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Notes from the trenches on AI engineering, LLM apps, and the full-stack work that holds it all together.

Dario Amodei says AI trust will not come from marketing. Only real wins will.
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Dario Amodei says AI trust will not…

Anthropic's CEO made a rare X appearance to push back on critics who say his safety warnings backfired. His bet: medicine and biology results will move public opinion more than any PR campaign.

GLM-5.3 got 50% better at coding without changing the base model
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GLM-5.3 got 50% better at coding without…

Z.ai shipped GLM-5.3 on the same weights as GLM-5.2 and jumped from 4.6 to 28.3 on Terminal-Bench 3.0. The lesson for builders: post-training and harness fit beat another pre-training run.

Hermes /loop gives agents a heartbeat without cron jobs
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Hermes /loop gives agents a heartbeat without…

Nous Research shipped /loop so Hermes re-runs prompts on a timer inside your session, with backoff and real stop conditions. It is cron with memory, and it changes how you monitor long agent jobs.

How to choose an AI automation partner (without getting sold a logo swap)
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How to choose an AI automation partner…

A founder-facing buyer guide for hiring an AI or automation engineer. Build vs buy vs hire, red flags that separate tool resellers from builders, and the questions that expose a weak proposal before you wire money.

Inherent's Faraday beats frontier models at paper replication with a 27B orchestrator
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Inherent's Faraday beats frontier models at paper…

Faraday is a 27B agent trained with long-horizon RL to replicate research figures. Inherent reports it beats Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on its Replica benchmark by directing Codex as a tool.

OrcaRouter's abliterated Qwen3 27B is a red-team baseline, not a chatbot
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OrcaRouter's abliterated Qwen3 27B is a red-team…

Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-FP8 removes refusal directions via abliteration while keeping vision, tools, and 262K context. Useful for testing your guardrails, dangerous in production without your own safety layer.