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StrategyJuly 20, 20265 min read

NeMo Automodel + Diffusers: When Vision Fine-Tuning Is a Trap

NVIDIA NeMo Automodel makes Diffusers fine-tuning easy. For agent teams processing video and images, that's exactly the problem. Here's when to skip it.

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StrategyJuly 15, 20266 min read

Useful Work Per Dollar Is the Wrong First Question for Agents

OpenAI's 'useful work per dollar' skips the harder question: does your problem need an agent loop at all? Here's how we measure the real tradeoff.

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StrategyJuly 10, 20265 min read

GPT-5.6 in Copilot: Why Cost-Per-Token Is the Wrong Metric

GPT-5.6 in M365 Copilot changes agent economics. Why cost-per-successful-action beats cost-per-token — and what to fix in your retry logic first.

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StrategyJuly 8, 20266 min read

Eve Chat SDK Adapters: Easy Deploy, Hard Decisions

Eve's Chat SDK makes multi-surface agent deploys plug-and-play. Here's what teams miss: per-platform rate limits, state divergence, and when a webhook wins.

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StrategyJune 26, 20265 min read

HF Jobs Made vLLM Easy. That's Not the Decision You're Making.

HuggingFace's one-command vLLM deploy is easy. Here's the cost, latency, and lock-in math that decides whether you should actually self-host inference.

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StrategyJune 24, 20265 min read

GPT-5 Pro Cracked an Immunology Mystery. Should You Copy the Pattern?

GPT-5 Pro solved a 3-year immunology puzzle. Here's the engineering pattern that made it work — and when to skip frontier reasoning for a cheaper workflow.

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StrategyJune 12, 20264 min read

At 4B Tokens/Day, Your Agent Stack Is a Routing Problem

Okara pushes 4B daily tokens across multiple providers on Vercel. The lesson for agent teams: at scale, orchestration is solved—token routing isn't.

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StrategyJune 10, 20266 min read

Nemotron 3.5 Safety: Why One Filter Won't Hold Your Agents

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety is customizable—and that's the trap. Why agent safety has to be per-decision, and what it costs to do right.

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StrategyJune 10, 20266 min read

Why "Just Add an Agent" Killed Amazing Digital Dentures

Amazing Digital Dentures bolted an LLM agent onto a supply chain it didn't own. Here's why agents fail without deep domain integration—and what to build instead.

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StrategyOctober 14, 20256 min read

When to build an agent vs. a workflow

Agents and workflows look similar from the outside. They cost very different amounts to maintain. Here's how we pick.

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StrategyAugust 21, 20255 min read

The hidden cost of manual ops

Manual operations rarely show up in a budget. They show up in the people who quietly leave.

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