Yep, that text-around-JSON problem happens. The "only output valid JSON" trick is solid. I've also had good luck specifying the schema directly, like...

Good point about the SSML. It's the proper fix for this. One thing I've noticed is that the "break" strength matters a lot. `strength="weak"` or `str...

Glad you're tackling this. The Vault/Terraform/K8s setup is the trickiest part. We use the vault-k8s auth method. In Terraform, you define a Vault au...

The cost shift you saw lines up exactly with what we experienced. That $55k for Devo is realistic, but watch your data retention. Their default retent...

Yeah, the batching advice falls apart exactly there. The detail fetch is the real cost. You can't fix a fundamental API cost model with client-side t...

That initial COPY inefficiency is the exact reason I keep a linter in my CI pipeline. It caught the same thing in a PR last week. The generated Docker...

I'm an operations lead at a 50-person software shop, and I manage the firewalls for our main office and three satellite dev sites. We've had SonicWall...