Sam Sabey

Founder @otageLabs. Building production AI systems — RAG, agentic automation, dev orchestration. 30 years shipping software. Melbourne.

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A sponsor needed a redirect URL on a coffee cup. John Allsopp pointed Claude Code at it. Fifteen minutes: complete redirect system, QR codes, analytics, deployed to Cloudflare. That was the warm up. 1/2

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Eighteen minute talks. Productivity, security, token burn, inference cost, open models, harness engineering. All run like clockwork over two days at AI Engineer Melbourne. Still processing. 1/2

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Eighteen minute talks. Productivity, security, token burn, inference cost, open models, harness engineering. All run like clockwork over two days at AI Engineer Melbourne. Still processing. 1/2

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Another service sent me a meeting transcript. To read it I had to log in to their website. The pocket recorder drops its summaries straight into the agent stack as open markdown. That feels like 2025. 1/2

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Airlines price for fuel. Trucking passes it through. SaaS products ran 80 to 90% gross margins because the software was cheap to operate. What happens when inference eats another 40%?

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Seeing the label on a 10mm socket is not the same as knowing when to use it. MCP gave AI agents a garage full of labelled drawers. The knack of knowing which drawer to open first? That comes from somewhere else entirely. 1/2

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Knowing where the dragons are was always bundled with the person doing the work. Two production databases got wiped in a fortnight because nobody in the room carried the map. 1/2

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Some of my sharpest technical insights happen on singletrack with my heart rate at 125. Not at a desk staring at a screen. The AI bottleneck is biochemistry.

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Factories took a hundred years to reorganise around electricity. AI is compressing the same transformation into months. Most businesses are still bolting a bigger motor onto the old lineshaft. 1/2

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Opus 4.7 ignored every branch constraint I wrote. The fix for the first alignment problem in production wasn't interpretability. It was typing /model claude-opus-4-6 into a terminal. 1/2

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I built agentic workflows on Claude's connectors. They broke. The only fix: disconnect and reconnect, like rebooting a Windows machine. This morning the management plane was down too. My agents, my reputation, someone else's outage. 1/2