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The 'Google just dropped a 1-hour course on agentic engineering from scratch' post is all over your feed. We went looking for the actual video — and found a viral template, not a course. Here's the real Google curriculum, plus a self-paced path through the five things it teaches.
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When software holds the card, the chargeback stops being your escape hatch and the log becomes it. Google's Agent Payments Protocol already defines the exact three records to keep — here's the schema, the fields it forgets, and why you retain them for years, not days.
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Cloudflare's June 2026 update swaps the CAPTCHA for a signature check — but only for agents that prove who they are. Here is the Ed25519 keypair, the JWKS directory, and the three headers that get your agent into the verified lane.
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Tokens-per-second and price-per-token are vanity metrics. The number you actually pay is dollars per SUCCESSFUL task, including retries and failed attempts. Here's a copy-paste harness that logs it, in about 60 lines.
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When a browser client sends the conversation back to your agent every turn, it can smuggle in a system prompt, a rogue file URL, or a dangling tool call. Pydantic AI v2.5 ships the sanitizer — and shipped one subtle bug worth understanding.
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The first agentic ransomware didn't need a zero-day — it walked in through a year-old unpatched RCE in a tool founders self-host every day. Here's the boring hygiene that would have stopped it.
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Google quietly shipped a media tier cheap enough to call per request: images at $0.034 per thousand and video at ten cents a second. Here's the model IDs, the pricing math, and copy-paste code to wire both into a product.
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The number-one webhook bug is parsing the JSON before you verify it, which silently rewrites the exact bytes you were supposed to check.
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Stripe's Agentic Commerce Suite gives a solo builder two ways to get paid by software, not people. SPTs are for an agent buying from your store; MPP is for an agent paying your API. Here's which to pick, with the exact code.
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Four algorithms, one question — do you want to smooth traffic, count it fairly, or forgive a burst? Pick the one whose flaw you can live with.
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The Harness ships a capability that collapses a whole loop of tool calls into a single sandboxed Python script the model writes once. Here's the two-line change, what it actually does, and when it pays off.
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When an agent takes a consequential action, 'trust me' isn't an answer. Here's a copy-paste pattern for a decision record that captures inputs, the rules that fired, the model's rationale, and any human override — so you can replay any decision months later and prove exactly why.
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Keep the Claude Code workflow you already know; swap the engine underneath for an open-weight model on a flat monthly plan. The whole trick is two environment variables and one endpoint — here's the copy-paste path, plus the three mistakes that send people to a 404.
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