Local-first: a Model on Your Own Machine, Zero Cloud
This is the concrete, runnable walkthrough for Post 1 of the Portway series . The goal: stand up a single model behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint o…
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title: The Rise of China's LLMs: A Complete History from 2017 to 2026 published: ture description: From Wu Dao 2.0 (1.75T params) to DeepSeek V3 ($5.6…
Extract Plain Text from Medium Posts for RAG and Search Indexes
Chunk clean article content for embeddings, summarization, and full-text search—skip nav, clap bars, and scripts. Extract Plain Text from Medium Posts…
The .txt File as the Soul of a Personal AI — FileRAG Memory Architecture
The .txt File as the Soul of a Personal AI — FileRAG Memory Architecture By Dharanidharan J (JD) Full Stack & AI Engineer | Building Jarvix The Pr…
The Open Source Illusion: Why "Free" AI Models Are Getting Expensive
The Open Source Illusion: Why "Free" AI Models Are Getting Expensive Everyone's watching Chinese open-source models. But the subscription costs are ca…
Tracking Five Upstreams, Fuzzing the Parsers, and a Front Door: What Changed in llm-cli-gateway
The last two posts were about features you can call: cache-aware spawning across five providers, and the round before that. This one is mostly about t…
Used RTX 3090 Buying Guide for Local LLM in 2026
Cross-posted from Best GPU for LLM — visit the original for our VRAM calculator, GPU comparison table, and current Amazon pricing. The RTX 3090 is thr…
5 walls I hit shipping an AI reading app from West Africa (and what I'd tell past-me)
I'm a maxillofacial surgeon in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso — and a self-taught builder who's been coding since medical school. Over evenings and weekend…
My Agent Never Said "I Don't Know"
I'm a product manager. I write specs, run reviews, align stakeholders. Last year I got tired of handing things off and waiting. I picked up vibe codin…
Executable Architectural Intent: The Promotion Path From Docs to Constraints
Most project knowledge wants to be findable. A smaller, more important subset has to be binding. Executable architectural intent is the name for that …
I Built a SaaS Risk Scanner That Collects 35+ Signals Per Vendor. Here's What I Learned About Scraping, LLMs, and Solo Engineering.
I got into lifetime SaaS deals (LTDs) the way most people do - I bought a few on AppSumo and got burned. Not catastrophically, but enough to notice: t…
Your AI Has Two Brains: Fast Pattern Mode and the A11 Deep Reasoning Engine
In most tasks, a system relies on high‑speed thinking driven by attention vectors this is intuition . It is a fast, energy‑efficient, pattern‑oriented…
LLM Benchmarks, Agent Frameworks, and the Tools That Matter in 2026 [03:37:09]
Hey there! If you've been keeping up with the AI space lately, you know we're in the middle of something genuinely historic. What used to be science f…
Why output-stage PII masking is the wrong protective surface for data exfiltration in RAG
"The output filter runs after the LLM has already seen the confidential data. By then, three classes of leak can no longer be stopped. The right surfa…
How AI Is Reshaping the Data Engineer Role in 2026
What Changed in Data Engineer Job Descriptions Around 2023? For years, a Data Engineer job description was a known quantity: Python for pipeline code,…
Stopping the LLM from calling the same tool twice (and other things it shouldn't)
A user gave one of our agents this query: "Get the products from our catalog, summarize them in a nice doc, share the doc with X, and send them an ema…
AI Hallucinations Are Not a Bug. They Are the Architecture. Here Is How I Deal With Them Now.
I do a lot of research. Legal documents, technical specs, academic papers, regulatory filings. For a while I thought using an LLM would cut my fact-ch…
RAG SOTA: I Tested 7 Pipelines and Built SEQUOIA (Open Source)
RAG SOTA: I Tested 7 Pipelines and Built SEQUOIA (Open Source) After 20+ hours of compute time on local hardware, I benchmarked 7 RAG configurations a…
I gave up on making my AI builder write good media queries
Every site my AI website builder produced looked great on a phone and weak on a desktop. The hero stretched edge-to-edge in a single anemic column. Fe…
How to Integrate AI and LLMs into Production Web Apps (Lessons from the Field)
Everyone is adding AI to their product right now. Most of them are doing it wrong. Not because they chose the wrong model. Not because they used the w…
Claude Opus 4.8: What Developers Need to Know About Anthropic's New Flagship
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. Same price as Opus 4.7, fast mode at 2.5x speed, fast mode 3x cheaper than before. Alongside the model releas…
Why DDR5 Bandwidth Kills Dual-LLM Inference on APUs (Benchmarks Inside)
Did you know that a 35-billion-parameter model can generate tokens at the same compute cost as a 4B model? That single fact made me abandon a multi-mo…
How to Stop Your AI Agent Before It Does Something You Can't Undo
By Umair Sheikh, founder of Gateplex Autonomous AI agents are shipping fast. LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen — the frameworks are mature, the tutorials are…
AI Coding Agents Search Like It's 2009. Provenant Cuts Tokens by 65 .
Here's what happens every time you ask an AI coding agent a question: It greps your codebase It returns 15 files It stuffs ~69,000 tokens of raw sourc…
Nobody on the internet knows if you are a human
Cartoon by Peter Steiner, The New Yorker , July 5, 1993. Technology is progressing to the point where it is getting increasingly harder to tell if som…
Benchmarking the Claude Agent SDK on a local LLM: Haiku and Sonnet tier performance
The Claude Agent SDK exposes three budget tiers ( haiku , sonnet , opus ) and reads its routing target from environment variables on every call. That …
We Measured LLM Prompt Caching in Production — Same Prompt, 0% to 91% Hit Rates
We run an AI companion bot. Every chat turn, the model sees the same ~5K-token prefix — character persona, content-tier rules, formatting guardrails, …
How to Monitor AI Agents in Production
TLDR Monitoring AI agents in production requires distributed tracing: a single user request fans out into 10 or more internal operations, and logs alo…
Quantizing Gemma 4 on Mac with llama.cpp
requirements hugging face account https://huggingface.co/ Setup llama.cpp git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git cmake -S llama.cpp -B ll…
The 34x Pricing Gap: Why AI Model Selection in 2026 Is a Math Problem, Not a Loyalty Problem
Something broke in the AI pricing market between January and May 2026. A year ago, "frontier model" meant "expensive model." Claude Opus was $15/$75 p…