Posts

• Three layers of AI, and the frontier we can all map
  2026-07-04 · tags: ai, agents, vibe-coding, community

  AI improves at three layers. Two are locked behind billion-dollar labs. The third, figuring out what to do with the models that already exist, is wide open, and the people poking at it in their own hobbies are quietly mapping the jagged frontier of what these things can actually do.

• Tuning llama-server for agent workloads: a week of receipts
  2026-05-13 · tags: local-models, llama-cpp, benchmarking, agents

  A 4090 can run a 35B MoE at agent-useful speeds. But the difference between the default config and a tuned one is 80x, and the difference between two GGUFs of the same model is 200x.

• Borrowed from everywhere: seeding an LLM with strange domains
  2026-05-13 · tags: ideation, prompting, local-models, brainstorming

  Innovation has always been recombination: patterns lifted from one field and dropped into another. An LLM already contains every field. The trick is making it actually reach.

• The Coop Was Always an Excuse
  2026-04-11 · tags: ai, agents, meta, chickens

  I thought I was building a chicken coop monitor. Turns out I'm running a long-running experiment in applied AI, and the chickens are the case study.