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Open Weights
4 posts on open weights, 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.
- 6 min read
My local models refused zero of 50 security tasks
Hosted coding assistants have declined defensive security work. I ran 50 such tasks across five local models on my own hardware and counted zero refusals.
- 6 min read
LM Studio Bionic: The Local Open-Model Agent, Explained (2026)
Is LM Studio Bionic worth a look? It runs code projects on a local folder with GLM 5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code, local voice via Voxtral, and is free with local models. What shipped, and what it changes.
- 6 min read
Incident response needs a local model you already trust
Hugging Face ran its breach forensics on an open-weight model on its own hardware because hosted APIs refused the requests. Here is the lesson for builders.
- 5 min read
Your local LLM is not a worse Claude. It is a different tool.
Stop scoring your local model on how close it gets to Opus. It is a different tool with a different sweet spot. Here is the line, and which side your work sits on.
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