BMD HODL Series' Articles

Patrick Hughes

Apr 21

One Person, 12 Agents, a Holding Company

#aiagents #holdingcompany #automation #solofounder

5 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 21

When Tokens Cost 12 Cents Per Million, The Bottleneck Isn't Cost. It's Control.

#aiagents #agentguard #nvidia #blackwell

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 21

Your AI Agent's MCP Server Is a Security Hole

#aiagents #security #mcp #agentguard

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3 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 22

AI Chose Nukes 95% of the Time. Here's What That Means for Your Agents.

#aiagents #aisafety #agentsecurity #productionai

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 22

AI security is now a token-burning contest. Who's watching the bill?

#aisecurity #aicosts #simonwillison #agentguard

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 23

What AI-native startups actually look like in 2026 (and I'm running one from Tennessee)

#indiemaker #claudecode #aiagents #buildinpublic

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 23

The flat-fee era is over. How to control your AI agent costs in 2026.

#aicosts #anthropic #tokenpricing #agentguard

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 23

AI Agent Memory: How It Works and When You Actually Need It

#aiagents #agentmemory #continuallearning #architecture

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4 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 24

Claude Code caching is eating your budget. Here's what's happening.

#claudecode #aicosts #promptcaching #agentguard

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4 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 24

GPU Prices Up 48% in Two Months. I Run LLMs in My Garage.

#localllm #gpu #infrastructure #agentguard

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 25

When to Replace Your AI Agent With a Script

#aiagents #agenticcoding #architecture #agentguard

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 25

Your Agent Project Might Be in the Wrong Quadrant

#aiagents #strategy #tunguzmatrix #agenteconomics

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 26

Anthropic's Advisor Tool Is the Cost-Split Pattern You Should Already Be Running

#aiagents #costoptimization #anthropic #agentguard

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 26

We Built Martin Fowler's Feedback Flywheel Before He Published It

#aiagents #feedbackloops #martinfowler #agentguard

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 27

Three Studies This Month Changed Everything About AI Agent Safety

#aiagents #aisafety #agentguard #mythos

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 27

Nation-State Hackers Are Targeting Your AI Agent Keys

#aiagents #security #supplychain #npm

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 27

Aymo AI Pricing Plans 2026: Free vs $39/mo — Worth It?

#aitools #aymoai #pricing #aiplatforms

5 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 28

If AI agents can spend money, who's holding the credit card?

#agentguard #aiagents #spendcontrols #aibudgets

2 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 28

HTTP 402: the payment status code the web ignored for 33 years

#http #x402 #payments #aiagents

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Patrick Hughes

Apr 28

A2A Protocol: How AI Agents Talk to Each Other

#aiagents #a2aprotocol #agentinteroperability #multiagentsystems

5 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 29

Why API keys break for autonomous AI agents

#aiagents #x402 #autonomousagents #apidesign

2 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 29

I built a memory API that AI agents can pay for

#x402 #aiagents #agenticpayments #base

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Patrick Hughes

Apr 30

PostHog Rebuilt Their AI Architecture Twice. Here Are the 5 Rules They Learned.

#aiagents #agentfirst #productengineering #posthog

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 30

Meta Burned 60 Trillion Tokens in 30 Days. Here Is How to Not Be Meta.

#aiagents #costcontrol #agentguard #tokenmanagement

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

Apr 30

Prompt Injection Attacks on AI Agents: What Business Owners Need to Know

#aiagents #security #promptinjection #businessautomation

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 1

OpenAI's guardrails don't control costs. Here's the gap.

#openaiagentssdk #agentguard #costcontrol #aiagents

2 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 1

agent-sre on PyPI: what SRE for AI agents actually means

#agentsre #agentguard #sre #aiagents

2 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 1

9 Out of 428 LLM API Routers Are Injecting Malicious Code Right Now

#aiagents #security #supplychain #agentguard

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 1

AI Chose Nukes 95% of the Time. Here's What That Means for Your Agents.

#aiagents #safety #agentguard #runtimeenforcement

2 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 2

Cloudflare agents can now buy domains. The case for runtime spend rails just got concrete.

#aiagents #cloudflare #stripe #agentpayments

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 2

How to Hire an AI Agent Developer (2026 Guide)

#aiagents #hiring #customdevelopment #smallbusiness

5 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 2

Multi-Agent AI for Business: Do You Need It in 2026?

#aiagents #multiagentsystems #automation #business

5 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 3

llama.cpp n_gpu_layers Explained: -1, 0 & VRAM Guide

#llamacpp #localllm #gpuoffloading #ngpulayers

7 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 3

Raspberry Pi 5 Local Voice AI: What Works in 2026

#raspberrypi #edgeai #voiceassistant #localllm

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 4

MCP vs Skills: a practical decision guide for builders

#mcp #claudeskills #aiagents #agentguard

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Patrick Hughes

May 4

How a 9-Person Startup Replaced Its Dev Team With AI

#aiagents #multiagentsystems #claudecode #openclaw

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 5

7% of vibe-coded apps ship with wide-open databases

#agentguard #aiagents #security #vibecoding

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 5

When a $100B company burns its 2026 AI budget by April

#agentguard #costcontrol #aiagents

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 6

Your AI Agent Will Eventually Delete Prod

#agentsafety #agentguard #incidentpostmortem #aiagents

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4 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 6

6 Agent Patterns From Claude Code's Leaked Source

#aiagents #claudecode #architecture #production

5 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 6

The Async Automation Playbook: How to Eliminate Manual Work Without Meetings

#automation #async #n8n #workflow

2 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 6

How I Let an AI Agent Run 100 ML Experiments Overnight on a $500 GPU

#aiagents #machinelearning #consumergpu #autonomousresearch

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 7

What Is MCP? The Protocol That Makes AI Agents Actually Useful for Business

#aiagents #mcp #modelcontextprotocol #businessautomation

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Patrick Hughes

May 7

Why 88% of AI Agent Pilots Fail (And How to Beat It)

#aiagents #implementation #production #deployment

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 8

Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than APIs. Here's When To Use Each.

#aiagents #cost #computeruse #agentguard

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 8

Custom vs. Off-the-Shelf AI Agents for Small Business

#aiagents #smallbusiness #automation #customdevelopment

4 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 9

n8n vs Make vs Custom Scripts: When to Use What for AI Workflow Automation

#n8n #make #automation #aiworkflow

2 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 9

The Future of AI and Next.js

#ai #nextjs #agenticdevelopment #claude

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 10

One Agent Skill, Three Registries: PyPI, Claude, and skills.sh

#agentguard #skills #aiagents #python

3 min read

Patrick Hughes

May 10

April 2026: Every AI Subscription Plan Broke for Builders

#aiagents #agentguard #costcontrol #codex

3 min read