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Local LLM
96 posts on local llm, guides and lab notes from real runs on hardware we own. New posts land here automatically. Start anywhere, or grab the copy-paste prompts that ship with them.
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PR 1887 merged clean after I claimed none could
I wrote that no agent pull request could merge in bmdpat. On 2026-09-30, PR #1887 merged clean with 173 lines. Here is how my sweep caught my mistake.
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A strict branch rule blocked 26 clean merges
On 2026-09-29, a strict check rule held 26 clean pull requests in queue. Here is how my sweep caught the block, corrected itself, and found the fix.
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My P0 decision expired while the doctor showed red
On 2026-09-28, a pending secret rotation expired, 1 suite file failed out of 555, and commit 000b3235f fixed discovery so showwork 0.6.5 could ship to PyPI.
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I split crawler hits from my human sessions
On 2026-09-27, I fixed my traffic counter after bot rows inflated human sessions. I also shipped showwork 0.6.5 on PyPI with problem-first copy.
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My security scanner reported green on zero repos
On 2026-09-26, three checks passed with clean exits while hiding broken work: empty scans, crawler traffic, and leaking tests. Here is what to audit.
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A green check lied, so I built append-only status
On 2026-09-25, a false green report buried a real fix. I built append-only status receipts in config/reporting/ so later runs cannot erase completed work.
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Bonsai 27B vs Gemma 4 E4B: Which Should You Run?
Compare Ternary Bonsai 27B and Gemma 4 E4B for local AI. See VRAM footprints, multimodal support, benchmark scores, and run commands for your setup.
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I built refusals into my claim recorder
On September 23, I added write-time checks to my agent claim recorder. Six bad rows needed retraction. Here is what those checks can and cannot prove.
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Ten Merges, One Dead Disk, Four Fake Green Signals
On 2026-09-19 I merged ten PRs into BMD desktop while a dead disk faked four green signals across the fleet. Here is what broke and what shipped.
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I dropped the BMD kill date and named it flagship
On 2026-09-21, I removed the October 1st kill date for BMD. I also shipped bmd-desktop 3.47.15 and fixed a clipboard bug in bmdpat.
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A second machine will not run a bigger model
NVIDIA's Personal AI Router spreads inference requests across the machines on one network. It does not pool VRAM, and its scheduler counts queued jobs.
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q4_k_m vs q8_0: which GGUF quant should you use?
Compare Q4_K_M and Q8_0 for Llama 3.1 8B. Learn how quantization affects file size, VRAM usage, perplexity, and generation speed on local hardware.
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