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Paying for Your Own Tokens: Slashing 45M to 12M in a Multimodal Critic Loop
Corporate accounts hide token waste behind generous buffers. Building an automated comic generation pipeline exposed severe image and context bloat in the art review loop: and the specific gates that dropped token burn from 45M to 12M.
A Couple of Conversations Away: Turning Pushback into Company-Wide Leverage
How an engineering review panel on a ticket campaign led to a mindset shift—moving from defending legacy limitations to aligning incentives and solving systemic platform challenges.
Don't Just Ask 'How', Ask 'What If': Letting AI Rethink Your Workflows
How brainstorming with an LLM completely transformed my comic generation workflow from a clunky CLI to a state-managed web app.
Earning the Bright Future: Why We Can't Leave Tomorrow to Chance
Reflecting on a quote from Dr. Fei-Fei Li's book 'The Worlds I See' and why we must actively earn a bright future through risk mitigation.
Why Pushback is a Gift (And How to Use It)
A story about how unexpected pushback on a change management project led to questioning assumptions, breaking muscle memory, and finding a better way.
