Craig Mason
Craig Mason writes followmy.ai's coverage of AI tools, agents, and the economics of building with them — what works, what leaks money, and what to skip. The focus is the builder's view: how each story changes the stack you actually run.
20 articles
- Jun 24, 2026
AI Tool Pricing: Where the Money Leaks and How to Plug Them
A no-nonsense guide to AI tool pricing models and the hidden costs that inflate budgets.
- Jun 19, 2026
Why AI Agents Fail in Production: The Silent Killers and How to Fix Them
Practical guide to the unglamorous reasons AI agents fail in production and how to harden them against real-world conditions.
- Jun 18, 2026
When to Build a Multi-Agent System (and When to Avoid It)
Practical criteria for choosing between single and multi-agent architectures, with clear dos and don'ts.
- Jun 16, 2026
The AI Agent Production Reliability Checklist: Failure Modes and How to Catch Them
A field checklist for shipping reliable AI agents: the five failure modes that break production, and the observability that catches them before users do.
- Jun 16, 2026
Claude Agent SDK vs LangGraph: Which Agent Stack to Pick (and When You Need MCP)
A use-case-by-use-case verdict on Claude Agent SDK versus LangGraph, plus the honest answer on when MCP and multi-agent actually earn their keep.
- Jun 16, 2026
How Much Does It Cost to Run an AI Agent? A Per-Run Breakdown
The honest answer to AI agent costs: roughly $200 to $8,000 a month, but the real number hides in cost per run, not the model price.
- Jun 16, 2026
AI Coding Assistants Are Making Developers Worse at Reading Code
The rise of AI coding assistants is eroding developers' ability to read and understand existing codebases, creating a silent crisis in software maintenance.
- Jun 16, 2026
AI Coding Tools Are Breaking Your Debugging Workflow
AI coding tools are creating a debugging skills gap by providing fixes without explanations, leaving developers dependent but uninformed.
- Jun 14, 2026
AI Tool Stacks: The Real Monthly Cost and Where It Leaks
AI tool stacks cost way more than advertised, often leaking thousands monthly through inefficient usage and redundant tools: here's how to fix it.
- Jun 13, 2026
Kickbacks.ai and the Trust Problem: When the Ad Metric Can't Be Verified
Kickbacks.ai pays developers for ad impressions in their AI spinner. The hard question nobody's asking during the hype: how does it know an impression was real?
- Jun 12, 2026
How AI Is Used to Research Stock Market Opportunities
A practical look at how investors use AI to research stocks: screening, document synthesis, and signal generation, plus where human judgment still decides.
- Jun 12, 2026
The SpaceX IPO and the AI Opportunity: What the Listing Actually Signals
How the SpaceX IPO connects to AI: the satellite-data, compute, and infrastructure opportunities a public space company opens up for investors and builders.
- Jun 12, 2026
Kickbacks.ai Puts Ads in Your AI Spinner: The Hype, the Product, and How to Try It
What Kickbacks.ai does, why developers are arguing about it, and a step-by-step guide to installing the VS Code extension and earning from it.
- Jun 12, 2026
Boardroom (facetheboard.ai): An AI Panel That Won't Flatter Your Startup Idea
A look at facetheboard.ai's Boardroom, a 15-minute AI panel that interrogates your startup idea and returns a scored pass or fail.
- Jun 12, 2026
The Hidden Costs of Over-Reliance on LLMs in SaaS Workflows
Over-reliance on LLMs in SaaS tools creates performance bottlenecks that undermine user experience.
- Jun 11, 2026
The Hidden Costs of AI Coding Tools in 2026
Exploring the hidden productivity costs and quality impacts of AI coding tools in 2026.
- Jun 10, 2026
The Hidden Costs of AI Coding Tools: When Efficiency Comes at a Price
AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Tabnine promise to revolutionize software development. They claim to boost productivity
- Jun 09, 2026
AI Coding Tools Are Getting Good Enough to Replace Junior Developers
The latest generation of AI coding assistants has crossed a threshold. They're no longer just autocomplete on steroids. Tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude C
- Jun 08, 2026
AI Agents Keep Failing in Production — Fix the Workflow, Not the Model
AI agents that dazzle in demos break in production. The cause is almost never the model — it's the workflow and the system around it.
- Jun 07, 2026
AI Coding Tools in 2026: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
### The Good: Unparalleled Productivity Boost Let's start with the good news—AI coding tools in 2026 have fundamentally transformed how developers work. To