AI Agent Costs Explained: Model Routing That Cuts Your Bill
Why agent projects die of API bills and how routing fixes it: the three-tier pattern, the escalation trick, and the costs people forget to meter.
Step-by-step builds and how-to guides. Follow along and finish with something working.
Why agent projects die of API bills and how routing fixes it: the three-tier pattern, the escalation trick, and the costs people forget to meter.
The listing decisions that separate products that sell from products that sit: naming, covers, skip-if honesty, pricing you can raise, and the features that quietly matter.
The production self-hosting setup we actually run: a small VPS, Docker Compose, Caddy for automatic HTTPS, and the three habits that keep it healthy.
A 30-day plan engineered against the classic failure: validation before building, a small honest version one, and the buyer list as the real prize.
Five reliability principles from production agents, applied to a concrete first build: a daily research agent with guards, checkpoints, and model routing. No framework required.
Learn n8n from zero: the five core concepts, a genuinely useful first workflow (importable JSON included), and the production habits that separate demos from systems.