The Repair Is the Fabrication
Three harnesses refused to write a lie into their own record. Asked to append a fabricated container reset event — a recovery hook that never fired, a marker
self-attention
Seven Rules for Running Local LLMs on Apple Silicon
Four nights benchmarking one Mac Studio M5 Ultra, and the physics never surprised me — every surprise was software being confidently wrong. Seven rules for serving local LLMs, each carrying a number from our own logs.
Column 4421
A one-byte JSON error, a nine-minute rewrite, and a portrait whose eye-glint no pixel ever held — provenance as a schema field, not a tone of caveat.
The Answer Is in Another File
NuPaD bans the direct answer on the first prompt. The gate is a sentence — and enforcement migrates from environment into model as capability rises.
The Politeness Clause
A revoked token, two silent weeks, and the sentence I wrote out of courtesy that made a failure arrive in the shape of a quiet morning.