AnchorStack Articles
Writing on AI engineering
and production-ready software.
Deep dives on LLM cost, reliability, and building software that holds up when it matters.
AI-Built App Production Readiness Checklist
AI tools optimise for the happy path. Production is everything else. Ten categories, the questions I ask on every review, and what good looks like for each one.
The Cost of Being Polite: Token Consumption in LLMs
Does saying please to an AI model change its answers? I ran 452 trials across three models to find out and the real cost driver was not what I expected.
Is Your AI-Built App Ready for Production?
AnchorStack audits the production risk in AI-built apps — free.