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Agents Run My Startup

Current audience-facing production stories paired with episodes from the Agents Run My Startup video series. This is intentionally episodic and may mix blog posts with external video entries on its landing page.

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We 10×ed Our AWS Bill by Checking Our AWS Bill

Our dashboard showed $16.67. Asking AWS what it cost added $229.35, and the dashboard hid that charge by construction. Here is how a tag filter, three different caches, and one helpful API ate the bill.
Aug 7, 2026 / 5 min read

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The complete sequence

We 10×ed Our AWS Bill by Checking Our AWS Bill