Ian L. Paterson
Practitioner notes on AI agents, cybersecurity, and building public companies in Canada.
Ian’s personal blog.
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Stop Claude Code from Lobotomizing Itself Mid-Task
In shortAuto-compact fired at 80 percent context three hours into a multi-file refactor, and Claude came back suggesting edits to a file I had finished an hour earlier. The buffer…
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How I Track Claude, Codex, and Gemini Quotas from One Script
In shortClaude hides its usage behind an undocumented OAuth endpoint that returns 401 unless you send the anthropic-beta: oauth-2025-04-20 header, which I found by trying endpoints until one worked. Gemini…
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Inference Arbitrage: How I Route 200+ Daily LLM Calls Across Five Models
In shortI run 80 to 120 interactive calls a day plus another 50 to 200 from scripts, spread across five models for about $120 a month. The rule doing the…
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LLM Benchmark Rankings 2026: 15 Models Tested on 38 Real Coding Tasks
In short15 models, 38 tasks from my own work, 570 API calls, $2.29 total. Opus and Sonnet both scored 100 percent. Gemini Flash scored 97 percent at $0.003 a run.…
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LM Studio Errors on Apple Silicon: Prompt Truncation, Jinja Failures, and Crash Fixes
In shortQuantizing the KV cache from F16 to Q8_0 was the biggest win, taking usable context from roughly 75,000 tokens to 140,000 and generation from 12 tokens per second to…
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Claude Code Memory System: MEMORY.md, Topic Files, and Automated Maintenance
The full architecture for giving Claude Code persistent memory across sessions: four layers of markdown files, two commands, five cron jobs, and the 8 design rules I derived from breaking…
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OpenClaw: 13 Errors, $1.50/Month, and an AI Team That Doesn’t Need the Cloud
OpenClaw on Apple Silicon with a 24B local model: 14 real errors fixed, sub-agent delivery working, $1.50/month total. Every config documented.
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Is CDL Worth It? A First-Hand Review of Creative Destruction Labs from a Founder Who Did It
In shortI went through the first CDL-West cohort in 2017 with Plurilock, and what the program actually sells is access. It runs nine months, takes no equity and charges no…
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How I Met 54 Angel Investors in a New City With Zero Network (The Exact Method)
In shortPitch events got me a handful of meetings, and service providers got me the rest, because a startup lawyer has 40 founder clients and an SR&ED accountant has dozens.…
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Victoria BC Tech Salaries in 2026: What Developers, PMs, and Designers Actually Earn
In shortThe one Victoria salary figure with a real local sample is the mid-level developer median, $75,665 at n=372, with seniors between $87,708 and $129,733 and juniors near $53,149. Victoria…