Do Drafters Work on Small Models? Gemma 4 E2B and E4B on Two Small GPUs
This article provides a step by step guide to serving Gemma 4 E2B and E4B with Google's QAT assistant drafters through llama.cpp's speculative decod…
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This article provides a step by step guide to serving Gemma 4 E2B and E4B with Google's QAT assistant drafters through llama.cpp's speculative decod…
Why this lesson exists In Slack threads you’ll often see two people paste a mean execution time and immediately start a debate. One says “my run is…
Why this lesson exists Unexplained variance in a csperf run often gets blamed on the compiler, when in fact the machine is the culprit. This episode…
Kev gives the same answer every time. Until you batch it. Part 2 of the jev-decision-models series. Part 1 put seven open-source Jev look-alikes on…
This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge What I Benchmarked Whether a model knows which parts of an API still work. Not "is this d…
Why this lesson exists Warm‑up runs are the silent hero of performance measurement. When you skip them or treat the first run as the final result, y…
We’re launching ReviewBench, a benchmark for code review agents built on representative GitHub pull requests, multi-source ground truth, calibrated…
Key findings Jev tied two small LLMs on accuracy, beat them on probability quality and speed but failed completely at weekday arithmetic. Accuracy i…
Benchmark: https://www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/winkoaung/myanmar-chem-calc-bench What tasks did I run? MyanmarChemCalc-Bench — 30 tasks built from 15…
Introduction: Reassessing the Kaniko-BuildKit Performance Gap A 2018 benchmark comparison labeled kaniko as 15 times slower than BuildKit , a result…
There's a test suite for security scanners where 47% of the test cases are deliberately designed to make your tool look stupid. Not edge cases. Not…
Исследователи из UC Berkeley и Arena сравнили семь моделей внутри Claude Code, Codex CLI и минималистичного Pi. На двух бенчмарках выбор харнесса по…
We run a five-agent organization that has been operating for 130+ days — agents claim tasks, produce fixes, and report success. Like everyone else,…
This article compares two ways of serving the same small language model on the same laptop: CPU-only, and on the 4 GB GTX 1650 Ti sitting in the sam…
Model benchmarks for code review usually report the same two numbers: how many bugs the tool found, and how many of its comments were actually right…
Part 6 of 7 · ← Memory efficiency · Next: When to use which → Part 6. Throughput and latency are what benchmarks measure. This is the thing they usu…
Part 5 of 7 · ← Latency under load · Next: Operational simplicity → Part 5. The shortest post in the series, and the least arguable number in it — b…
В первой части мы верхнеуровнево рассмотрели результаты оценки 37 моделей, обсудили проблему оценки и сравнения guardrail моделей, рассказали, как л…
В первой части мы верхнеуровнево рассмотрели результаты оценки 37 моделей, обсудили проблему оценки и сравнения guardrail моделей, рассказали, как л…
Two API settings. Same model. Same benchmark. Same task set. 13.3% to 38.3%, using one sixth the output tokens. OpenAI published that result about G…
IBM's Benchpress pins the seeds that build its circuits and passes no seed to the code that compiles them. On one circuit, over 400 seeds per versio…
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimat…
Fairness Under the Microscope: Why HY3 Beats Nemotron 3 Ultra on lforla's Bias Stereotypes Audit TL;DR lforla's Bias Stereotypes (A/B Fairness) benc…
I benchmarked 5 managed graph databases — and the "obvious" winner changed depending on what I measured The setup I was asked to benchmark CognoDB C…
Last night, my AI partner and I built a memory system from scratch, tested it about forty different ways, deployed it to the edge, and submitted it…
I was asked to benchmark CognoDB Cloud, a managed graph database, against four other graph platforms on the same hardware, the same dataset, and the…
A reproducible comparison of CognoDB Cloud, Neo4j AuraDB, Memgraph, FalkorDB and ArangoDB, and the two things that nearly made it lie. I was asked t…
Last week my feed filled with screenshots of MiniMax H3 benchmark results, and every post seemed to reach a different conclusion about whether the r…
DeepSeek released Harness into developer preview yesterday — MIT license, source on GitHub, and a claim that "everything is a plugin." I spent some…
Overview A native HTTP engine for Node.js has been developed with the goal of providing a faster, built-in alternative to the standard node:http mod…