Crosscurrent Code

Essays on technology, culture, and change from the Middle East.

Independent writing by Jad Madi on AI, open source, systems, digital sovereignty, and the human consequences of technical change.

Lead Story

Why Your Coding Agents Burn Tokens in the Dark

We handed our terminals over to autonomous coding agents, only to discover our token bills were compounding in silence. Here is how I built Thermal to track 14 agent harnesses with local SQLite mmap, sub-10ms delta caching, and a Bubble Tea TUI.