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GLM-5.1 vs GLM-5.2: Same Size, Same Price, Different Job
Z.ai kept the architecture and the price list identical and changed what the model is for. The context jump, the long-horizon gains, and the token cost nobody mentions.
· 9 min read
GLM-5.2 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro: Endurance or Raw Problem Solving
Both are MIT-licensed open models, so the licence is a wash. The split is agentic endurance against algorithmic power, at a three-to-five times price gap.
· 9 min read
GLM-5.2: The Open Model Built for Long-Horizon Coding
Z.ai shipped a 744B MoE with 40B active, MIT-licensed weights and the first open-weight Terminal-Bench 2.1 score above 80. A technical read on what that means.
· 10 min read
How LLMs Actually Work: Next-Token Prediction, End to End
A large language model does one thing repeatedly. Here is what happens between your prompt and the first token out, and what that mechanism explains about behaviour.
· 9 min readHow to Choose a Coding Model Without Trusting Anyone’s Chart
Six properties decide whether a model is good at your codebase — and only one of them shows up on a leaderboard. A practical framework for picking.
· 9 min read
Human in the Loop: Designing Approval That Actually Works
Most approval gates fail not from too little oversight but from too much. Here is how to design agent checkpoints people actually read before clicking yes.
· 9 min read
Input vs Output Token Pricing: Which One Actually Bills You
Output tokens cost several times more per token, yet input usually dominates the bill. Here is how to compute your own blended rate and act on it.
· 7 min read
Is Unlimited AI Actually Unlimited?
No inference provider can sell genuinely uncapped compute. Here is what the word hides, why the limits exist, and exactly what to demand in writing before you buy.
· 9 min read
Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro: Doing the 17x Price Arithmetic
K3 costs about seventeen times more per output token than DeepSeek V4 Pro. Here is the break-even calculation that decides whether that is worth paying.
· 10 min read
Kimi K3 vs GLM-5.2: Capability Against Deployability
One is the most capable open-weight model and hard to serve. The other is MIT-licensed, leaner and built for long agent loops. How to choose between them.
· 9 min readKimi K3: What a 2.8T Open-Weight Model Actually Buys You
Moonshot shipped the largest open-weight model yet: 2.8T parameters, 1M context, and a licence that is not MIT. A technical read on where K3 earns its price.
· 10 min read
LLM API Error Codes: A Practical Reference
What each status code from an LLM API actually means, which are safe to retry, and how to handle the ones that look transient but are not. With real header names.
· 9 min readReady to try it?
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