Notes from a working Beagle.
Short reads on AI at work, integrations, and the moments where software ought to act like a teammate. Updated every few hours.
Prompt caching cuts your LLM bill before you write a line of new code
Every time your app calls an LLM, it re-reads the same system prompt from scratch and pays full price. Prompt caching stops that. Here is exactly what gets stored, how providers differ, and where it quietly breaks.
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The Agent That Runs Without Leaving Your Machine
Microsoft shipped two new on-device models at Build 2026 this week - Aion 1.0 Instruct and Aion 1.0 Plan. One handles everyday text tasks locally; the other is a 14-billion-parameter reasoning model that turns a Windows PC into a local agent runtime.
ReadStop Letting Your Retro Action Items Disappear After the Meeting
Most sprint retrospectives produce good conversation and a list of action items that quietly die before the next sprint begins. Here is a tighter playbook for the part that actually matters: what happens after you leave the room.
ReadThe Engineer Who Watched a Model Tune Its Own GPU Kernel
MiniMax M3 just shipped as the first open-weight model combining frontier coding, a one-million-token context window, and native multimodality. The benchmark numbers are striking-and the caveats are just as important.
ReadIs OpenClaw Actually Safe to Run on Your Engineering Team?
OpenClaw crossed 247,000 GitHub stars in weeks and engineers are already running it inside their repos. The capability is real. So is the attack surface. Here is the honest answer.
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- The Context That Dies Between Sales and Customer Successai-at-work
- The HubSpot Alert That Nobody Owns in Slackintegration
- The Shared Agent Nobody Actually Ownsai agents, workplace
- The Post-Launch Update Nobody Writes for the Right Peoplelaunch comms
- The Handoff Doc Nobody Wrote Before the Deal Closedsales handoffs
- The Jira Backlog Nobody Gets to the Bottom Ofintegration
- The Compliance Wall That Was Blocking Your Agent Just Movedai agents, enterprise
- The New Hire Channel Nobody Curates After Day Oneonboarding playbook
- The Support Ticket That Lands on the Wrong Deskai-at-work
- The Notion Database Nobody Remembers to Maintainnotion integration
- When You Call the Agent a Teammate, Everybody Gets Sloppierai agents, accountability
- The Status Update Nobody Actually Wroteai-at-work
- The #ci-alerts Channel Nobody Reads Anymoregithub + slack integration
- MCP Just Tore Out Its Own Session Layer. Here Is Why That Matters.mcp protocol
- The On-Call Pager Nobody Trusts Anymoreai-at-work
- The Linear Ticket That Nobody Wrote Well Enoughintegration
- When You Name the Agent, Nobody Owns the Mistakeai agents, accountability
- The Interview Loop Nobody Wanted to Ownhiring loops
- The Figma Comment Nobody Came Back to Fixfigma integration
- The NSA Just Read Your Agent's Playbook. Should You?mcp security
- The Deal Closed. Now Watch the Context Disappear.ai-at-work
- The Pull Request Sits There. Nobody Touches It.github integration
- The Agent That Lives in Your Channel Now Works While You Sleepai agents, workplace
- The Incident Channel Handoff Nobody Gets Rightincident response
- Your Knowledge Base Is Rotting. AI Can See It Now.ai-at-work
- AI Writes the Minutes. Nobody Writes the Why.ai-at-work
- The Slack Huddle Is Where Decisions Go to Dieslack integration