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Every Week a New Model Is "Cheaper and Better" — Here's the 30-Minute Harness That Settles It

Every Week a New Model Is "Cheaper and Better" — Here's the 30-Minute Harness That Settles It

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The New Technical Debt

The New Technical Debt

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It's Almost Like You Need an Actual Programmer

It's Almost Like You Need an Actual Programmer

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Evals as Guardrails

Evals as Guardrails

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A Zero-Cost Pre-Merge Gate for AI-Generated Changes: Fixtures, Diff Tests, and a Throwaway Server

A Zero-Cost Pre-Merge Gate for AI-Generated Changes: Fixtures, Diff Tests, and a Throwaway Server

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Testing APIs without a cloud account: a local-first workflow

Testing APIs without a cloud account: a local-first workflow

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Why BEAM Is a Good Memory Benchmark for AI Agents

Why BEAM Is a Good Memory Benchmark for AI Agents

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Stop Asking Coding Models to Write Code. Test Whether They Can Review a Patch

Stop Asking Coding Models to Write Code. Test Whether They Can Review a Patch

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A Readiness Contract for Free Model Endpoints in CI

A Readiness Contract for Free Model Endpoints in CI

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From Six Questions to a Script: My 30-Minute Eval Harness for Every New Model Release

From Six Questions to a Script: My 30-Minute Eval Harness for Every New Model Release

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Dev Log: 2026-08-12 — a 96s suite that became 42s, a capability that wasn't a scope, and four steps to a passkey

Dev Log: 2026-08-12 — a 96s suite that became 42s, a capability that wasn't a scope, and four steps to a passkey

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A Lower Price Tag Is Not a Migration Plan: Quarantining New Models Before They Touch Your Agent

A Lower Price Tag Is Not a Migration Plan: Quarantining New Models Before They Touch Your Agent

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Comparing AI Coding Models Without Burning Budget: A Reproducible Harness on Free Compute

Comparing AI Coding Models Without Burning Budget: A Reproducible Harness on Free Compute

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A New Cheap Model Dropped This Week. Here's the Harness I Run Before I Switch Anything

A New Cheap Model Dropped This Week. Here's the Harness I Run Before I Switch Anything

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The Umlauts Were Fine, the Word Length Wasn't: A Pseudo-Localization Bug Hunt

The Umlauts Were Fine, the Word Length Wasn't: A Pseudo-Localization Bug Hunt

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