Context Windows vs Tokens vs Memory: The Unified Hands-On Guide (Save 1250x on LLM Costs)
Author(s): Udaykiran Estari Originally published on Towards AI. Context Windows vs Tokens vs Memory: The Unified Hands-On Guide (Save 1250x on LLM Costs) Your LLM doesn’t have memory. Every API call starts from zero, and you’re probably overpaying 1250x by relying on …
Choosing Claude Model and Effort Level in Claude Code
Author(s): Udaykiran Estari Originally published on Towards AI. The Wrong Question Is ‘Which Claude Model Should I Use?’ The fastest way to waste money in Claude Code is not picking the expensive model. It is leaving effort unconstrained, watching a normal coding …
DeepSeek Harness vs Claude Code: A Plugin Architecture Teardown
Author(s): Udaykiran Estari Originally published on Towards AI. Stop comparing marketing pages. We swapped the models underneath both agent harnesses to isolate the architecture from the hype. Every launch-week take treats the new DeepSeek Harness versus Claude Code as a proxy war …
Debugging Autonomous Agents in Production
Author(s): Udaykiran Estari Originally published on Towards AI. Debugging Autonomous Agents in Production When a traditional microservice fails, you get a stack trace. When an autonomous agent fails, you get a polite hallucination that confidently executes the wrong state transition. The era …
Bun’s Rust Rewrite: A Playbook for Large Codebase Migrations
Author(s): Udaykiran Estari Originally published on Towards AI. The 11-day rewrite that sparked an industry debate holds a much deeper lesson: test suite readiness as a hard gate. Bun ported 535,000 lines of Zig into a million lines of Rust in 11 …
Git Worktree: The Parallel Development Revolution
Author(s): Udaykiran Estari Originally published on Towards AI. The Hidden Feature That Powers Your AI Agents You’ve been doing it wrong. Every time you git stash to switch branches, every junk commit you've made to "save" your changes, every time you've lost …
The Claude Code Advisor Pattern: A Production Framework for Cutting AI Costs by 85%
Author(s): Udaykiran Estari Originally published on Towards AI. The Claude Code Advisor Pattern: A Production Framework for Cutting AI Costs by 85% You’re probably using Claude wrong. The $25/month Sonnet subscription isn’t the bargain — it’s the advisor pattern underneath it that …
Claude Code Superpowers: The Team Adoption Decision Framework
Author(s): Udaykiran Estari Originally published on Towards AI. The Problem Isn’t AI Skill — It’s AI Compliance Claude already knows it should write a spec before touching code. It will tell you exactly that if you ask. But the moment you say …
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna: A Practical Tier-Selection Guide
Author(s): Udaykiran Estari Originally published on Towards AI. Why defaulting to the smartest model might be your most expensive routing mistake. OpenAI wants you to believe Sol is the best model in the GPT-5.6 family, but defaulting to it might be your …
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