The Lanterns
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- 10 min read
The Rungs Don't Move: AI Pricing, and Why the Harness Is the Real Fight
Across three generations of OpenAI models the prices land on the same four numbers. What changes is how much intelligence stands on each rung. That reframes the price war, explains why building on top of frontier models has not got cheaper, and points at where the competition actually moved.
- 8 min read
The Em Dash Is a Tell: Making AI-Written Email Stop Sounding Like a Machine
One user's AI-drafted emails kept coming out full of em dashes. The root cause wasn't the model alone, it was our own pipeline teaching itself the habit. Why we stopped asking the model nicely and started enforcing the rule in code.