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https://quesma.com/blog/the-true-cost-of-saying-hi-to-an-ai-...

Tokenflation seems very real: the number of tokens consumed by simple tasks keeps increasing.

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It looks like much more context is required to decide on the best model (e.g., summarizing logs might use a cheap model, whereas you likely want Opus/Mythos/GPT 5.6 to debug multithreading logic). In an agentic system, a decision about the model may be embedded in the decision to orchestrate the model.

The protests in Czechoslovakia came later, called the Velvet Revolution, from 17 to 28 November 1989. In June 1990, Czechoslovakia held its first democratic elections, a year after Poland.

Poland paved the way for the whole of central and eastern Europe. The Round Table produced the negotiated-exit template that Hungary built on in its own talks that summer, and that Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and the Baltics drew on as their regimes fell within months.

And it did so from the deepest macroeconomic crisis of any of the satellite states: hyperinflation running into the hundreds of percent by late 1989, an unresolved sovereign default from 1981, and chronic shortages.

Since then Poland has converged fastest of any of them. From a low base it has climbed to the upper-middle of central and eastern Europe by GDP per capita PPP, overtaken Hungary, and is now closing on Czechia and Slovenia.

It is a story of a country that made a lot of the right decisions along the way. Managed to keep consistent high growth, not a pony trick or boom/bust mode.

Poland should be a role model for many other countries.

Recommend a book: https://www.amazon.com/Europes-Growth-Champion-Insights-Econ...

And Noah's blog post: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-polandmalaysia-model

- No outdoor unit that looks awful in many settings

- works well, even in the coldest winter, without a spike in electricity usage, COP 5

- very reliable with long durability

- super quiet, no ambient noise

- 20% more efficient

Currently, drilling is very disruptive in retrofits, but there is progress in compact techniques that might change the equation.

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The code is open-source; you can run it yourself using Harbor Framework:

git clone git@github.com:QuesmaOrg/BinaryAudit.git

export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=...

harbor run --path tasks --task-name lighttpd-* --agent terminus-2 --model openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 --model openrouter/google/gemini-3-pro-preview --model openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2 --n-attempts 3

Please open PR if you find something interesting, though our domain experts spend fair amount of time looking at trajectories.

Your approach, however, makes a lot of sense if you are ready to have your own custom or fine-tuned model.

Still, Ghidra's most painful limitation was extremely slow time with Go Lang. We had to exclude that example from the benchmark.

Open-source GitHub: https://github.com/QuesmaOrg/BinaryAudit

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Actually, AI has huge potential for superhuman capabilities in reverse engineering. This is an extremely tedious job with low productivity. Currently reserved, primarily when there is no other option (e.g., malware analysis). AI can make binary analysis go mainstream for proactive audits to secure against supply-chain attacks.

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