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 »
Ambient computing, work that happens around you instead of in front of you, is no longer hypothetical. The pieces ship today. Here is what the new shape of working with computers actually looks like.
The Era of Hunched-Over-A-Screen Computing Is Ending. Here’s What’s Replacing It Read Post »
Most small practices use cloud AI on patient text. Under HIPAA that requires a Business Associate Agreement most practices have not signed. On-device AI fixes the compliance posture entirely.
Attorney-client privilege + third-party AI processors = a vendor-risk problem most firms havent addressed. Heres what on-device AI looks like for small and solo firms.
If Your Law Firm Is Using Cloud AI on Client Files, You Probably Have a Problem Read Post »
Anthropic is testing removing Claude Code from the Pro tier. Cloud AI pricing is drifting up. Heres the free local setup that runs Claude Code on your Mac with zero subscription.
Cloud AI Coding Costs Keep Climbing: How to Pay $0 and Still Use Claude Code Read Post »
A free iPhone app that recognizes 601 objects fully offline at 10 FPS. What it took to bridge the gap from the standard 80-class COCO model.
This Is What a Robot Can See Now: 601 Objects, Live, Offline, on Your iPhone Read Post »
