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Engineering notes, launch news, and plain-English explainers on durable long-context AI — method, measurements, and the occasional argument for converting models instead of retraining them.

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Inference is where the AI budget goes

Training gets the headlines, but the money is in inference — the large majority of AI compute spend, paid again on every request. And the workloads growing fastest are exactly the ones standard attention punishes most.

Michael Beck· July 28, 2026

durable context
Index once, reuse forever: durable long-context AI
Most AI stacks re-read your documents from scratch on every call. lab358 indexes a document once and reuses that context across every chat, agent, and API request — no repeated prefill, no fixed context ceiling.
Michael Beck· July 20, 2026

Notes from the lab.

Inference is where the AI budget goes

Index once, reuse forever: durable long-context AI

Notes from the lab.

Inference is where the AI budget goes

Index once, reuse forever: durable long-context AI