Requirements gathering was insurance against expensive rework. Rework is cheap now, so I stopped buying it and let the requirements arrive as the decisions get smaller.
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Read moreSpatial perception for language models is an open problem. My answer for Emil is a 48×35 text matrix, ray-marched from the world every turn — with a live view of the real thing.
Read moreSwapping the base model under my Minecraft NPC: three configuration mistakes worth 2.5x, a container that crash-looped 23 GiB nine times, and a context-window constant denominated in a unit that changes size when the model does.
Read moreThree checkpoints died because the chat template emptied every think block. The fourth, built to fix exactly that, learned to write 'Next: mine_block.' instead of thinking. The fifth was the fourth again.
Read moreWhy 'context doesn't fit' has to be recoverable state, and the six-stage ladder in my agent runtime that guarantees it.
Read moreFive papers, one design, one honest A/B: what speculative tool execution buys a 30B model on desk-sized hardware — and what it doesn't. Yet.
Read moreDebugging a fine-tuned agent with an agent in the loop: a wrong hypothesis, a fake 100%, and a train/serve mismatch found in the timestamps.
Read moreNo scripted policies, no behavior trees. A 30B model, a Rust body, a memory, and a data flywheel on one desk-sized machine.
Read moreThere's a trap that some developers fall into that nobody warns you about.
Read moreImplementing next-auth in a nextjs project using an external api with jwt token authentication
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