Eric M. Broda

I just published Tokenmaxxing is useless, counterproductive… and, yes, stupid medium.com/p/tokenmaxxing…

The imminent token apocolypse (or when enterprises consume agents without subsides) medium.com/p/the-imminent…

Cloudflare explains why Mythos is so important (it is not necessarily what you think) medium.com/p/cloudflare-e…

Token usage is skyrocketing, and so are costs medium.com/p/token-usage-…

Agent demand is accelerating, Token intensity is growing… something has to give… medium.com/p/agent-demand…

Your Agents are about to get much more expensive medium.com/p/your-agents-…

Token Economics are Brutal (if you are a provider, that is) medium.com/p/token-econom…

Should we be doing real-time authorization for agents, with short-lived creds? Lengthy piece here makes the case ... nordicapis.com/why-real-time-…

Every time I see a team celebrating their new "shared module," I remember this lesson. Reuse is a dangerous form of coupling. They found the same logic in two places and did what good engineers do: put it in one place and called it a win. Clean, responsible, textbook. Six months later, someone needs to change it. Suddenly, a small update for one team's requirements breaks three services, blocks two releases, and triggers an emergency meeting between people who've never talked to each other before. This is the cost nobody preaches about. DRY is one of those principles that feels unquestionably right until you apply it across team boundaries. The moment you share a module between domains, you're not just sharing code. You're creating a dependency that nobody owns and everyone resents. Before you reuse, ask: Will this change often? Does it belong to one domain? Are the consumers truly aligned in purpose? Will one team’s change surprise another team? If the answer to any of these is "I'm not sure," stop. Duplicate it. I know how that sounds. It feels lazy. It feels like the thing a junior developer does before they know better. But here's what nobody wants to say out loud: two independent implementations you control are almost always cheaper than one shared one serving masters with different goals. Duplication is a local problem. Coupling is an organizational problem. One of them you can fix in an afternoon. The other requires a meeting with five teams and someone's manager. Reuse isn't free. Treat it like the trade-off it is.

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Eric Broda is a veteran of the software industry, and the co-author of the new O’Reilly book, Agentic Mesh: The GenAI-Powered Autonomous Agent Ecosystem. He joins @seanfalconer to discuss Agentic Mesh, distributed systems, and more. @ericmbroda softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/16/age…

If you are still thinking about how to build an agent, then you are missing the point. medium.com/p/if-you-are-s…

The Task Boundary is the Enforcement Point for Agent Security and Governance medium.com/p/the-task-bou…

Agents (Claude Code, Codex) Speak Different Languages. To Collaborate, They Need a Common One. medium.com/p/agents-claud…

Enterprise Agent Processes are Built from a Small Set of Simple Building Blocks. medium.com/p/enterprise-a…

Agentic Process Automation: An Architecture to Manage and Govern the Enterprise Agent Ecosystem medium.com/p/agentic-proc…

Agentic Process Automation is the Form Factor for the Enterprise Agent Ecosystem medium.com/p/agentic-proc…

Agentic Process Automation: A Process Architecture for the Agent Era medium.com/p/agentic-proc…

In the Agent Economy, the Fast Don’t Just Win — They Pull Away Exponentially. medium.com/p/in-the-agent…