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Sebastian Maniak on running AI agents in production — agentgateway, kagent, MCP, A2A, and the Kubernetes plumbing that keeps them fast, observable, and safe.
GPT-5.5 vs Claude vs Grok: Which Model Saves Money? (I Made Them Fly a Drone)
Same job, three brains. I gave an AI agent a real Ryze RoboMaster TT drone and one fixed mission — take off, flip, photograph the room, spin 360°, land and report — then flew it identically on three models: gpt-5.5, …
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View the full archive →First Steps: agentgateway, F5 AI Guardrails, and the Enterprise UI
The previous post covered the new hard spend limits in Enterprise agentgateway v2026.6.3: model cost catalogs, dollar or token budgets, and a real 429 when a …
Hard Spend Limits for LLM Traffic: AI Budgets in Enterprise AgentGateway v2026.6.3
Enterprise AgentGateway v2026.6.3 shipped on July 1st with a changelog line that FinOps-minded platform teams have been waiting for: Enterprise Budgets and …
Three Ways to Combine agentgateway with F5 AI Guardrails (and Where F5 Distributed Cloud Fits)
F5’s acquisition of CalypsoAI gave enterprises something a lot of security teams have been asking for: a dedicated AI runtime security layer — F5 AI …
Suspend & Resume Stateful Agents: kagent on Agent Substrate with kind
Suspend & Resume Stateful Agents: kagent on Agent Substrate with kind By Sebastian Maniak Agent sessions are bursty. A user asks a question, the agent …
agentgateway Standalone: A Cost & Tokenomics Dashboard in One Command
Introduction You’re routing LLM traffic through a gateway. But do you actually know what it costs? Not the rough monthly invoice from your provider — the …
Do AgentGateway Tool Modes and Headroom Stack? Measuring Two Token-Saving Layers Together
In a previous post I showed that Enterprise agentgateway can cut your LLM bill by changing how GitHub’s MCP tools are presented to the model — its …