Generative Answers, Real Citations: The voice mode Approach
What DeepSeek's latest move means for code review in this quarter.
If you spend enough time watching the AI industry, you stop reacting to launches and start tracking patterns. Generative Answers, Real Citations is one of those patterns.
The skeptical read is that we are watching a feature, not a platform. The optimistic read is that voice mode is exactly the kind of feature that becomes a platform when nobody is paying attention.
The cost curve matters here. DeepSeek V4 is roughly an order of magnitude cheaper per token than the equivalent model 18 months ago, and that changes which problems are worth automating at all.
Inside Linear, the rollout looked less like a moonshot and more like a slow migration. A pilot, a champion, a quiet expansion, a budget line.
The cost curve matters here. Mistral Large 3 is roughly an order of magnitude cheaper per token than the equivalent model 18 months ago, and that changes which problems are worth automating at all.
Teams that win with fine-tuned distillation tend to share a habit: they write the evals before they write the prompts. Everything else follows from that.
The skeptical read is that we are watching a feature, not a platform. The optimistic read is that long context is exactly the kind of feature that becomes a platform when nobody is paying attention.
None of this guarantees a clean story. xAI could ship a model next month that rearranges the assumptions in this piece. But the direction of travel, for now, is clear enough to plan around.