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The question isn’t which model wins DeepSeek pushed the official deepseek-v4-flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026, and immediately claimed its cheap tier now beats DeepSeek’s own more…
Read more →If you run Claude Code in Ghostty, you’ve probably heard it: a small chime every time Claude finishes a task or stops to ask you something. Useful the first day,…
Read more →Presented at AWS Summit Johannesburg Leon Rajindrapersadh, CTO of Capitec, and Terrence Naidoo, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, are presenting this architecture at AWS Summit Johannesburg on 19 August 2026…
1. The scar tissue Every organisation of a certain age carries an Active Directory scar. It usually formed the same way. A single forest was stood up in the early…
1. The follow up question In my previous post I explained why context is not free, and why a smaller AI model carrying a huge context can sometimes cost more…
1. What a token actually is Before any of this makes sense, it helps to be precise about what a token is, since the whole article rests on it. A…
Something interesting happens inside large organisations when a new technology appears and nobody is quite sure how dangerous it is: people start sacrificing things. A feature gets disabled, a setting…
1. A strange thing is happening in AI There is something slightly strange happening in artificial intelligence. Companies are spending enormous amounts of money buying GPUs, building data centres, collecting…
I was in the Kruger Park recently, where everyone talks about the Big Five: lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo. They are the five animals everyone wants to see, and…
1. Two million users A product review lands on your desk. It shows 2 million users, and the team presenting is proud. Rightly so. Two million is a large number…
