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Ending is better than mending
Huxley wrote it as dystopian propaganda for mindless disposability. In the agent era the economics it described have quietly become correct — for code. When the agent produces the wrong artifact, mending spends your scarce attention; ending spends cheap tokens. Revert the commits. Sometimes nuke the repo.
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The unit economics of running cattle
How to make the math work when twenty headless workers are spending money without you. Why the pet model has no built-in cost discipline, what the cattle model requires, and what to measure when tokens are the wrong unit.
