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4 posts — newest first.
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A Three-Agent Vote Can Add 9.6 Points at Most: The Break-Even Math of Multi-Agent Systems
Closed-form models for voting, verifiers, pipelines and fan-out, checked against Monte Carlo and the research. When a second agent pays for itself.
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Your Semantic Cache Is Answering the Wrong Question
Quora and PAWS sweeps: at 0.90 cosine with 5% repeat traffic, 78% of cache hits served the wrong answer, and thresholds do not transfer between models.
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What a Token Actually Is, and Why a UUID Costs 24 of Them
I built a BPE tokenizer from scratch, then measured what JSON, UUIDs, code and other languages really cost. The len/4 estimate was off by up to 70%.
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Agent browsing got 3–7× cheaper and 1.8× slower. Both numbers change your design.
Cloudflare's Kitesurf is a browser built for agents, not people. The measured trade-off, what it can't do, and why cheap browsing rewrites your threat model.