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Every vendor pitch eventually arrives at the same promise. The platform is future proof. The architecture is built to last. The investment you make today will still be paying off…
There is an old maritime story about wreckers who placed false lights along dangerous coastlines. Sailors believed they were following a safe navigational signal, steered towards it, and ended up…
There is a sound most of us have learned to tune out, the drone of a leaf blower a few gardens over. It never surprises you and it never says…
Why the gap between who you really are and who you need to be at work may be one of the clearest signs that it is time to leave. I…
Put ten surgeons in a theatre. Each has twenty years behind them, thousands of procedures, and a working memory of every time an apparently simple decision went wrong at hour…
My inference bill last month was large enough to require an explanation, and the cause looked obvious: I had run one expensive model for everything. So the fix looked obvious…
My inference bill last month was large enough to require an explanation, and my first instinct was the same one most people reach for: I had run one expensive model…
DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM show why model choice and cloud choice can no longer be the same decision 1. Bedrock is a very AWS answer to generative AI Amazon Bedrock…
How I wired opencode up to Together AI’s model catalog and built three switchable cost profiles so I get top tier reasoning where it matters and cheap tokens everywhere else.…
Alignment is expensive. Misalignment costs more. For a long time I thought that being on the same page was overrated. I learned how wrong that was at home some years…
