Writing
Essays and analysis, newest first.
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11 Claude Code Features Worth Using (and Gotchas to Know)
Claude Code has more settings than most of us ever touch. Here are the ones that change a working day, with the catch sitting next to each one.
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Mistral Large 4 License: Use It, Host It, or Pay?
Mistral Large 4 license read for a five-person startup: can you ship it, can you host the 1,061 GB weights, and is the API cheaper? My maths inside.
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PyTorch Upgrade Checklist: 2.15 Drops Python 3.10
A PyTorch upgrade checklist for 2.15: Python 3.10 and old NVIDIA GPUs lose their wheels, and macOS 14 loses MPS. What I checked and what to pin.
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MCP Skills: I Tried Them, and Verified Is Not Trusted
MCP skills ship in the official TypeScript SDK 2.4. I ran them, and a hostile server's prompt injection still came back verified: true. Here is why.
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Kimi K3.1 Pro: Anthropic SDK Guide, Open Weights Promised
Kimi K3.1 Pro: 3T-class, weights promised for Nov 4, not shipped. Price, hardware maths, reactions, and Anthropic SDK code that follows Moonshot's docs.
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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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Matt Pocock Skills: Every Skill Explained and How to Install
Matt Pocock skills explained: what all 27 plugin skills do, who can call each, how to install, what critics say, and how it compares to GSD and BMAD.
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Local Coding Agent: Can a 48 GB Mac Run Recursive Flint?
Recursive Flint is an Apache-2.0 coding model, 39.8B parameters with 2.5B active. Can a 48 GB Mac be your local coding agent? RAM math and a 1-hour test.
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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.