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I Chased Four Benchmark Points and Almost Missed the Model That's Twice as Fast

I Chased Four Benchmark Points and Almost Missed the Model That's Twice as Fast

I finally got Qwen3.6 running locally, ran the dense flagship against the sparse MoE, and learned that four benchmark points are worth a lot less than 5x prefill.AISelf Hosting
On an EPC Job, 'Sure, No Problem' Is the Most Expensive Sentence Onsite. An Agent Would Have Checked the Contract First.

On an EPC Job, 'Sure, No Problem' Is the Most Expensive Sentence Onsite. An Agent Would Have Checked the Contract First.

A client asks your superintendent for a small favor. He says yes. Months later it's a claim nobody can reconstruct. The case for AI agents on EPC jobs.AIAgentsConstructionEPCProject Controls
I Spent a Saturday Trying to Replace My Local AI to Save on Tokens. The Server Voted No.

I Spent a Saturday Trying to Replace My Local AI to Save on Tokens. The Server Voted No.

Six hours, five models, one IPMI reboot, zero upgrades -- a field report on why the bleeding edge of local LLM hosting is mostly bleeding.AISelf Hosting
I Spent $5K on GPUs Just to Learn That One GPU Was Enough

I Spent $5K on GPUs Just to Learn That One GPU Was Enough

Four RTX 3090s, an EPYC server, and a 122B parameter model -- the journey from underwhelming to overkill and back to surprisingly elegant.AISelf Hosting
I Spent 22 Years Programming Just to Fail at Making a Skeleton Swing a Sword

I Spent 22 Years Programming Just to Fail at Making a Skeleton Swing a Sword

REST APIs to roguelikes: How I'm using a smaller game to learn the fundamentals before building my dream MMORPG. A honest indie gamedev journey.Game DevelopmentNuxt
Build First - Learn Later

Build First - Learn Later

Building an AI app with zero knowledge of AI, hitting deployment walls, and evolving architecture to meet real-world needs.AIWeb DevelopmentSide ProjectsNuxt
Building a Roguelike Game with Amazon Q

Building a Roguelike Game with Amazon Q

Using Amazon's AI coding assistant, Q, to build a browser-based roguelike with Nuxt.js — the potential and the limits of AI-assisted development.AIGame DevelopmentNuxt