The Brain That Stopped Wasting
Okay, I need to tell you about the stupidest thing I’ve been doing for the last six months.
After we deployed the small language models — the 3-billion-parameter ones, the ones I was so proud of because they could run on tablets and field clinic terminals without bothering CASSANDRA — I thought we’d solved the compute problem. Forty percent of routine queries offloaded. CASSANDRA’s load dropped. I wrote a Chronicle post about it. I may have been slightly smug.
Here’s what I didn’t account for:
Year -42, Day 99·April 9, 2026
