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Token Count Is Not Engineering Quality

Token Count Is Not Engineering Quality

Picture an agent that keeps hitting the same class of ticket. Every time, it reasons from scratch, burns a large token budget, and lands on the same fix it landed on last time. Nothing breaks, so nobody profiles it. That's exactly the moment worth stopping for, because the

Agents Are Becoming Serverless Functions With Judgment

Agents Are Becoming Serverless Functions With Judgment

Microsoft embedded agents inside Azure Functions, extending serverless computing to include reasoning. The serverless agents runtime treats an AI agent as a function that can reason. You define agents in markdown files, wire them to triggers, configure tools, and deploy the whole app like any other function project. The runtime

The Agent Was Authorized. The Purchase Was Still Wrong.

The Agent Was Authorized. The Purchase Was Still Wrong.

Payment networks solve three problems: identity, authorization, and settlement. They confirm who made the transaction, whether they had permission, and whether the money arrived. That design worked when humans made purchasing decisions. It does not work when agents do. An agent can pass all three checks and still create an