Agent Swarms Are Great for Local AI
Single-stream vibecoding makes a local LLM rig look like an expensive Chromebook. Agent swarms flip the tokenomics — and suddenly the box under the desk pays for itself.
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The End of Consumer AI Winter
For a couple of years it looked like AI had left consumers behind — the good models lived in someone else's datacenter and you rented access by the token. That era is quietly ending, and the thaw is showing up under desks, not in datacenters.
If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
Anthropic's Claude Fable policy turns coding assistants into non-neutral infrastructure for product companies.
My Local LLM Rig (draft)
The hardware and software stack behind training and serving open-weights models from my home office — 2x 3090s, 256GB of non-ECC RAM, and a Threadripper that's older than it should be.
Claude Code is a Footgun
How agentic coding tools can build impressive features while making your codebase incomprehensible.
Alignment Makes AI Less Human
A base model trained on my text history showed me relationship patterns that therapy couldn't.
I Built a Geocoder for AI Agents Because I Couldn't Afford Google Maps
The VC-backed startups got Google Cloud credits. I got Photon, OpenStreetMap, and open weights embedding models. The scraps turned out to be enough.
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI
How Microsoft's AI strategy turned brilliant engineers against the technology they should be building.
Visualizing bsdiff: The Delta Compression Algorithm Used by macOS and Google Chrome
An interactive exploration of the bsdiff binary diff algorithm used for software updates in macOS and Chrome.