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Opinion from our editors and guest writers on where AI is going and where it should not.

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System One models vs LLMs: most AI calls should decide, not talk

Routing, gating, judging and choosing an agent's next step are decisions, not writing. Splitting decision from generation is the right architecture, and TypeSafe's Jev is the first product built for it. Trust will come from independently measured calibration, not a promise that it cannot hallucinate.

14 min read

Stop calling it hallucination

The word implies a glitch in an otherwise reliable mind. The published evidence says something plainer: models are trained and graded to guess, and the remedy depends on saying so.

10 min read

Tokenmaxxing: why token leaderboards measured the wrong thing

In the spring of 2026, engineers at large technology companies competed on leaderboards ranked by how many AI tokens they consumed. By summer the leaderboards were gone and the budgets were blown. The episode is a lesson in what a token is: a unit of cost, not a unit of work.

18 min read