sliding-Window Spend Guard: the $47K Loop Per-Call Caps Miss
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Sliding-Window Spend Guard: the $47K Loop Per-Call Caps Miss

#finops #ai #python #reliability
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Measure Your MCP Server's Token Tax in 60 Seconds
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Measure Your MCP Server's Token Tax in 60 Seconds

#mcp #finops #ai #python
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A Pre-Execution Gate for AI Agents: 3 Barriers
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A Pre-Execution Gate for AI Agents: 3 Barriers

#ai #python #agents #security
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Your Agent Returns 200 and Lies. Verify Before You Trust
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Your Agent Returns 200 and Lies. Verify Before You Trust

#ai #python #agents #programming
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A $47K Agent Loop: Add a Hard Spend-Cap in 40 Lines
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A $47K Agent Loop: Add a Hard Spend-Cap in 40 Lines

#ai #python #crypto #finops
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Grok Lost $175K to a Tweet: Add a Pre-Send Tx Canary
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Grok Lost $175K to a Tweet: Add a Pre-Send Tx Canary

#ai #security #python #crypto
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