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  1. Episode · Sep 22, 2026

    Local Laya vs Hosted Jev: Why My Agents Make Typed Decisions on My Mac (opens the original)

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    You ask a chat model a yes-or-no question and get back three paragraphs. Then your code has to parse the paragraphs, guess what it meant, and hope the JSON is valid this time. I got tired of that for the small, bounded choices my agents make all day. Here's the model I picked, the one I didn't, and the replay numbers behind the decision. This is my account of one deployment. Whether Laya beats Jev in general is a different question, and I didn't test it. The setup A coding agent makes dozens of

  2. Episode · Sep 17, 2026

    Can a Subscription Fund a Coding-Model Study? 648 Episodes, $0 API (opens the original)

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    You’ve got a Claude Max plan , a ChatGPT Pro plan , and a Mac Studio with a local model. (Mac Studio specs: M3 Ultra with 256 GBs memory) You’d like to run a real benchmark across all three, but the API estimate for a proper study came back much too expensive. So I routed the whole thing through the subscriptions. It mostly worked. The part that didn’t is the useful part. The Setup This is the follow-up to my GVS5H pilot. GVS5H is a research project claiming that a manager-and-worker scaffold le

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