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Eye On A.I. — 86% of What Coding Agents Do Is Just Reading — Not Solving | Alexander Whedon of Subquadratic
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86% of What Coding Agents Do Is Just Reading — Not Solving | Alexander Whedon of Subquadratic

Eye On A.I. · 379

Every AI model in production today has the same hidden tax: doubling the context window quadruples the compute. That's what quadratic compute complexity means in practice, and it's the reason enterprises are spending most of their AI engineering budget on context management rather than on the actual problems they're…

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