April 14, 2026
Your multi-agent pipeline needs a circuit breaker
Two of our agents got into an hour-long fight at 3am. Here's the three-layer orchestration fix — dedup, circuit breaker, scope rules — that makes sure it never happens again.
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Thoughts on custom software development, AI-assisted engineering, and IT strategy from the ScrappyDog team.
April 14, 2026
Optimizing the cost of Claude agents
How task-based model selection in our multi-agent pipeline cut our API bill without dropping quality. The lesson wasn't "use a cheaper model" — it was "different tasks have different reasoning demands."