Frontier cloud LLMs log your prompts. For privileged content — NDAs, medical records, source protection — that’s a deal-breaker. Open weights on Apple Silicon are the only honest answer, and there’s real, sustained demand from firms that nobody is talking about.
Why I Quantize Open-Weight Models for Macs — And Why Your Law Firm Should Care Read Post »
I’m not a neuroscientist. But I pooled 504,571 single-cell measurements from four research groups and ran the meta-analysis. AGTR1+ dopamine neurons are depleted in every Parkinson’s cohort, combined p < 10^-100. The receptor is targetable by FDA-approved blood-pressure drugs.
504,571 Brain Cells, 4 Labs, One Hypothesis: A Citizen Pass at Parkinson’s Read Post »
I converted Babsie’s BF16 abliterated Hermes-4-14B to MLX 4-bit so Mac developers don’t have to wait. 7 GB on disk, runs on a 16 GB Mac, drop-in for any mlx-lm or claude-code-local workflow.
Hermes-4-14B Abliterated, MLX 4-bit — Apple Silicon Just Got Another Real Model Read Post »
A federal judge ruled documents prepared via public AI lose attorney-client privilege. A second court the same month preserved work-product for internal AI use. Here is what the split actually means, with cited sources.
The Heppner Ruling, Warner v. Gilbarco, and What Confidential AI Actually Has to Mean Read Post »
Antirez (the Redis guy) shipped ds4, a hand-tuned C inference engine for DeepSeek V4 Flash. Same prompt, three engines, one MacBook. Local DeepSeek beat cloud Claude on wall-clock time.
I Just Watched One Hacker Catch Up to a Trillion-Dollar Data Center Read Post »
Qwen 3 Coder 30B (8-bit MLX) scored 81.7% pass@1 on HumanEval running on a single M5 Max MacBook with the Wi-Fi off. Real run, all 164 problems, 14 minutes wall-clock. The first published number for this variant on this hardware.
HumanEval on a MacBook — 81.7% pass@1, Wi-Fi off Read Post »
M5 Max with 128GB unified memory: the first laptop that holds a frontier-class coding agent in RAM. 30B Qwen 3 Coder, 55 tok/s, Wi-Fi off, $0/month. What it actually unlocks for legal, medical, code, and agent work.
M5 Max + 128GB = a 30B AI Coding Agent Running Locally. Wi-Fi Off. Read Post »
Over three weeks I burned $2,976 of API-equivalent Claude usage. I paid $100. Why Anthropic is subsidizing power users 40x — and what I built on the side.
Pulling 10x My Subscription Value Out of Claude — While Quietly Building the Backup Plan Read Post »
Glossary for the post-Rectangle era. The Rectangle, Off-Screen Work, Hand-Off Computing, To Airgap, The Two-Slab Posture, Backpack Supercomputer, The Ambient Stack, To Whisper-Code, The Cloned-Voice Loop, Hot-Tub Coding, Local-First AI.
A Field Guide to Ambient Computing — The Words for the Thing That’s Coming Read Post »
Hands-free coding sessions where Apples on-device speech engine listens and a cloned-voice TTS replies. Two-second loop, fully on-device, qualitatively different from screen-and-keyboard.
What It’s Actually Like to Code By Voice — With the AI Replying In My Own Cloned Voice Read Post »
