AI moves faster than it changes. Short notes on what landed this week, what it actually means, and a link to the source so you can disagree with me.
Jul 19, 2026
At the new per-token rate, stuffing 200k tokens of context costs less than the retrieval infrastructure it replaces for a lot of low-volume internal tools. It does not change the calculus at scale, which is where most of the argument actually lives.
Jul 04, 2026
The interesting engineering detail is the fallback: it routes to a hosted model when the local one is not confident, and the confidence signal is a separate small classifier rather than the model's own logprobs.
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