Does your local model actually know new Python? A tactical guide
Small models can do real work on a 16 GB laptop, but they're convincing long before they're correct. Here's how to check what a local model really knows, with code …
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Ornith-1.5-9B: strong benchmarks, stale Python, and why that's fixable
Ornith-1.5-9B posts big agentic coding numbers and fits on a 16 GB laptop. It also barely knows Python 3.15. Here's what it is, how to run it, and how a …
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TIL: MLX is only a little faster than llama.cpp on my M1
This is part one, on an M1 with 16 GB of memory. In part two I'll run the exact same test on my 10-core M5 with 24 GB.
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Why I'm moving my agents from Metaflow to Prefect
I'm moving my agent orchestration off Metaflow and onto Prefect. If you read the notebook post last week, you already watched Prefect do the scheduling, so this probably isn't a …
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Picking an agent framework: PydanticAI, LangChain or Strands
I get asked which agent framework to use about once a week. I use PydanticAI. This post is how I got there, with a fair look at the two I …
