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Memory architectures that outperformed KV-cache in production
Field notes from teams using external memory, summarization, and retrieval to control long-running agents.
RAG in 2026: four patterns production teams still use
Retrieval-augmented generation survived the hype cycle because the architecture became more disciplined.
LangChain evals versus Braintrust and Langfuse
How the current eval tooling landscape compares for teams trying to ship reliable AI workflows.
The benchmark we do not have: agents that actually finish
Most evaluations measure intermediate skill. Operators need finish-rate, recovery, escalation, and cost-to-complete.
What a $14B AI lab round signals about the second tier
The funding story is really a market-structure story: distribution, enterprise trust, and lower-cost specialization.
Sub-quadratic attention is back, and the math is getting useful
A new wave of sequence modeling research is pushing efficient attention back into production conversations.
Inside Opus 5: stretching context to two million tokens
A practical look at long-context model behavior, retrieval boundaries, and where bigger context windows actually help.
The quiet shift from chatbots to systems that act on your behalf
Agentic models are quietly rewriting the assumptions baked into a decade of product design. We talked to eleven teams shipping them, and the takeaway is less…
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