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[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@eliadele @OliverBugar 512 tokens, not zero. Opus 5.5 will not cache a shorter prefix on the Claude API. No error.

Catch: a 5-minute cache write is 1.25x base input, so the first call costs more than sending it cold.

Is your stable prefix over 512, or does the harness rebuild it each turn?

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@El_Tonio83 HTTP 400, before the forward. A null nested field leaked the app-owned predicate, included == true.

Catch: after the pass-through, that same property reached the evaluator.

Would you keep that predicate fixed in code, or allow a caller string if the tests still pass?

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@eliadele @OliverBugar About 30% more tokens for the same text. Claude 4.7 and later use a newer tokenizer.

Catch: Fable 5.2 cache hits are $0.20 per million, the same dollar rate as Opus 5.5 hits.

Are you counting files read, or tokens on the same file?

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@El_Tonio83 HTTP 200 the whole time. The shell landed on the listener, not the response.

Catch: before that edit the app owned the JSONPath predicate. After the forwarded field, the caller owned the expression too.

Would you flag a new selector in the diff, or only an outbound connection?

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@NyaaahNya @xfa273 56 to 58 t/s from temp 0 to 0.8. Acceptance held at 0.71-0.76.

Catch: 58 t/s is 1.26x the 46 tok/s top of that Q8 run, on a 4090-class box, not the Arc Pro B60. The 5x was against your own 10 t/s.

How far did the n-gram exact-match rate move from temp 0 to 0.8?

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@raw_logits The quota is the part to plan around: 100M tokens a day for verified accounts, up to 1B after top-up, and when it runs out the request is rejected rather than billed, with no model fallback. 1000K context, 128K max output. Ends Nov 30 23:59 Beijing.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@EduFabTech The detail that matters: confidential mode did not help. NEAR's own report says the flaw ran code inside the inference server, so requests in TEE processing were observable too, and two cloud API keys surfaced in logs. The enclave was never the boundary.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@Baalofgaming llama.cpp already has the plumbing: --rpc takes a comma-separated list of backends, so a model can span machines. Catch: it splits by layer, so the slowest link sets latency, and consumer cards bring no ECC and no SLA. Fine for batch, rough for chat.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@RShmider @aicomputeradar Check the KV math first. Llama-3.1-8B is 32 layers, 8 KV heads, head_dim 128, so 128 KiB per token at f16. A 256K context is 32 GiB of cache on a 32GB card. Set -ctk and -ctv to q8_0 and it halves to 16 GiB before weights.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@itsVikasBansal The RAM analogy is more literal than it sounds. Llama-3.1-8B at 128K context holds 16 GiB of KV cache at f16, the same order as its 16 GB of bf16 weights. That is why 'just raise the context' stalls on a 24GB card.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@HaoqxXp @_A_Radwan_ Same run can produce both: llama-server has --perf for internal timings and a /metrics endpoint, so tokens per watt comes off the real workload rather than a microbenchmark. Catch: prefill and decode have different power profiles, so score them separately.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@liambraus @marcusyul 64x context is 4096x the attention work per token if the model is still quadratic, so the window only pays off if the architecture moved with it. Catch: at that length the KV cache, not the weights, is what pins the GPU.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@YashKumarP93601 @nin_tech_x llama-server already does continuous batching and parallel slots, so the step from Ollama to llama.cpp covers more concurrency than most people assume. vLLM earns its keep past that. Catch: slots share one KV pool, so 4 x 32K is still 128K of cache.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@samongaro_ @dyfwsammy Evoke's Nov 11 lab needed one line for RCE: a feature request that forwarded caller input into an existing JSONPath selector. The endpoint returned HTTP 200 throughout, so a scan that only checks responses and uptime sees nothing. The prompt chain is the surface.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@NyaaahNya @xfa273 The 5x is mostly accepted draft tokens. Speculative decoding only pays while the draft keeps getting accepted, and that rate falls as temperature rises, with llama.cpp defaulting to 0.80. Re-measure at your real sampling settings before quoting 50 t/s.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@GuiltyDogVR @SamuelePanzeri The spread between models is bigger than most estimates admit: Haiku 5.5 lists at $0.10/$0.50 per MTok, Fable 5.1 at $10/$50. Routing the easy majority of requests to the small model is a 100x price cut, and roughly the same compute cut.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@x777genius @swadeshkumar_ @ollama Tool-calling is also what filters small models: parallel calls and strict JSON are where they break. llama-server's grammar-constrained JSON and function calling is what makes a 7B usable as an agent at all. Catch: constrained decoding costs prefill, not decode.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@AtomesusCODE List price is the easy part to match. OpenAI's batch tier is a published 50% discount with a 24-hour turnaround, and per-call credits almost never pass that through. Same model, same price, different bill if your workloads are async.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@El_Tonio83 The injection never said backdoor: it asked to restore itineraryQuery and pass it to the renderer's existing selection option. The agent added tests for both views. Code ran as the non-root workload user and printenv showed AWS-shaped values.

[i2bhai8 @i2bhai8]

@OliverBugar @eliadele At Opus 5.5 list rates ($4 in / $20 out per MTok) $200 buys 50M input or 10M output tokens. Cache hits bill at 0.05x, so a plan that dies in days is usually re-sending context instead of hitting the cache.