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The thinking, in longer form.

Perspectives, analyses, and field guides on efficient AI — the arguments behind our research, written to be read slowly. The lead piece first, the reading list below.

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Lead articleGuide4 min read

Getting started with the LegionEdge cloud console

This guide covers everything from requesting an organization to issuing your first API key at cloud.legionedge.ai.Oct 14, 2026Read the article

PerspectiveJun 26, 20261 min read
AI-native applications need protocols, not plugins
Plugins bolt intelligence onto software built for humans. Protocols let software and models meet halfway.
AnalysisJun 12, 20261 min read
The real cost of a design iteration
A spacing fix costs 30 seconds in a design tool and hours in production. The gap compounds.

The reading list

May 29, 2026Guide
Small models, big workloads: a field guide to distillation
When distillation works, what it silently breaks, and how to keep the skills you actually need.1 min read
May 14, 2026Perspective
Context is a budget: treat tokens like compute
Nobody ships an unprofiled hot loop, but everyone ships unprofiled prompts. That asymmetry is expensive.1 min read
Apr 30, 2026Guide
Fine-tuning or retrieval? A decision framework
The wrong choice here burns months. Four questions that settle it before you spend a dollar of compute.1 min read
Apr 16, 2026Analysis
Agent reliability is an interface problem
Agents don't fail because models are dumb. They fail where unstructured interfaces let errors compound.1 min read

The thinking, in longer form.

Getting started with the LegionEdge cloud console

AI-native applications need protocols, not plugins

The real cost of a design iteration

The reading list

Small models, big workloads: a field guide to distillation

Context is a budget: treat tokens like compute

Fine-tuning or retrieval? A decision framework

Agent reliability is an interface problem