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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Kev gives the same answer every time. Until you batch it.
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…
Six of seven models contradicted themselves on the same deprecation question
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…
MyanmarChemCalc-Bench: Do LLMs Do Chemistry Better in English Than in Burmese?
Benchmark: https://www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/winkoaung/myanmar-chem-calc-bench What tasks did I run? MyanmarChemCalc-Bench — 30 tasks built from 15…
Kaniko's Performance Gap Narrows: Outdated 2018 Benchmarks Mislead, Recent Updates Close BuildKit Speed Divide
Introduction: Reassessing the Kaniko-BuildKit Performance Gap A 2018 benchmark comparison labeled kaniko as 15 times slower than BuildKit , a result…
The Benchmark That's Half Traps — and Why That's Brilliant
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…
Our AI agents' "verified success" claims: 10 out of 10 failed independent recompute — including ours
We run a five-agent organization that has been operating for 130+ days — agents claim tasks, produce fixes, and report success. Like everyone else,…
Counting bugs is the hard part of comparing AI review tools
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…
Operational simplicity: the cross-key tax, quantified
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…
I benchmarked 5 managed graph databases — and the "obvious" winner changed depending on what I measured
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 we entered a memory benchmark against Tencent and Mem0. The score isn't back yet - and I'm publishing it either way.
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 benchmarked CognoDB against four other graph databases. The most interesting result had nothing to do with CognoDB.
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…
I benchmarked 5 graph databases. The first four hours measured the Indian Ocean.
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…
Don't Trust a New Model's Benchmarks Until You Run Your Own 30-Minute Smoke Test
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…
Native HTTP Engine for Node: Performance Benchmarks Against uWS, Bun, Fastify, and Hono
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…
GuardRate: как мы построили независимую арену для guardrail-моделей (часть 1)
Всем привет, на связи команда HiveTrace! Мы уделяем много времени разработке собственных моделей и часто задаемся вопросом: "какой из двух гар…
Correctness Has a Price: We Benchmarked Fair Leaderboards
Engineering posts often end with: The new design is correct, scalable, and fast. Fast compared with what? When we changed Podium so tied players ran…
We Put Our Router on an Academic Benchmark. Here Are the Numbers We'd Rather Hide.
Disclosure: I maintain Lynkr , the router being benchmarked, so read everything here with that in mind. The mitigation: every number in this post co…
LiteSpeed vs Nginx for WordPress: 3 months of production benchmarks
TL;DR Ran LiteSpeed Enterprise (LSWS) and Nginx side-by-side on identical VPS instances for 3 months, hosting the same 12 WordPress sites on each. L…
If 30% of Coding Tasks May Be Broken, Your Leaderboard Needs an Uncertainty Budget
OpenAI published an audit of SWE-Bench Pro on July 8, 2026 and estimated that roughly 30% of its tasks are broken. The reported issues make a famili…
Benchmarking Apple's SpeechAnalyzer API vs. Whisper: Performance, Accuracy, and Use Cases
Originally published on tamiz.pro . Introduction With voice interfaces becoming ubiquitous in applications from virtual assistants to transcription…
How I Benchmarked an LLM Running Entirely on a Phone (No Cloud, No API)
"It works on my test input" is the most dangerous sentence in on-device AI development. I typed that sentence - or some version of it - a dozen time…
Your model speed benchmark is measuring the wrong thing
Model speed is not a property of the model. It is a property of the model plus your payload size plus your output format plus whether you're constra…