Writing an AI blog post, in the end, still needs to be turned into engineering (Part 3)
After going through all the configurations in the repository, I am even more certain about one thing: what matters in the end is not how strong any single model is, but rather who should bear the cost at each layer.
The most obvious signal is that the currently active published.runtime.json is still the one generated on April 2, 2026, for minimax-m2, yet the entry from April 3, 2026, at 16:38, labeled 5f17088, has switched the default provider for blog-style-suite to the local gemma-4-26b-a4b in LM Studio. This might look inconsistent, but it actually isn’t; it precisely illustrates that this pipeline has begun to specialize.