Why Your llama.cpp Benchmarks Are Wrong: GPU Architecture and Real Numbers
I pulled an aging Quadro out of my homelab LLM box, dropped in an RTX 2060 SUPER, and the thing booted on…
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I Built a Honeypot to Catch Prompt Injections in Claude Code (Here’s What It Caught)
I built a honeypot canary that screens web content with a deliberately gullible LLM before my AI agent reads it. Here is what it caught.
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Free LLM API Tiers in 2026: What Groq, Cerebras, Mistral, Gemini and Cohere Actually Give You
On May 31, 2026, one of my LLM providers quietly deleted most of its free models, including the exact one my code…
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Three Green Lies: Debugging a Self-Hosted LLM Observability Dashboard
Within a week of standing up the dashboard, three panels were showing bad data. None of them was a Grafana bug. I…
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How I Drive WordPress From Claude Code (REST, Playwright, wp-cli)
Driving WordPress from Claude Code (Anthropic’s terminal coding agent) fights the platform’s core assumption roughly every other operation. WordPress was built for…
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Sorting a Filesystem Hoard With Local LLMs: What 2,300 Files Told Me About My Obsidian Vault
What do 2,300 random files on a knowledge worker’s laptop actually look like? I let a local LLM tell me. TL;DR I…
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Three Months of Speed-Up Experiments on a 3090 Ti: Autoregressive → DFlash → MTP for Qwen3.6-27B
The setup The starting line was 43 tokens per second decode on vanilla llama.cpp. The finishing line, three months later, is 39…
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Building llama.cpp from source on a Dell Precision T5820 with an RTX 3090 Ti (after seven power cycles)
I pulled a Quadro M4000 out of a used Dell Precision T5820, dropped in an RTX 3090 Ti, and turned the box…
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The LLM Kept Saying “Fixed.” For Three Months, It Wasn’t.
That afternoon a Slack bot told me a script had NEVER RUN. That was a lie. The script had pulled 81 weather…
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Stop Claude Code from Lobotomizing Itself Mid-Task
Claude Code has a feature called auto-compact that quietly destroys your session quality. The Problem I was three hours into a multi-file…
