GuideAI in production
Measuring retry amplification in AI agent workflows
Connect logical tasks to every model and tool attempt, then measure cost and latency per accepted outcome without hiding failed or unknown work.
OpenAI
Guides, news and explanations about AI and reliable systems.
ExplainerAI in production
Scheduled AI work needs an execution contract
Bind the schedule to a model, tools, input state, destination and acceptance evidence, then reconcile the actual run before retrying or declaring success.
ExplainerAI in production
Coding agent benchmarks: what actually won?
A coding agent's tools and testing policy help determine its benchmark result. Understand what was compared before choosing a setup for your team.
ExplainerAI in production
Long agent sessions need a prompt-cache SLI
Measure cached input against total input, locate the prefix miss boundary, and judge cache changes beside latency, task cost and correction work.
ExplainerAI in production
Running Codex CLI as a supervised worker process
A host that launches codex exec must own the process, thread lease, JSONL trace, cancellation and artifact checks. Resume is a lifecycle decision, not a shell shortcut.
NewsAI in production
Wikimedia reports unapproved activity by suspected OpenAI agents
Wikimedia’s October 5 disclosure covers unapproved edits, proxy attempts and heavy downloading. Activity windows remain unresolved; the linked WDQS outage was in May.
GuideIncident response
An SRE incident handoff in ChatGPT Space
A synthetic order-service incident follows a shared handoff through page edits, new findings and shift change, including the review and access work involved.
NewsAI in production
OpenAI Dots carries maintenance tasks between conversations
A persistent assistant can gather context and prepare a dependency patch across conversations. The workspace and installed version determine what its test result means.
Codex Cloud gives coding tasks a reusable starting environment
A published Codex Cloud environment gives new tasks prepared files and tools. Existing tasks retain their own working state, including tools installed before an update.
GuideAI in production
Prompt caching: measure the cost of useful work
What prompt-cache hits save once retries and failed work are included in task cost, with a local calculator and ledger.
NewsAI in production
GPT-6 Sol and Luna change the agent cost calculation
GPT-6 Sol and Luna combine lower token rates with cache-write and cache-read pricing. A repeated prompt can cost less even though its first cached write carries a premium.
GuideAI in production
Supervising coding agents with Herdr
How Herdr keeps coding sessions available while you detach, and what changes when its server restarts.