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Dev.to · Rob
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
How We Got Here: Building the Test Harness Behind the Local Agent Bakeoff
The results already shipped. This is the part that took longer: forking an open-source Home Assistant benchmark, extending it into calendar, portfolio, and codi

Dev.to · Rob
🌐 Frontend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
115 Days In: One Afternoon of Admin Panel Improvements, End to End
115 days after building this blog from a cabana in Cabo, I spent one afternoon — 2:54 PM to 6:23 PM, back to back — running a chain of admin panel improvements:

Dev.to · Rob
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Auditing the Surface We Added Since the Last Audit
The May audit closed clean. Since then we shipped an MCP server, a Slack integration, and a shareable-snippet image generator -- three new pieces of attack surf

Dev.to · Rob
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Has This Blog Been a Waste of Time? (I Made My Coding Agent Investigate)
A challenge to a coding agent: prove whether months of homegrown test harnesses and bakeoff scripts were reinventing wheels that already exist. A survey of what

Dev.to · Rob
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Model Showdown Round 9: Qwen 3.6 27B vs Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B vs Qwythos-9B vs GLM-4.7-Flash vs Nemotron-3-Nano
I put Qwen 3.6 27B, Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B, Qwythos-9B, GLM-4.7-Flash, and Nemotron-3-Nano through the same real coding task on my homelab RTX 5090. Along the way I h

Dev.to · Rob
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
TurboQuant, Four Months Later: Chasing Google's 6x VRAM Claim Into the Wild
Back in Q1 I read a headline about Google cutting AI memory use 6x and filed it under "watch and revisit." Four months later, Google still hasn't shipped offici

Dev.to · Rob
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Thursday Thoughts: Why Anthropic Is the Next AWS, but Potentially Worse
Anthropic and AWS are both, underneath everything else, infrastructure providers renting out specialized compute. But the sharper parallel is behavioral — both

Dev.to · Rob
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
ComfyUI, Lemonade, and LocalAI: Scouting the Next Wave of Homelab AI Tools
A gloomy Cape Cod afternoon post-July 4th turns into a deep dive on ComfyUI, Lemonade Server, and LocalAI — plus llama-benchy and AMD's AI Playbooks — and the c

Dev.to · Rob
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
GLM Is the New Hotness, So Let's Test It On the Homelab
GLM is suddenly everywhere in developer conversations. Before we run the bakeoff, we need to answer two questions: what is GLM, and is it suitable for a single

Dev.to · Rob
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Thursday Thoughts: Every Intern Is a Builder Now
A finance intern is spending her summer observing business processes and vibe coding automation tools. Not a CS major. Not shadowing someone. Building something

Dev.to · Rob
💻 AI-Assisted Coding
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Vibe Coding Has Entered the Enterprise, and Governance Is Next
Vibe coding has moved from hobbyist curiosity to enterprise rollout across knowledge workers, and the next wave of AI adoption will be defined by governance and

Dev.to · Rob
💻 AI-Assisted Coding
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Five ways your AI coding agent wastes tokens (and how to fix each one)
Almost all of your AI coding agent's token waste comes from five mechanical leaks — cache misses, context bloat, idle MCP servers, oversized models, and an unwa

Dev.to · Rob
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Can You Tell When an LLM API Swaps in a Cheaper Model?
Providers have every reason to serve a smaller or more quantized model under load. I ran the experiment to see if you can catch it from the outside. The obvious

Dev.to · Rob
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Frontier Bakeoff: We Benchmarked Fable 5 Hours Before the Shutdown
Four frontier models, ten tasks, one government shutdown. We ran Claude Fable 5 through the homelab benchmark harness three hours before Anthropic pulled the pl

Dev.to · Rob
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Homelab Bakeoff: OpenClaw Outperforms Hermes… With Hermes Models
Two Discord bots, one 14B model, five fitness-tracker tasks. Both agents failed on the first try. Getting them working required debugging context overflow, sile

Dev.to · Rob
💰 FinTech & AI for Finance Professionals
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Keep the Credit Ledger Off-Chain. Checkpoint It On-Chain.
I specced an on-chain credit ledger for a compute network and the token program refused to initialize the mint. That rejection sent me back to the design. The l

Dev.to · Rob
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Friday Fixes: Housekeeping the Homelab and Hub
A model refresh on the homelab (Qwen 3.6, new embeddings, 469 llama.cpp builds), a feature sprint on the vacation planning site (calendar sync, expense tracking

Dev.to · Rob
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Forking and Open Sourcing a Single Purpose Site
I built a trip planning site for my F1 Montreal group. Then I ripped out every hardcoded value, added a setup wizard, ran a security audit, and open-sourced it.

Dev.to · Rob
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Thursday Thoughts: The Models We Can't Run
Every week or two, a model drops that makes the local AI community lose its collective mind. This...

Dev.to · Rob
💻 AI-Assisted Coding
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Model Showdown Round 4: Opus vs Qwen — Writers, Not Coders
Two models. Same prompt. Same five fodder files. Same 27 published posts to check for redundancy....

Dev.to · Rob
💻 AI-Assisted Coding
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Model Showdown Round 3: Ditching Ollama in Favor of llama.cpp
In Round 1, we ran five local models and two cloud models through a single coding task. The local...

Dev.to · Rob
💻 AI-Assisted Coding
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Slaying the Gemma Beast: How We Fixed Local AI and Shipped Search
Two days ago, Gemma 4 couldn't finish a feature. Today it built one, pushed it to GitHub, and it's...

Dev.to · Rob
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Your AI Strategy Has a Blind Spot: An SEO and AEO Audit of vibescoder.dev
A deep audit of vibescoder.dev revealed that Cloudflare was silently blocking every major AI crawler — even after we'd explicitly turned that setting off. Here'

Dev.to · Rob
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
The Agentic Gap: Claude Oneshots, Gemma Fails
Two days ago, Gemma 4 topped our local model benchmark — 167 tokens per second, perfect code quality...
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