benchmarks
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Goose Programming Language: AI Wrote It, I Tried It
The Goose programming language has no GC and no lifetimes, and an AI wrote its compiler from a human design. I tried it for an hour. What to trust.
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DeepInfer Inference Engine: What DeepSeek Left Out
The DeepInfer inference engine is DeepSeek's open-source Apache-2.0 serving code. What the README gives you, what it leaves out, and what I would steal.
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Deslop Model: Training AI Tics Out of Qwen3-4B
The deslop model, qwen3-4b-deslop, is a free Apache-2.0 fine-tune that drops em dashes and "not X, but Y". How it was built and what its score hides.
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I Rewrote the Test Until My Writing Passed It
Five commits in four days, every one adjusting the grader that judges this blog's drafts, every one triggered by a verdict I disagreed with. Finance has been making that mistake with real money since the seventies.
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Shortcut scored 5.9, Claude scored 5.5, both failed
A reader asked which spreadsheet agent to buy. The honest answer is a 0.4-point gap on a 10-point test where both tools landed under 60%, plus a $996 annual price difference nobody benchmarked.