ExplainerAI in production
Measuring prompt-cache reuse in long agent sessions
Learn why a repeated prefix can be reused, how to measure cached input correctly, and when a lower hit rate is the better result.
Articles
Guides, news and explanations about AI and reliable systems.
ExplainerAI in production
Running Codex CLI as a supervised worker process
A host that launches codex exec must own the process, thread lease, JSONL trace, cancellation and artifact checks. Resume is a lifecycle decision, not a shell shortcut.
ExplainerPlatform engineering
What Basalt changes in a Blackwell local inference stack
Basalt narrows local inference to Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on Blackwell. Its memory and concurrency controls matter more than copying the largest throughput number.
ExplainerAI in production
Claude API credits explained: subscription access, billing and task costs
How Anthropic’s October API-credit update fits subscription access, shared Console balances and the cost of completed agent work.
ExplainerPlatform engineering
How Infermeld runs one model across AMD and NVIDIA GPUs
Infermeld makes a mixed-GPU llama.cpp launch inspectable. Its recorded failures show why separate device allocations and completed workload checks matter more than adding VRAM capacities.
ExplainerAI in production
What Kimi K3’s million-token context offers SRE teams
Kimi K3 can keep a larger incident record in view. Its practical value depends on evidence handling, agent integration and the cost of useful investigation.
ExplainerAI in production
Why ninfer-ext’s smaller EXL3 model can run more slowly
ninfer-ext trades a smaller EXL3 file for more decoding work in its published tests. The saved memory matters when it lets a request fit that would otherwise fail.
ExplainerAI in production
Pi.dev guide: the coding agent you can make your own
Meet Pi, the open-source terminal agent built for people who want to shape their tools. Learn its history, uses, setup, model choices, costs and customization.
ExplainerAI in production
Jev returns typed answers for routing and scoring tasks
Jev answers supplied questions with choices, scores and probabilities. A token-rotation ticket shows how those structured outputs can fit a support router.
ExplainerObservability
Connect the signals with OpenTelemetry
Use instrumentation and context propagation to connect the evidence in an investigation.
ExplainerPlatform engineering
The SRE and platform handoff
Clarify ownership across shared platforms, service reliability, and incident response.
ExplainerAI in production
The operational cost of AI tokens
Account for context limits, retries, latency, and the work behind a useful result.