Slava Rudenko

I build products and then I run them. These are notes from the work — an autonomous agent I ran for two months, the economics of routing model calls, what happens when an internal API gets a price tag, and what a crawl is actually worth.

Writing

• What I learned running an autonomous job-search agent for two months

  The web has no lane for a legitimate agent. Turnstile, hCaptcha, Akamai, and reCAPTCHA all slammed the door on the same honest traffic.

• Cutting per-query cost from $7 to $0.20

  Tiered model routing, and why per-request unit economics is a product decision, not an infra detail.

• The day my internal API got a price tag

  120 internal tools adopted it for free. Then it went commercial. Everything about the same endpoint changed.

• What's a crawl actually worth? Notes from both sides Premium

  SEO lead who lived on free crawls, now running an agent that consumes the web. Why per-crawl flat pricing misprices the read.