One night the free server logged an incident that resolved before my alarm went off. The next morning the free model that summarizes those logs handed me a root cause that matched nothing in the raw lines. That mismatch kicked off a 48-hour experiment in how far I could trust a cheap summarizer with a limited attention span. The short version: the model wasn't lying, and it wasn't hallucinating in the usual sense. It was only ever seeing the tail of the story, and the longer my pipeline ran, ...