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I Went Looking for the Best Local LLM for Coding in 2026.

In February 2025 I wrote a guide on running DeepSeek R1 locally, then quietly stopped using it within two weeks. Qwen 3.6 made me try…

Why I Am Anxiously Waiting For the Mac mini M5 to Build My Local AI Box: The Math Behind It

The mini was absent at WWDC in June. The M5 silicon shipped already. Heres the spreadsheet I created before I decided to put my wallet away…

Apple Just Raised Mac and iPad Prices by Up to $300. The Real Story Has Nothing to Do With Apple.

I have been watching the price of DDR5 memory climb for the better part of a year, the way some people watch the price of coffee or…

The Backend Skills That Still Matter When AI Writes Half Your Code

After ten years and a lot of 3am pages, these are the things the autocomplete still can’t do for you

I kept building LLM apps that worked in demos and broke in production.

After a year of building LLM-powered tools, I finally understood why context is the only architecture decision that actually matters

Apple Put Its AI on Linux and Made It Free. I Spent the Weekend Finding the Catch.

The line that got me out of my chair was buried halfway through a WWDC session transcript: Apple’s Foundation Models framework now has a…

Claude Fable 5 Turned a Two-Month Migration Into a Day’s Work. You Have Two Weeks to Try It.

Anthropic’s first Mythos-class model for the rest of us, read through a developer’s eyes.

Claude Has a Hidden “Thinking Space” It Built by Itself. Anthropic Just Learned to Read It.

Stop Building One AI Assistant. Build a Team of Them.

A few months ago I wrote a piece about running three coding agents at once and how it made me slower, not faster. I stand by that. Three…

Everyone Says Graphify Cut Their AI Coding Bill 70x.

Open any developer feed right now and you will trip over the same headline in five different fonts. Someone cut their Claude Code token…