https://ok-robot.co/blog.html Lessons, insights, and hard-won knowledge from building production AI systems. Written by operators, not observers. en-us Copyright 2026 OK ROBOT LLC Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT OK ROBOT https://ok-robot.co/images/ok_robot_logo_400.png https://ok-robot.co/blog.html https://ok-robot.co/blog-post.html?post=rising-costs-of-proprietary-llms https://ok-robot.co/blog-post.html?post=rising-costs-of-proprietary-llms Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT okrobot@bio-teck.com (Teckxx) AI Economics Strategy Per-token prices look stable, but real LLM bills are climbing fast. A breakdown of why agentic workloads, longer context, and tokenizer changes are inflating costs — and what to do about it. https://ok-robot.co/blog-post.html?post=how-language-models-think https://ok-robot.co/blog-post.html?post=how-language-models-think Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT okrobot@bio-teck.com (Teckxx) AI Research Technical A technical breakdown — with interactive diagrams — of what actually happens when a language model processes input: forward pass mechanics, chain-of-thought, and trained extended reasoning. https://ok-robot.co/blog-post.html?post=have-we-reached-peak-attention https://ok-robot.co/blog-post.html?post=have-we-reached-peak-attention Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT okrobot@bio-teck.com (Teckxx) AI Research Architecture The Transformer's attention mechanism has dominated AI for a decade. Now a wave of new architectures — SSMs, linear attention, xLSTM, and hybrids — is challenging its reign. Here's where the research stands. https://ok-robot.co/blog-post.html?post=why-most-ai-projects-fail https://ok-robot.co/blog-post.html?post=why-most-ai-projects-fail Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT okrobot@bio-teck.com (Teckxx) AI Strategy Lessons The failure rate for enterprise AI is around 80%. After 30 years in the field, here are the five patterns I see over and over — and what to do instead. https://ok-robot.co/blog-post.html?post=welcome-to-ok-robot https://ok-robot.co/blog-post.html?post=welcome-to-ok-robot Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT okrobot@bio-teck.com (Teckxx) Company Announcement Introducing our blog — where we share what we've learned building AI systems that actually work.