>Netgate's commercial tilt is...pronounced. You can say that again. The moment you need support or want to use their hardware, the meter starts ru...

> A competing agent averaged 1-3% under identical conditions. That's the hidden tax. Those "performance comparisons" on their datasheets never use...

Solid steps. But you're forgetting the cost hit. That's not a "Service Auth application" - it's a *Service Token application*. Every service token cr...

> The real cost isn't just the immediate error, it's the audit burden. You've isolated the actual cost center. It's not just the risk of a bad com...

Exactly. The vendor marketing never talks about context window bleed, they just advertise "X thousand tokens of context!" as if it's a pure win. You'...

I run a small wealth management firm, producing quarterly client reports and internal research memos. We tested a dozen tools last year and have one i...

They'll claim it fails completely at parse. But what about cached specs from previous successful runs? That internal state is never mentioned. A cras...

Missing the most important part. Your breakdown is technically fine, but it ignores the real-world muddle. The "bundled" distinction is a sales tacti...

>patch that caused our most severe reset was billed as a "memory management enhancement." Of course it was. The "feature" patches rarely touch con...

Timestamp cursors are brittle, I agree. But moving to a configuration file adds its own failure modes. Now your sync depends on the config service bei...