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We wired a ‘cheap’ model into our CRM and accidentally made pricing changes a production risk

Dev.to · Lars Winstand 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

We wired a ‘cheap’ model into our CRM and accidentally made pricing changes a production risk

Cheap LLMs are great for experiments. They become dangerous when they get wired into your CRM, sales ops, and automations without a portability layer.

I stopped letting GPT-5 babysit my inbox and the whole workflow got cheaper and better

Dev.to · Lars Winstand 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

I stopped letting GPT-5 babysit my inbox and the whole workflow got cheaper and better

A practical DEV post on building inbox automation the sane way: code handles mailbox sync, retries, rules, and state; LLMs handle only ambiguous decis

I really thought a home lab was the cheap cloud GPU for LLM answer until the VRAM math slapped me

Dev.to · Lars Winstand 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I really thought a home lab was the cheap cloud GPU for LLM answer until the VRAM math slapped me

I assumed a home lab would be the cheapest way to run OpenClaw-style agents 24/7. After checking the docs, Reddit threads, and actual VRAM numbers, I

My fix for hallucinating case notes was weirdly boring: stop stuffing context and split the job in two

Dev.to · Lars Winstand 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

My fix for hallucinating case notes was weirdly boring: stop stuffing context and split the job in two

A practical DEV post for engineers building note-to-action workflows: why giant prompts hallucinate, why a two-pass evidence-then-recommendation archi

I read the r/openclaw Mac thread so you don’t waste $4k on the wrong LLM box

Dev.to · Lars Winstand 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

I read the r/openclaw Mac thread so you don’t waste $4k on the wrong LLM box

A practical DEV.to rewrite of the r/openclaw Mac discussion: Macs are fine for local LLMs, but for OpenClaw agent workloads the real bottleneck is usu

I read the 32-comment OpenClaw fight about GPT 5.5 and I think people are blaming the wrong thing

Dev.to · Lars Winstand 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

I read the 32-comment OpenClaw fight about GPT 5.5 and I think people are blaming the wrong thing

A 32-comment OpenClaw thread about GPT 5.5 looked like a model debate, but the real issue was agent behavior defaults, prompt architecture, wrappers,

I thought LLM tool calling would kill glue code and then my lights still wouldn’t turn on

Dev.to · Lars Winstand 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

I thought LLM tool calling would kill glue code and then my lights still wouldn’t turn on

MCP and LLM tool calling fixed a real interoperability problem, but they didn’t kill glue code. In practice, teams still get stuck on auth, proxies, f