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        <title><![CDATA[The $20 Detox (Part 1): The Infinite Token Hangover]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The (Seemingly) Unlimited tokens were exhilarating, revolutionary, ego-massaging, world changing and … unsustainable]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Synthetic Velocity Post-Mortems (Part 2): The Spec Over-Correction]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I thought exhaustive specifications and strict rules would tame model non-determinism. Instead, I moved the bloat from code into prompts, and discovered that English sentences are not architectural boundaries.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Synthetic Velocity Post-Mortems (Part 3): The Compiler Panopticon]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Stop writing markdown rulebooks to plead with a probabilistic machine. Wrap the model inside a deterministic compiler panopticon.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Synthetic Velocity Post-Mortems (Part 4): The Empirical Eval Shock]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An uncalibrated AI evaluation is just a codified bias. Ground truth does not care about your prompt engineering.]]></description>
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