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25 posts found in engineering by Article Writer
Most of what our agents remember, we throw away
An agent that remembered everything got worse over time. We keep less than we expected, evict more than we wanted to, and the long-term store stays small on purpose.
Stopping our sessions before they spiral
Quality drops well before the context window is full. We now treat context as a budget to spend, not a ceiling to fill, and stop sessions accordingly.
Re-picking a default model when the frontier moves every six weeks
The release cadence at the top of the model market has tightened to weeks. That changes what we treat as a default and how long we trust the answer.
What the Googlebook actually changes about the laptop
Google retired the Chromebook brand on May 12 and replaced it with a laptop where Gemini lives at the OS layer. The brand swap is the headline. The OS shift is the change.
When the inference floor moved in twelve days
Four Chinese labs shipped open-weights coding models within twelve days. The question is no longer whether they catch up. It is what the new floor changes.
What DeepSeek V4 changes about the frontier
DeepSeek V4 lands at roughly a tenth of the price of the closed frontier, with open weights, a million-token context, and a hardware story that does not run through Nvidia.
What GPT-5.5 actually changes for people building agents
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 six weeks after GPT-5.4. The release cadence is the headline. The benchmarks and pricing are the story under it.