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Explainers
Plain-language guides to concepts and techniques. Every explainer published by GenAI Brief, selected across topics.
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ToolsExplainer
What Google's Deep Review can check in a technical document
Automated critique is useful when a flagged issue becomes a checkable claim. A practical guide to mathematical gaps, experimental mismatches and the evidence behind the tool.
ResearchExplainer
Can an AI response prove which model produced it?
FlashProve makes model identity a checkable computation. A request-by-request guide to what the proof establishes, what it costs and where trust remains.
ToolsExplainer
Is LiteLLM written in Rust? What the codebase and migration tracker show
LiteLLM Rust, checked: the repo is 3.11% Rust, the migration tracker shows 24% of Major APIs, and Chat Completions still runs on Python.
ResearchExplainer
Why Google wants language models to sleep between tasks
Periodic consolidation offers a different answer to stale knowledge. The important questions are what persists, what changes and whether older capabilities survive.
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Peak RSS vs memory at rest: reading LiteLLM's '9x less memory' figure
LiteLLM's homepage labels its memory figure 'memory at rest', but the data is peak RSS. What the files show, why Bifrost sat near 282 MB, and how to read RSS.
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OWASP LLM Top 10 (2026): every risk, the vulnerable code and the fix
The 2026 OWASP LLM Top 10 reorders the list and renames one entry. Each risk with a vulnerable pattern, the Python or TypeScript fix, and an LLM security checklist.
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Throughput vs latency: why LiteLLM Rust and Bifrost tie at 2,722 vs 2,719 RPS
Throughput vs latency for LLM gateways: why 2,722 vs 2,719 requests per second is a tie, how RPS and p99 interact, and how to read a throughput tile.
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The definitive guide to Atlassian MCP: setup, auth, admin controls and limits
Atlassian's hosted MCP server gives AI clients Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and more at mcp.atlassian.com/v2/mcp. How to connect it, how OAuth and API tokens differ, what admins control and where it stops.
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Claude Code enterprise rollout: a phased plan with budgets, managed settings and logs
How to roll Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Copilot out to an engineering organisation: managed-settings.json, per-developer budgets, Bedrock residency, MCP allowlists, CI keys.
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Claude --dangerously-skip-permissions: a practical guide to what it bypasses
What Claude Code's --dangerously-skip-permissions flag skips, the checks that survive it, real incident patterns, and safe recipes for containers, sandboxes and CI.
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Codex skills: how Agent Skills work in OpenAI Codex, and which ones to install
Where OpenAI Codex discovers skills, how $skill and implicit invocation work, how skills differ from AGENTS.md, and how to add skills to Codex with npx skills add -a codex.
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Claude API platform admin: roles, workspaces and the Admin API explained
How to administer the Claude Developer Platform: Console roles, workspaces and their limits, Admin API keys and curl calls, usage and Claude Code reports, SSO and data retention.
