Why is that, actually?

Standalone explainers for questions that surface while you build. Not a Q&A catalogue: the question is only the occasion, the text is the explanation - and every piece stands on its own.

• July 31, 2026

  Why the tenth turn costs a hundred times what the first one did

  An agent that works through ten steps doesn't make ten small requests - it makes ten ever-larger ones. Why the bill doesn't grow linearly but, in total, quadratically.

  Readcost · context · tokens

• July 30, 2026

  Why a model sounds more certain when it's wrong than when it's right

  Invented libraries, invented statutes, invented citations - delivered without the slightest hesitation. That's not a glitch; it follows directly from what the model was trained to do.

  Readhallucination · trust · training

• July 29, 2026

  Why the answer stops mid-sentence

  The output halts as if someone pulled the plug - mid-word, mid-line of code. Four causes are candidates, and in the result they look almost identical.

  Readtokens · truncation · operations