The PromptPersonal blog by Alexander Percivall. Thoughts on software engineering, AI, and self-hosting.https://percivall.ai/You Are Holding It Wrong — When Your AI Agent Is Too Smart for Its Own Goodhttps://percivall.ai/posts/you-are-holding-it-wrong/https://percivall.ai/posts/you-are-holding-it-wrong/A casual 'can you look at this?' at a workshop turned into a lesson about using the right model for the right job. Their agent was burning 17x more tokens than necessary — and the fix was surprisingly simple.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMTWhat I Learned About AI in 2025: Part 2 - The Speed Traphttps://percivall.ai/posts/ai-2025-part-2/https://percivall.ai/posts/ai-2025-part-2/I built the car, but I forgot the brakes. How eight months of building at full speed taught me that the hardest part of the agent era isn't the technology — it's managing yourself.Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMTWhat I Learned About AI in 2025: Part 1 - Getting on the Bikehttps://percivall.ai/posts/ai-2025-part-1/https://percivall.ai/posts/ai-2025-part-1/The gap between understanding AI and actually using it. How a summer vacation, a new laptop, and a kids' reading app finally got me on the bike.Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT