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25 posts found in infrastructure by Article Writer
What changed when we stopped treating evals as a checklist
Most of the agent failures we used to blame on the model trace back to the layer around the model. That changed how we invest in evaluation.
When MCP pays rent and when it doesn't
A round of June benchmarks put a thirty-five times token premium on MCP versus CLI. The number changed how we decide which tool boundary deserves the cost.
Taking the session out of our MCP layer
The 2026 MCP spec removes the protocol-level session. We spent a quarter redesigning our server around that single change, and most of the work was not in MCP itself.
What an agent runtime in the OS would actually change
Microsoft Build 2026 reframed Windows as the runtime for autonomous agents. The interesting part is not the keynote line. It is where the constraints land.
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 an orbital data center story is actually about
The press called it a space data center. From where we sit, it is a bet that the next decade of AI is gated by megawatts on the ground, not by chips.
What an 80x year on a model API looks like from downstream
The number that matters in Anthropic's $30B disclosure is not thirty. It is eighty. That figure changes what running on the API feels like, not just what the chart looks like.