Ian L. Paterson
Practitioner notes on AI agents, cybersecurity, and building public companies in Canada.
Ian’s personal blog.
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How I Track Claude, Codex, and Gemini Quotas from One Script
Updated May 30: added what I learned wiring these three together, plus the budget thresholds that now trigger automation. (If you’re trying to decide which model to switch to when…
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Inference Arbitrage: How I Route 200+ Daily LLM Calls Across Five Models
Inference arbitrage means routing each AI task to the cheapest model that can handle it at acceptable quality, instead of sending everything to the most expensive one. No benchmark tells…
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LLM Benchmark Rankings 2026: 15 Models Tested on 38 Real Coding Tasks
Most LLM benchmarks measure raw intelligence. Real deployment decisions also depend on latency, format reliability, and data boundaries, including when a task should stay on-prem instead of going to a…
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LM Studio Errors on Apple Silicon: Prompt Truncation, Jinja Failures, and Crash Fixes
I spent about two weeks of evenings getting Qwen3-Coder-30B running reliably on a Mac Studio (M1 Max, 32GB) through LM Studio and OpenClaw. Along the way I hit every error…
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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
CDL is worth it, with conditions. If you are a deep tech founder who needs rapid access to experienced operators and investors in Canada, Creative Destruction Labs is probably the…
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How I Met 54 Angel Investors in a New City With Zero Network (The Exact Method)
The Problem With Conventional Fundraising Advice The standard advice (warm intros, pitch events, accelerators) assumes you already have a network in the right city with the right people in it.…
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Victoria BC Tech Salaries in 2026: What Developers, PMs, and Designers Actually Earn
I’ve been hiring tech talent in Victoria since before the pandemic, first at a series of companies and now as CEO of Plurilock. The question I get most from candidates…