Weekly AI & Engineering Digest — Nov 02, 2026
by Vamshi • 11/2/2026Why temperature 0 still isn't deterministic, prefix-aware routing's 170x faster first token, DeepSeek's disk KV cache, Uber's MCP gateway, and Anthropic's IPO filing.
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Why temperature 0 still isn't deterministic, prefix-aware routing's 170x faster first token, DeepSeek's disk KV cache, Uber's MCP gateway, and Anthropic's IPO filing.
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Read PostKV cache transfer cuts model handoffs 25x, Netflix's GenRec reranks with an LLM, chunked prefill keeps vLLM responsive, plus why LLMs cave under pressure and forget the middle.
Read PostDoorDash's agent tool gateway, MPP agent payments, why LLMs hallucinate, and GPU execution internals — plus Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, and Gemini 4 Argon all shipping this week.
Read PostJev's actual mechanics: SGLang scoring, Opik-as-judge, NVIDIA/Stanford's rival CLM. Plus MoE serving internals and this week's Anthropic/OpenAI price war.
Read PostAgent harnesses can 2x inference cost for a 1pt accuracy gain. Plus RAG retrieval internals, LLM memory architecture, LLM-as-judge evals, GPU VRAM math, and GRPO fine-tuning.
Read PostDeepSeek's V4.1-Flash cuts KV cache 4x, OpenAI's 10K agents cracked Navier-Stokes, Anthropic found 151M Claude distillation exchanges. Plus 6 deep-dives on routing and serving.
Read PostGPT-6 Astra's benchmarks and safety classification, attention-mechanism internals, embedding compression, RAG retrieval failures, how Shopify beat GPT-5.6 with a 0.8B model.
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