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11 Apr
Benchmark Shadows Study: Data Alignment Limits LLM Generalization

<blockquote> <p>A controlled study finds that data distribution, not just volume, dictates LLM capability. Benchmark-aligned training inflates scores but creates narrow, brittle

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20 Oct
Your Laptop Is Not the Server: An Environment Parity FAQ for Free-Tier Boxes

<p>My build passed on my laptop. It died on a free server in 40 seconds.</p> <p>Same code. Same lockfile. Same commit hash. So what changed?</p> <p>The answer is boring and

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19 May
AI Agents in Production: Why They Fail Silently and How to Catch It

<p>Your agent passed all the tests. It's been running in production for three weeks. And it has been quietly wrong the entire time.</p> <p>This is not a hypothetical. Galileo's

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16 Apr
How to Keep Your Codebase From Rotting When AI Writes Most of It

<p>Snap just announced that AI agents generate over 65% of their new code. The same week, they laid off roughly 1,000 employees — 16% of their workforce. CEO Evan Spiegel shared

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4 Oct
Qwen3.8 27B | 1 x R9700: 262K context, half a million tokens of reusable cache, ~180 tok/s. And yes, let's talk about the "3-bit" :)

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wxfdt9/qwen38_27b_1_x_r9700_262k_context_half_a_million/"> <img alt="Qwen3.8 27B | 1 x R9700: 262K context,

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10 May
We tried vectors, ASTs, and brute-force context stuffing for code retrieval. Graphs with LLM-generated semantics worked best. Here's what we learned.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>We spent the last year building a code indexing system and tried pretty much every retrieval approach along the way. Sharing what actually worked

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9 May
ToolOps: Stop Rewriting the Same Boilerplate Every Time You Build an AI Agent

<p>You've built the demo. It works. The LLM responds, the tools fire, the output looks great.</p> <p>Then you push it to production — and everything breaks.</p> <p>API calls fail

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12 May
We Tested 10 Untested LLMs on Agent Coding — The Results Are In

<h1> We Tested 10 Untested LLMs on Agent Coding — The Results Are In </h1> <p>Yesterday I promised to benchmark 10 LLMs that have never been tested on real agent coding tasks. I

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