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Do You Cap Your Engineers' Token Budget, or Not?

A flat monthly cap feels like control. It sails over the people who barely use the tools and lands entirely on the ones inventing how everyone works next year. The real choice was never cap or no cap.

Aug 18, '26

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RAG Was Never Semantic Search

RAG and semantic search fused into one word over the last three years. Pulling them apart surfaces the real question: where in your pipeline does anything actually think?

Aug 18, '26

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Who Decides Which Version Is True

Most of what gets sold as a knowledge graph is a data graph with a better name. The hard part was never the extraction. It was deciding what counts as knowledge, and keeping that decision current.

Aug 5, '26