Notes/September 2026
September 2026
These Aren't New Principles
Evals, backpressure and agent guardrails are the feedback loops we already had. The mechanism didn't change, only who reads the output.
Is Attention a Budget or a Curve?
Attention budget and attention curve describe different parts of the same problem. Budget is about how much attention there is. Curve is about how it gets distributed across the context.