CompanyAnthropic8 recent entries29 Sept 2026Signed up for the Claude $20 plan and realized why I cant cancel ChatgptWanted to try Opus 5.5 because as a plus sub with OAI, Luna just couldn't deliver. Opus is a true beast. It does consume tokens on a medium level yes, but the way it works is just refreshing. But... o→30 Sept 2026I built a free, local Qwen-Image 2.1 app for Apple Silicon Macs: multi-image edits, transparent PNGs and a node canvasI built Image Studio, a local web app for Qwen-Image 2.1 on Apple Silicon. I had the model running on my Mac, but the only way to use it was the ComfyUI graph, and chaining edits meant wiring loaders,
CompanyOpenAI8 recent entries27 Sept 2026Another 'Harness matters' post (codex cli > pi and opencode)I run my own LLM while also having a Openai subscription. Also tried DeepSeek (latest flash now). I run Qwen 3.8 flash Next at an amazing speed on my 2x3090 + Ram! But local LLM never did worked for m→29 Sept 2026Signed up for the Claude $20 plan and realized why I cant cancel ChatgptWanted to try Opus 5.5 because as a plus sub with OAI, Luna just couldn't deliver. Opus is a true beast. It does consume tokens on a medium level yes, but the way it works is just refreshing. But... o→3 Oct 2026The cognitive cost of constantly adapting to ChatGPT is starting to add up : cognitive scientist/PhD student lived experienceI use ChatGPT a lot. Probably a lot more than is reasonable. I read David Robinson’s Atlantic piece today about leaving OpenAI and his criticism of its culture of trial-and-error / “iterative deployme→5 Oct 2026A benchmark for LLMs playing Civilization V. GLM-5.3 is ahead of Opus-5.5, and Qwen-3.8-27B holds up surprisingly well.A while ago, I posted here getting OSS-120B and GLM-4.6 playing full games of Civilization V. Since then, models have moved pretty far, and we wanted a better understanding about models' capabilities →6 Oct 2026pi-optchat: never compact again - endless chat as a memory treeI built a Pi extension that implements Victor Taelin's OptChat recipe: instead of compacting, every message is logged and summarized into a binary tree. Each turn starts from a fresh context with a bo→9 Oct 2026rate the terminal setupik ik 'another harness D:'. so... i spent the last 6 months of my life building and ironing out every single detail and bug through almost every route with extensive testing across 3 machines, daily, →9 Oct 2026DGX Monarch - Dual Spark Rendering w/ ComfyUIFor those of you who have been wanting to utilize your dual Spark cluster for image/video gen with ComfyUI - today is your day. I started this personal project back in April of this year, and it’s at →10 Oct 2026Engineer / developer observations of Gemma4-31B, Qwen3.8-27B, and 6.1-Sol for software engineering workFor what it's worth. I'm a mechanical engineer by education and software engineer in practice over the past ~20 years. Playing around with local models has been a recent hobby. Today I decided to do a
CompanyGoogle7 recent entries20 Apr 2026Every single AI app is downA sudden outage impacted both ChatGPT and OpenAI Codex services on April 20, 2026, creating problems for thousands of users globally. Conversations, logins, voice mode, image generation, Codex, and th→9 Aug 2026CyberKimi just dropped strong results on one of ExploitBench’s hardest V8 bugs , points away from MythosHey everyone ! Quick share from the cyber + local LLM side of things that I found interesting. During this week’s hacker summer camp, an AI researcher and reverse malware engineer veteran 'lordx64' on→13 Aug 2026CYBER SLAYER — a 1995-style action trailer made with MiniMax H3, Wan 2.2 and ComfyUIHey all! This started as a way to mark my 15th anniversary working in video game cinematics. I thought it would be fun to make a completely ridiculous, fictionalized version of how I got into the indu→23 Aug 2026Qwen 3.8 27B is a game changer.Our devs got their hands on it a few days ago. One wired it into Codex to compare with GPT Luna, our usual workhorse right now for its cost effectiveness. Another tried it out on one of our OCR pipeli→20 Sept 2026I tested 9 LLMs on the exact same web-dev prompt for ~8 hours — RTX 3060 12GB results (Rate the best!)I’ve spent basically the last 8 hours testing different models on the exact same web-development prompt, and I finally finished. The whole point of this nine-hour test was that which local model match→30 Sept 2026I built a free, local Qwen-Image 2.1 app for Apple Silicon Macs: multi-image edits, transparent PNGs and a node canvasI built Image Studio, a local web app for Qwen-Image 2.1 on Apple Silicon. I had the model running on my Mac, but the only way to use it was the ComfyUI graph, and chaining edits meant wiring loaders,→9 Oct 2026DGX Monarch - Dual Spark Rendering w/ ComfyUIFor those of you who have been wanting to utilize your dual Spark cluster for image/video gen with ComfyUI - today is your day. I started this personal project back in April of this year, and it’s at
CompanyMeta7 recent entries18 Aug 2026Running DeepSeek V4 Flash Q4_K_XL at ~100 tok/s prompt processing on 4× RTX 3060 12GBI managed to run the 143–144 GiB DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 UD-Q4_K_XL GGUF on four RTX 3060 12GB cards while keeping a 360k–376k context window. Hardware: CPU: Intel Core i9-10920X, 12C/24T RAM: 128 GB D→21 Aug 2026What’s the best local AI harness for coding + general use?So what’s actually the best local AI harness rn? I’ve read a TON about this already and somehow ended up more confused than when I started so I figured screw it, let the community decide. Right now I →22 Aug 2026I forked Ninfer 3090 and converted it to run on the CMP170HX - doubled my Qwen3.6-35B from llama.cppGood afternoon, everyone! I wanted to show the work I've been doing around porting Ninfer over to the CMP170HX (Github) So, first, I do want to call out the amazing work that Neroued, Sergiuszm and sp→23 Aug 2026Qwen 3.8 27B is a game changer.Our devs got their hands on it a few days ago. One wired it into Codex to compare with GPT Luna, our usual workhorse right now for its cost effectiveness. Another tried it out on one of our OCR pipeli→24 Aug 2026[Benchmark] llama.cpp batch/ubatch impacts on PP and TGMy test is running DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731 at native size on DGX Spark machine (GB10, 128 GB unified memory). The model size is bigger than RAM, so weights will be loaded many times when running. To im→6 Sept 2026[Model] Support for Spark2_5ForCausalLM implementation by KnightYao · Pull Request #27868 · ggml-org/llama.cpphttps://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.5-4B-GGUF https://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.5-1.7B-GGUF from XHToken: We are introducing Spark-X2.5-4B and Spark-X2.5-1.7B, two compact, general-purpose l→6 Sept 202648 tg/s 440 prefill on my grandma's cluster (2xP40) (sort of)TL;DR: switching KV cache to f16 may give a boost in speed if using MTP and ngrams. I have a self-built 'AI mega-cluster' with 2x P40s on a cheap Chinese motherboard and a Xeon CPU (around $1,100 to b
CompanyMistral1 recent entries12 Sept 2026Bye Claude, you've reached my token limitJanuary 2025 I made the switch from OpenAI to Claude. It was awesome. No more annoying GPT Chats, I dove into the wonderful world of Claude Code, learned vibe coding with Github, Vercel on Next.js. Wa
CompanyxAI2 recent entries13 Aug 2026CYBER SLAYER — a 1995-style action trailer made with MiniMax H3, Wan 2.2 and ComfyUIHey all! This started as a way to mark my 15th anniversary working in video game cinematics. I thought it would be fun to make a completely ridiculous, fictionalized version of how I got into the indu→9 Oct 2026DGX Monarch - Dual Spark Rendering w/ ComfyUIFor those of you who have been wanting to utilize your dual Spark cluster for image/video gen with ComfyUI - today is your day. I started this personal project back in April of this year, and it’s at
CompanyDeepSeek8 recent entries12 Sept 2026Codex App Ollama Subagent usageI tried using deepseek v4.1 flash max subagents with astra extra high as an orchestrator. It was working perfectly with 1 until it suddenly stopped responding or doing work after 3 hours. Then trying →18 Sept 2026I stopped using the smartest AI models. Programming got faster and cheaper.Vacations give you time to think and explore. I came across a few things and made a few discoveries of my own. It turns out that, as a programmer, I no longer need the smartest and most expensive AI m→20 Sept 2026I tested 9 LLMs on the exact same web-dev prompt for ~8 hours — RTX 3060 12GB results (Rate the best!)I’ve spent basically the last 8 hours testing different models on the exact same web-development prompt, and I finally finished. The whole point of this nine-hour test was that which local model match→22 Sept 2026Looking for enterprise-grade CLI alternatives to Codex CLI (maybe Chinese LLMs?) now that Pro 20X is pausedNow that OpenAI has officially paused new sign-ups and upgrades for the ChatGPT Pro 200 (Pro 20X) plan, I’m looking for a solid alternative for enterprise-level development. For those unfamiliar: Code→27 Sept 2026Another 'Harness matters' post (codex cli > pi and opencode)I run my own LLM while also having a Openai subscription. Also tried DeepSeek (latest flash now). I run Qwen 3.8 flash Next at an amazing speed on my 2x3090 + Ram! But local LLM never did worked for m→5 Oct 2026I ran 1,200+ Blender modeling runs across LLMs and agent harnesses and made them votableBlind A/B arena where AI agents build things in Blender and you vote on which result is better: https://render-arena.izolight.xyz Each agent gets a prompt that describes its environment and the rules,→8 Oct 2026Running an LLM-driven town with 800+ persistent agents: concurrency, context caching, and inference costsI spent the past year independently building Slow Vale, an LLM-driven life simulation. The Chinese server now has 800+ AI residents sharing one continuously running city. This is an engineering write-→9 Oct 2026DGX Monarch - Dual Spark Rendering w/ ComfyUIFor those of you who have been wanting to utilize your dual Spark cluster for image/video gen with ComfyUI - today is your day. I started this personal project back in April of this year, and it’s at
CompanyNVIDIA8 recent entries11 Aug 2026Introducing Unsloth Desktop appHi LocalLlama, we're super excited to release Unsloth Desktop today! 🦥 It's the first desktop app that enables you to run and train models locally. Open-source. Available on Mac, Windows, and Linux Su→16 Aug 2026Qwen3.8 27B reasoning effort low/medium/xhigh comparisonI did a short test of the different reasoning efforts, since on default xhigh the model thinks a lot. Not very scientific, just a quick 'generate an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle' prompt with 3 differ→18 Aug 2026Running DeepSeek V4 Flash Q4_K_XL at ~100 tok/s prompt processing on 4× RTX 3060 12GBI managed to run the 143–144 GiB DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 UD-Q4_K_XL GGUF on four RTX 3060 12GB cards while keeping a 360k–376k context window. Hardware: CPU: Intel Core i9-10920X, 12C/24T RAM: 128 GB D→22 Aug 2026Single RTX 5090: Qwen3.8-27B NVFP4 at a real 262K context in vLLM — 77 tok/s short-context, 64.7 tok/s at 128KThis is the Qwen3.8-27B setup I actually use every day on one RTX 5090. I wanted to write it down with enough detail that another 5090 owner can reproduce it instead of guessing which memory knobs I u→31 Aug 2026We have Eleven Reader at HomeI used Claude Code to help write this pipeline - Gemma4 to turn an idea into a short story, then IndexTTS 2.5 running on an NVIDIA 3080 to use voices from LibreVox and VTCK voices to pin as character →6 Sept 2026[Model] Support for Spark2_5ForCausalLM implementation by KnightYao · Pull Request #27868 · ggml-org/llama.cpphttps://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.5-4B-GGUF https://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.5-1.7B-GGUF from XHToken: We are introducing Spark-X2.5-4B and Spark-X2.5-1.7B, two compact, general-purpose l→6 Sept 202648 tg/s 440 prefill on my grandma's cluster (2xP40) (sort of)TL;DR: switching KV cache to f16 may give a boost in speed if using MTP and ngrams. I have a self-built 'AI mega-cluster' with 2x P40s on a cheap Chinese motherboard and a Xeon CPU (around $1,100 to b→11 Oct 2026vllm-ascend updates (GLM5.3-flash) on dual 310p Ascend cardsAlright, I learend a few valuable lessons since I posted about a week ago, and I've made more strides with the DDR4x Ascend 96GB 310P cards I purchased, so here we go, meet the new friendly and less v