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• 2026-10-19

  Citations Are Not Evidence: Auditing What a RAG Answer Actually Claims

  A bracketed [1] tells you where to look, not what you will find. How to check, claim by claim, whether a cited passage supports a generated answer.

• 2026-03-07

  MiniMax M2.5: When Frontier Intelligence Gets Cheap Enough to Leave Running All Night

• 2026-03-05

  Which Local LLMs Can Actually Use Tools?

  I ran a 15-test tool-calling benchmark against every local model on my Ryzen AI Max+ 395. The results were not what I expected.

• 2026-03-05

  Which Local LLM Is Fastest on Ryzen AI Max+ 395? I Benchmarked 10 of Them

  Real prefill and generation speeds for 10 local LLMs on Strix Halo — and the winner surprised me.

• 2026-03-04

  Distilling Claude: What Happens When You Train a Local Model on Opus Reasoning

  Community fine-tunes are capturing Claude's Chain-of-Thought patterns and baking them into 27B local models. Here's what that means.

• 2026-03-01

  I Tested 10 AI Models So You Don't Have To

  A weekend spent benchmarking every promising local AI model on consumer hardware. Here's what actually works.

• 2026-02-23

  GPT-OSS 120B: First Benchmarks on Consumer AMD Hardware

  Real benchmarks of OpenAI's open-weight 120B MoE model running on a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB unified memory. No cloud, no A100s, just bare metal.

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