LLM Benchmarks Test Knowledge, Not Behavior

What today’s LLM benchmarks actually measure, what they miss, and why we need behavioral benchmarks instead of more knowledge tests.

2026-05-26 · John Lee

Token Economics: What AI Coding Agents Cost

Two requests with near-identical input tokens, a 46x cost gap. How prompt caching really works, and why agents should be designed around structured state.

2026-05-21 · John Lee

Does Your Coding Agent Need Memory?

Coding agents re-read the same files and re-ask the same questions every day. What memory does for an agent, how it differs from docs, and when it pays off.

2026-05-14 · John Lee

How Are You Managing Your AI's Context Window?

Bigger context windows didn’t give better results. Notes on the context-management problems that keep recurring in real coding agent sessions.

2026-05-11 · John Lee