<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>ZeroNonsense.dev · Writing</title><description>Essays on Agentic AI from someone building the systems.</description><link>https://zerononsense.dev/</link><item><title>An AI agent shipped a working tool while I slept. Here&apos;s what I did and didn&apos;t let it do</title><link>https://zerononsense.dev/writing/agent-shipped-while-i-slept/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://zerononsense.dev/writing/agent-shipped-while-i-slept/</guid><description>One person plus agents is a real operating model in 2026. The design question is not what the agent can do, but which verbs you refuse to delegate: push, merge, declare done.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your AI context should not live in your AI vendor</title><link>https://zerononsense.dev/writing/your-ai-context-should-not-live-in-your-ai-vendor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://zerononsense.dev/writing/your-ai-context-should-not-live-in-your-ai-vendor/</guid><description>A portability stance, not a privacy one: keep your project&apos;s history, decisions, and state in three plain files you own, and any AI tool can pick up exactly where the last one left off.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>98% of my AI token spend was overhead. Here are the 5 changes that cut it</title><link>https://zerononsense.dev/writing/98-percent-token-spend-overhead-five-fixes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://zerononsense.dev/writing/98-percent-token-spend-overhead-five-fixes/</guid><description>A practical follow-up: compacting, context trimming, handover files, and model routing to reduce token overhead in long agentic sessions.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I thought 80% of my token usage was re-sent context</title><link>https://zerononsense.dev/writing/the-actual-cost-of-mcp-tool-decoupling/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://zerononsense.dev/writing/the-actual-cost-of-mcp-tool-decoupling/</guid><description>In my agentic AI sessions, 85-98% of token spend was overhead. Here are the changes that actually reduced it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>