<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Agent Month — Writing</title><description>Deep technical writing on LLM cost optimization, agent infrastructure, evals, and MCP.</description><link>https://agentmonth.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Standardizing AI coding tools without killing autonomy</title><link>https://agentmonth.com/blog/standardize-ai-coding-without-killing-autonomy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentmonth.com/blog/standardize-ai-coding-without-killing-autonomy/</guid><description>How DevEx and platform leaders turn a Claude Code / Cursor / Copilot free-for-all into a golden path — shared slash commands, agent definitions, MCP access, and review hooks — without mandating a single way to work.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>devex</category><category>platform</category><category>golden-path</category></item><item><title>The “add AI” mandate: a CTO’s first 90 days</title><link>https://agentmonth.com/blog/cto-add-ai-mandate/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentmonth.com/blog/cto-add-ai-mandate/</guid><description>The board wants AI in the product and you have to commit before the bets are proven. A sequencing playbook for CTOs — what to ship first, how to handle build-vs-buy, and how to keep costs forecastable.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>cto</category><category>strategy</category><category>sequencing</category></item><item><title>Securing AI-generated code: a checklist for security leaders</title><link>https://agentmonth.com/blog/securing-ai-generated-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentmonth.com/blog/securing-ai-generated-code/</guid><description>AI is writing code faster than anyone can review it. A practical checklist for CISOs and AppSec leaders to control AI-generated code, prompt data leakage, and new injection surfaces — without slowing the team down.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>security</category><category>ai-code</category><category>checklist</category></item><item><title>You shipped AI features with no evals. Here’s how to fix that.</title><link>https://agentmonth.com/blog/you-shipped-ai-with-no-evals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentmonth.com/blog/you-shipped-ai-with-no-evals/</guid><description>Most teams shipped production AI with zero evaluation. This is how to add evals incrementally — without stopping the roadmap — so prompt and model changes stop being blind deploys.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>evals</category><category>quality</category><category>ci-cd</category></item><item><title>Is your codebase agent-ready? A scoring rubric</title><link>https://agentmonth.com/blog/is-your-codebase-agent-ready/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentmonth.com/blog/is-your-codebase-agent-ready/</guid><description>Agents thrive in some codebases and thrash in others. Here is the rubric we use to score how ready a codebase is for agentic development — and what to fix first.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agentic-dev</category><category>codebase</category><category>rubric</category></item><item><title>How to cut LLM costs 30–60% without losing quality</title><link>https://agentmonth.com/blog/cut-llm-costs-without-losing-quality/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentmonth.com/blog/cut-llm-costs-without-losing-quality/</guid><description>A practical, vendor-agnostic playbook for finding and removing 30–60% of your production LLM spend — model routing, caching, batching, and the observability to keep it gone.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>llm-costs</category><category>observability</category><category>playbook</category></item></channel></rss>