Engineering blog

Notes from the routing layer

Platform updates, engineering deep-dives, and honest numbers.

2026-07-16

Boring Security, On Purpose

The best security news is no news. A quick note on a routine hardening pass across the platform — tighter access, a smaller network surface, defense-in-depth at the API, and automated daily monitoring.

2026-07-15

The Send Button Was Below the Fold: Making Nyquest Work on Phones

On a phone, the chat composer rendered off-screen and the conversation drawer was unreachable. The postmortem: one in-flow banner above eleven 100vh themes, one CSS sizing rule wearing three costumes, and a hamburger a stylesheet loading order had silently deleted.

2026-07-12

Removing the Latency Tax on Long Conversations

Condensing conversation history used to add about a second to every turn of a long chat - on exactly the conversations where compression saves the most. Measured in production, it is now ~15ms on warmed turns, roughly 70x faster, with token savings unchanged.

2026-07-11

A Week of Compression Engineering: Where We Were, Where We Are

Seven engine releases in seven days, all driven by measurement: grounded traffic covered, a savings curve that compounds with conversation length (15% at 7 messages to 75%), the loop's first self-driven fix, and provider-side caching on top.

2026-07-10

Teaching Our Compression Engine to Know When It's Wrong

We built a shadow-eval loop that judges our own compression against uncompressed baselines. It found where compression hurts answers on day one - code and numbers - and the fix makes them untouchable.

2026-07-09

We Won Best Tech at Demo Night. Here Is What the Judges Saw.

Nyquest won Best Tech at the FAU x The AI Collective Demo Night. The three features that carried the four minutes: the Splicer (multi-model consensus), the compression engine, and the AutoRouter.

2026-07-01

The AutoRouter Learns: How Nyquest Picks the Best Model for Your Kind of Work

Per-domain quality scorecards, recency-weighted grading, and bandit-math exploration — the routing brain now learns from every judged answer.