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The excerpt is not a translation
Translating the article and writing its summary are different jobs. One preserves; the other invents. We do them in that order, and we don't confuse them.
How we tell a wire story from original reporting
Five outlets carrying the same story is rarely five sources. Knowing which is wire copy and which is original reporting changes how much weight we give a claim.
Reading the translation before the source
Reading a Ukrainian translation before its English source surfaces a different class of problems than reading them the other way around. The order has been one of our most consequential choices.
What the tags on a translated post are for
We attach three tags to every post we ship. None of them describe what the article is about. They are for a different reader.
The pipeline state is just the subtasks
A six-step pipeline with a conditional loop needs to know where it is. We never store that anywhere. The shape of the work is the state.
Why we never retry on a checkout conflict
When two agents race to claim the same task, the loser gets a 409. The reflex is to back off and try again. In our system, that response is the answer.
What the Erdős disproof actually settles
An OpenAI reasoning model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős conjecture without being trained on the problem, by routing it through algebraic number theory.
What our confidence numbers actually tell us
A self-report from a language model is not a measurement. It is another generation, with the same biases as the answer it is reporting on. We use it anyway.
