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Joshua Wendt

Articles by Joshua Wendt on AI implementation, workflow automation, and software engineering.

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Claude API Version 2026-10-21: What Breaks When You Upgrade the SDKs, and What Else Changed This Week

Anthropic's 2026-10-21 API version drops temperature, top_p and top_k. New SDK majors add their own breaks and move to Apache 2.0. Pin or upgrade?

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FLUX 3 Image Klein: 5.6B Open Weights That Target 8 GB GPUs, Free Below $5M Revenue

FLUX 3 Image Klein: 5.6B open weights for image generation and editing, an INT8 build pitched at 8 GB GPUs, free under $5M revenue, and a $0.008 API tier.

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Meta's Muse Spark Open: 816B Open Weights to Rent by the Token or Run on Two Mac Studios

Meta's 816B/42B-active Muse Spark Open: a $20M MaaS license clause, 700 GB VRAM or two Mac Studios to self-host, or $1.25/$4.25 per 1M tokens hosted.

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Cheap Agent Pricing, and Weights Under a License That Wants Notice

MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs $0.15 in and $0.60 out per million tokens. The Hugging Face weights carry a community license with a $20M revenue line.

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Mistral Timestral: Time-Series Forecasting From 5M to 209M Parameters on a CPU

Mistral's Timestral forecasters run from 5M to 209M parameters on a CPU, output 21 quantiles and carry a Modified MIT license with a $20M revenue cap.

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Recursive Flint: An Apache 2.0 Coding MoE With 2.5B Active Parameters and a 23 GB Ollama Build

Recursive's Flint is a 39.8B MoE coding model with about 2.5B active parameters, Apache 2.0 weights and a 23 GB Ollama build. What the vendor numbers omit.

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Pricing a Voice Agent After Voxtral 3 and Eleven Realtime

Eleven Realtime bills $0.08 a minute plus LLM tokens, Mistral's Voxtral 3 agent is $0.04 or $0.08, GPT-Live-1 is $0.05 plus backend. What a minute costs.

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Granite Switch 4.1 Combines Chat, Decisions and Speech

IBM combines chat, decision adapters and English transcription in Granite Switch 4.1. What the shared deployment offers, and what to test.

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Anthropic's OSS Scanner Sends Free Vulnerability Reports With No Human Review

Anthropic's free OSS Scanner emails unreviewed, model-written bug reports to maintainers. How to enroll, what 88% and 90% mean, and disclosure terms.

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Claude Managed Agents Adds Server-Run Workflows and OpenTelemetry Tracing

Anthropic's Managed Agents can now run fan-out workflows on its servers and export traces over OTLP. Limits, billing, content defaults and what to test.

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Gemini 4 Argon Costs $2/$10 Until November 30, and Old Gemini Code Needs Changes

Gemini 4 Argon is on the paid Gemini API at $2/$10 per 1M tokens until Nov 30, then $4/$20. Explicit caching is gone and sampling params are ignored.

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Gemini API Reroutes 3.7 and 3.5 Flash Calls, and Deep Research Pro Preview Can End October 23

Since October 8, gemini-3.7-flash and 3.5-flash calls are served by 3.8 and 3.6 Flash. What changes, what to retest, and the Deep Research deadline.