LLM

If you have built any non-trivial agent or RAG pipeline, you have probably been shocked by an API bill at least once. Not the training-side cost. The “every call stuffs a wall of context into the prompt” cost. For me it was Claude Code sessions: the tool outputs, the build logs, the RAG chunks I had been dumping in raw, then paying for by the million tokens. Then I ran into chopratejas/headroom, currently sitting at the top of GitHub’s monthly trending list with +41,093 stars this month. Its tagline reads: ...

This is the kind of post that does not look like much when you start, and then it does not let go of you. On June 6, 2026, a software engineer writing under the name poisonfountain published a long, careful essay on Bear Blog titled “LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don’t know what to do.” It reached Hacker News #11 the next morning: 787 points, 768 comments, a comment-to-score ratio of 0.98. That is not a “people loved it” hit. It is a “people argued about it” hit. The comments are the story. ...