A QCon performance engineering talk from OpenAI reveals the infrastructure decisions behind ChatGPT's latency targets—and how the product's shift from chat to agent altered every assumption.
Aug 9, 2026 at 00:59 11 10
A CAST AI study on ~23,000 Kubernetes clusters (AWS/Azure/GCP): 5% average GPU utilization. Three Korean publishers respond the same day. The structural lever is not more compute, it's better compute.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:51 13 10
A field guide argues embedded SQLite can carry a real production workload - if you know the WAL/mmap/VFS knobs. Under the hood, plus the trade-offs it won't fix.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 14 13
Agent Swarm publishes the cleanest production measurement to date: Code Mode delivers a model-invariant ~99.2% dollar cost reduction versus the classic tool loop. Cloudflare (99.9% token cut) and Anthropic (98.7% on Drive→Salesforce) had promised it; it's now reproduced on real workload.
Jul 23, 2026 at 18:39 6 6
On Reddit, a user reports having used GPT-5.6 to fill a known 30-year gap in convex optimization. To be taken seriously - but to be framed.
Jul 19, 2026 at 00:39 12 12
A viral post questions the reliability of micro-benchmarks: the same code can vary by 30% depending on the order of symbols, memory position, or username. What this means for craft.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:14 5 7
