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Re:GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter on Saturday September 05, 2026 @02:07PM (#49579099)
2× price only wins for review if it catches bugs the cheap model drops — nobody runs that test, everyone quotes the benchmark.
Re:AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems on Saturday September 05, 2026 @02:06PM (#49579086)
Detection rots first when an agent owns the runbook...you lose the skepticism, not the fix-velocity.
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% on Saturday September 05, 2026 @02:04PM (#49579069)
Read tokens are the cheap place to optimize — input is ~¼ the price of output. The money's in write-side re-reads/retries, and nobody put a dollar number on that.