<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Quesma Blog</title><description>Exploring coding agent analytics, cost intelligence, token economics, AI evaluation, benchmarks, and how agent spend connects to engineering and company outcomes</description><link>https://quesma.com/</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>© 2026 Quesma Inc.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:49:46 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>RTK reports huge token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/does-rtk-make-ai-coding-cheaper/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/does-rtk-make-ai-coding-cheaper/</guid><description>We tested RTK (Rust Token Killer) with Claude Code on Fable 5.0, and OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Terminal-Bench 2.1.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Bartosz Kotrys, Jacek Migdal</author></item><item><title>Knowledge vs wisdom: asking AI “What mushroom is that?”</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/mushroom-llm-just-ask/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/mushroom-llm-just-ask/</guid><description>AI mushroom identification from a photo with ChatGPT, Claude or Google Gemini: GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 and GLM-5.3-Flash. Asked “What mushroom is that?” on 360 photos of poisonous species. Which warn, which get it right, which fail.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/mushroom-llm-vision/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/mushroom-llm-vision/</guid><description>Mushroom identification with AI: GPT-5.6-Sol, Gemini 3.8 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash and Claude Fable 5.1 benchmarked on poisonous and edible species of FungiTastic. A lot of dangerous errors.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:26:32 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>OpenAI Codex pricing: the $270 PR a $200/month sub covers daily</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/codex-pricing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/codex-pricing/</guid><description>A buyer’s guide to OpenAI Codex for individuals, teams, and enterprises. Includes comparisons with Claude Code.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jacek Migdal</author></item><item><title>Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/qwen38-27b-quantizations-benchmarked/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/qwen38-27b-quantizations-benchmarked/</guid><description>I test Unsloth GGUFs of Qwen3.8 27B (Q4_K_M, UD-Q2_K_XL, UD-IQ1_S) with llama.cpp on GPQA Diamond, IFBench, Terminal-Bench 2.1. Q4_K_M matches BF16 abd fits an RTX 4090.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>Gemini 3.7 Flash, Grok 4.6, GLM-5.3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro joined the frontier</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/baba-is-aug-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/baba-is-aug-2026/</guid><description>August 2026 on Baba Is Bench: Gemini 3.7 Flash, Grok 4.6 and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 each beat their predecessor while costing 3-20x less. For open-weight GLM-5.3 and Qwen3.8 progress is gradual.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>Claude Code pricing: same tokens, same model, up to 40x the price</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/claude-code-pricing-for-enterprise/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/claude-code-pricing-for-enterprise/</guid><description>Claude Code buyer’s guide, August 2026: what Max, Team, and Enterprise cost, how to get the best deal, and how Uber and Shopify cap the spend.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jacek Migdal</author></item><item><title>I wired 4 models together in Claude Code. One refused, and it backfired 4 ways on Terminal-Bench</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/multi-model-claude-code-refusal-terminal-bench/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/multi-model-claude-code-refusal-terminal-bench/</guid><description>Four Claude models wired together in Claude Code: model refusals on delegated security tasks, seventh place, twice the cost of the top single-model run.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Bartosz Kotrys</author></item><item><title>Quantization hurts knowledge nonlinearly - Qwen3.6 27B case study</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/quantization-hurts-knowledge/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/quantization-hurts-knowledge/</guid><description>Quantization is a lossy compression, and factual knowledge is incompressible. We test Qwen3.6 27B GGUF quantizations from Hugging Face (by Unsloth and Bartowski) and llama.cpp on the Incompressible Knowledge Probes (IKP) benchmark.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>Kimi K3 is Open, Opus 5 is Good, DeepSeek V4 Flash is Cheap: LLMs on Baba Is You</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/baba-kimi-k3-opus-5/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/baba-kimi-k3-opus-5/</guid><description>We evaluate July 2026 fresh releases Kimi K3, Claude Opus 5, Grok 4.5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 on Baba Is Bench, an LLM agent benchmark based on the puzzle game Baba Is You, comparing pass rate, speed, and cost with Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał, Piotr Grabowski</author></item><item><title>A lesson about retries, hidden in the DeepSeek-V4 paper</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/hidden-lesson-deepseek-paper/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/hidden-lesson-deepseek-paper/</guid><description>A warning hidden in the DeepSeek-V4 paper says retrying interrupted LLM requests is mathematically incorrect — it introduces length bias. I reproduced it on 100,000 poems.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Grabowski</author></item><item><title>Do Qwen3.6 27B quantizations break the pelican?</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-quantization-quality/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-quantization-quality/</guid><description>We tested Qwen3.6 27B quantizations by Unsloth on Hugging Face, with pelicans on bikes, gears, Terminal-Bench 2.1, and AIME-120.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/custom-deep-research-pipeline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/custom-deep-research-pipeline/</guid><description>How I burned a full Claude limit in 30 minutes and built my own deep research pipeline instead: 3 subscriptions, shared memory, a clear role for each model. You can build the same from what you already pay for.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Bartosz Kotrys</author></item><item><title>Baba Is Solved by Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, but at what cost?</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/baba-is-bench/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/baba-is-bench/</guid><description>We ported the puzzle game Baba Is You to the Harbor framework, and benchmarked current models, including Claude, GPT, Gemini, GLM, and DeepSeek. A human Twitch streamer is 4x faster than Claude Fable 5.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał, Piotr Grabowski</author></item><item><title>Tokenflation: When “Hi” triggers 33 tool calls</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/tokenflation-when-hi-triggers-33-tool-calls/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/tokenflation-when-hi-triggers-33-tool-calls/</guid><description>Tokenflation: simple tasks consuming ever more context, reasoning, and tool calls without more useful output. We benchmarked 14 models; one answered “Hi” with 33 tool calls and an unsolicited commit.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Rafał Strzaliński</author></item><item><title>Qwen3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/</guid><description>Qwen3.6 27B is finally a smart model we can use for coding on MacBook or NVIDIA RTX - with llama.cpp and OpenCode.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:34:14 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>Compare harnesses, not models: Blitzy vs. GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/verifying-blitzy-swe-bench-pro/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/verifying-blitzy-swe-bench-pro/</guid><description>An independent audit of agentic scaffolding and harnesses. We analyze how agent workflows, codebase documentation, and test verification impact performance compared to raw base models like GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Claude Code.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał, Piotr Grabowski</author></item><item><title>Reviving the 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/chromatron-recompiled/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/chromatron-recompiled/</guid><description>Decompiling the classic laser puzzle game Chromatron from Windows XP and PowerPC executables into Rust. A pixel-perfect port using Claude Code, Opus 4.6, Cursor, GPT-5.2-Codex, and Ghidra.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>We hid backdoors in ~40 MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-binaryaudit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-binaryaudit/</guid><description>BinaryAudit benchmarks AI agents using Ghidra to find backdoors in compiled binaries of real open-source servers, proxies, and network infrastructure.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Grabowski, Rafał Strzaliński, Michał Kowalczyk, Piotr Migdał, Jacek Migdal</author></item><item><title>Reverse engineering River Raid with Claude, Ghidra, and MCP</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/ghidra-mcp-unlimited-lives/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/ghidra-mcp-unlimited-lives/</guid><description>Connecting Claude to Ghidra via MCP to reverse engineer River Raid. A test of AI agents against 6502 assembly, memory mapping, and 80s game logic.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Rafał Strzaliński</author></item><item><title>Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: can AI trace your failed login?</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-otel-bench/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-otel-bench/</guid><description>A lot of vendors pitch AI SRE. We tested 14 models across 11 programming languages; even the best ones struggle with instrumenting code with the leading open-source standard, OpenTelemetry.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Przemek Delewski, Rafał Strzaliński, Piotr Migdał, Jacek Migdal</author></item><item><title>Vibe coding needs git blame</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/vibe-code-git-blame/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/vibe-code-git-blame/</guid><description>Prompts are specs, not code. This influences git workflows for vibe coding, tracking LLM prompts in GitHub repositories, managing commit messages, and debugging non-deterministic AI outputs.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:37:52 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>How 2025 took AI from party tricks to production tools</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/year-of-ai-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/year-of-ai-2025/</guid><description>AI reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1, agentic coding tools like Claude Code, and image generation with Nano Banana Pro set daily software engineering standards.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>Migrating CompileBench to Harbor: standardizing AI agent evals</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/compilebench-in-harbor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/compilebench-in-harbor/</guid><description>Standardizing AI agent evaluation with Harbor: an open-source framework for reproducible benchmarks, reinforcement learning, and collaborative evals.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Przemysław Hejman, Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>Antigravity feels heavy and Claude Skills are light</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/claude-skills-not-antigravity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/claude-skills-not-antigravity/</guid><description>Comparing Google Antigravity and Claude Code for AI-assisted workflows, and why custom Claude Skills might be the better approach.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:43:52 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>Outside of the bubble, AI is Black Mirror</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/ai-is-black-mirror/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/ai-is-black-mirror/</guid><description>A reality check on AI enthusiasm: how a simple chart generated vitriolic reactions outside the tech bubble.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:55:36 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>Nano Banana Pro: raw intelligence with tool use</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/nano-banana-pro-intelligence-with-tools/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/nano-banana-pro-intelligence-with-tools/</guid><description>Finally, an AI that can draw a map or create an infographic. The capability of leveraging tools pushed the frontier of image generation.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jacek Migdal, Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>A postmortem on our $2.5 million database gateway: lessons from pilot purgatory</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/database-gateway-postmortem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/database-gateway-postmortem/</guid><description>We had a great team, $2.5 million, and a validated problem. A year later, we sold our IP for parts. Here’s what we learned about urgency and co-foundership.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:04:56 GMT</pubDate><author>Jacek Migdal</author></item><item><title>The security paradox of local LLMs</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/local-llms-security-paradox/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/local-llms-security-paradox/</guid><description>Local LLMs prioritize privacy over security. Our research reveals a 95% backdoor injection success rate.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jacek Migdal</author></item><item><title>AI for coding is still playing Go, not StarCraft</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/coding-is-starcraft-not-go/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/coding-is-starcraft-not-go/</guid><description>AI excels at clean algorithms but fails at messy, real-world codebases. The solution lies not in Go-like intelligence, but StarCraft-like complexity.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał</author></item><item><title>CompileBench: can AI compile 22-year-old code?</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-compilebench/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-compilebench/</guid><description>We tested 19 LLMs on their ability to handle real-world software engineering tasks like compiling old code and cross-compiling. See how Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models stack up in our new benchmark – CompileBench.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:06:56 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Grabowski</author></item><item><title>Tau² benchmark: how a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/tau2-benchmark-improving-results-smaller-models/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/tau2-benchmark-improving-results-smaller-models/</guid><description>We expected small models to be fast, but our benchmarks revealed a common reliability trap. Here’s our deep dive on finding and fixing it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Przemysław Hejman</author></item><item><title>60-second Linux analysis - with Nix and LLMs</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/60s-linux-analysis-nix-llms/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/60s-linux-analysis-nix-llms/</guid><description>A one-line command to diagnose server health. Uses Nix to fetch tools without sudo and an LLM to summarize the output. No installation required.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Grabowski</author></item><item><title>Tau²: from LLM benchmark to blueprint for testing AI agents</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/tau2-from-llm-benchmark-to-blueprint-for-testing-ai-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/tau2-from-llm-benchmark-to-blueprint-for-testing-ai-agents/</guid><description>Deep dive into the Tau² benchmark that goes beyond LLM evaluation to reveal innovative methodologies for testing AI agentic systems in realistic scenarios. Learn how this framework can transform how we test AI-powered software.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Przemysław Hejman</author></item><item><title>Observability in Go: what real engineers are saying in 2025</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/observability-in-go-what-real-engineers-are-saying-in-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/observability-in-go-what-real-engineers-are-saying-in-2025/</guid><description>Learn how Go practitioners ship telemetry in 2025 – what works, what hurts, and the tools, workflows, and guardrails they rely on for metrics, traces, and logs.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Przemek Delewski</author></item><item><title>Sandboxing AI-generated code: why we moved from WebR to AWS Lambda</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/sandboxing-ai-generated-code-why-we-moved-from-webr-to-aws-lambda/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/sandboxing-ai-generated-code-why-we-moved-from-webr-to-aws-lambda/</guid><description>Why we moved our AI chart generator from in-browser WebR (WASM) to AWS Lambda. A case study on the real-world trade-offs of running AI-generated R and ggplot2 code.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał, Przemysław Hejman</author></item><item><title>Claude Code + OpenTelemetry + Grafana: a guide to tracking usage and limits</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/track-claude-code-usage-and-limits-with-grafana-cloud/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/track-claude-code-usage-and-limits-with-grafana-cloud/</guid><description>Learn to monitor Claude Code costs, tokens, and latency in 5 minutes using its native OpenTelemetry support with Grafana Cloud.</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Rafał Strzaliński</author></item><item><title>Which chart would you swipe right?</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/which-chart-would-you-swipe-right/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/which-chart-would-you-swipe-right/</guid><description>Same dating data, 5 different charts: do you prefer the academic journal, The Economist, a Redditor’s take, or creating your own with AI?</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał, Cezary Piwowarczyk</author></item><item><title>5 Grafana in Docker examples to get started with metrics, logs, and traces</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/5-grafana-docker-examples-to-get-started-with-metrics-logs-and-traces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/5-grafana-docker-examples-to-get-started-with-metrics-logs-and-traces/</guid><description>Learn how to spin up Grafana in Docker in 5 real-world examples - Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, Tempo traces, and Pyroscope profiling.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Przemysław Hejman</author></item><item><title>Building Grafana dashboards with AI, CLI, and a bit of pragmatism</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/building-grafana-dashboards-ai-cli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/building-grafana-dashboards-ai-cli/</guid><description>Discover a pragmatic approach to building Grafana dashboards more efficiently by combining the power of AI with the automation of a CLI workflow.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Piotr Migdał, Piotr Grabowski</author></item><item><title>How does the Data Council conference keep finding future billion-dollar companies?</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/how-does-the-data-council-conference-keep-finding-future-billion-dollar-companies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/how-does-the-data-council-conference-keep-finding-future-billion-dollar-companies/</guid><description>Data Council 2025 blended a unique Masonic temple venue with deep-tech talks. Discover insights from future billion-dollar companies before they make headlines.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jacek Migdal</author></item><item><title>Don’t let Apache Iceberg sink your analytics: practical limitations in 2025</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/apache-iceberg-practical-limitations-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/apache-iceberg-practical-limitations-2025/</guid><description>Apache Iceberg is a powerful open table format, but has practical limitations. Learn about its challenges with small data, metadata overhead, and real-time use cases.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jacek Migdal</author></item><item><title>Highlights from the Iceberg Summit 2025</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/highlights-iceberg-summit-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/highlights-iceberg-summit-2025/</guid><description>Key insights from Iceberg Summit 2025 on Apache Iceberg’s evolution, including Table Spec V3, PyIceberg, Go, and its central role in modern data lakehouses.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Przemek Delewski</author></item><item><title>February 2025 newsletter</title><link>https://quesma.com/blog/february-2025-newsletter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://quesma.com/blog/february-2025-newsletter/</guid><description>February’s tech roundup: ElasticON takeaways, Databricks’ $10 billion funding, and IBM’s DataStax buyout. 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