Andre Burgstahler (@r3dtuxedo)

Stop Paying Your Agent to Wait

Long jobs, polling and background work without burning tokens. Every check-in re-sends the whole conversation, so make waiting one quiet command, and for really long jobs write down the state and walk

16h ago · 16 min readr3dtuxedo.hashnode.dev

Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI Just Started Speaking the Same Cost Language

All three now export OpenTelemetry. One local collector and a short script turn it into a single cost ledger, once you fix three fields. TL;DR Between 13 and 15 October, Claude Code, Codex and Gemin

1d ago · 12 min readr3dtuxedo.hashnode.dev

Pin Your MCP Servers

Nearly half of sampled repos start an MCP server with no version. One script checks Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and OpenCode configs for it. Most of the row is pinned. The loose ones are the ones that

2d ago · 14 min readr3dtuxedo.hashnode.dev

How Much Should You Invest in Your AGENTS.md?

This article first appeared on Medium: https://medium.com/@r3dtuxedo/how-much-should-you-invest-in-your-agents-md-69f8e36583bc Less than you think, and in different places than you think. Keep the fil

3d ago · 13 min readr3dtuxedo.hashnode.dev

Define Done as a Command

Many paths in. One gate out. TL;DR "It compiles" and "tests pass" aren't finish lines when the agent wrote the tests. Put a finish-line command in the plan before any code: one command that exits 0

4d ago · 13 min readr3dtuxedo.hashnode.dev

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Stop Paying Your Agent to Wait

Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI Just Started Speaking the Same Cost Language

Pin Your MCP Servers

How Much Should You Invest in Your AGENTS.md?

Define Done as a Command

Andre Burgstahler

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Andre Burgstahler's blogs

Stop Paying Your Agent to Wait

Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI Just Started Speaking the Same Cost Language

Pin Your MCP Servers

How Much Should You Invest in Your AGENTS.md?

Define Done as a Command

Andre Burgstahler

About

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Andre Burgstahler's blogs

Stop Paying Your Agent to Wait

Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI Just Started Speaking the Same Cost Language

Pin Your MCP Servers

How Much Should You Invest in Your AGENTS.md?

Define Done as a Command

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Andre Burgstahler

About

Available for

Andre Burgstahler's blogs

Stop Paying Your Agent to Wait

Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI Just Started Speaking the Same Cost Language

Pin Your MCP Servers

How Much Should You Invest in Your AGENTS.md?

Define Done as a Command