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AI Agents

Idempotency in Agent Actions: Safe to Repeat by Design

Agents retry, resume and duplicate calls constantly. Idempotency keys, natural keys and check-then-act patterns that stop one action happening three times.

· 9 min read
Fundamentals

Inference vs Training Cost: Which One Is Actually Your Problem

Training is a one-off capital cost you never pay. Inference is a recurring cost you pay per request. How the two differ and why the distinction shapes pricing.

· 9 min read
Fundamentals

Instruction Tuning: How a Text Predictor Becomes an Assistant

· 8 min read
Guides

JetBrains LLM Setup: Custom Endpoints in IntelliJ IDEs

· 8 min read
Guides

JSON Schema for Tool Calls: What Providers Actually Support

· 9 min read
Guides

Kilo Code Setup Guide: Custom Endpoints and Profiles

· 8 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 Guide: Specs, Pricing and Where It Still Wins

· 8 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash: Four Axes That Decide It

· 9 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro: Sight or Depth

· 9 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 vs GLM-5.2: Vision and 256K, or MIT and 1M

· 8 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 vs MiniMax M3: Two Ways to Do Multimodal

· 9 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen 3.6: Hosted MoE or a Single GPU

· 9 min read
Models

Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash: The Widest Gap in Open Weights

· 9 min read
Models

Kimi K3 vs Kimi K2.6: Is the Upgrade Worth 4x the Price?

· 8 min read

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