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Long-form technical deep dives, hands-on labs, and builder workbooks. The stuff that doesn't fit in a weekly briefing.

Deep Dive · Standalone Feature May 2026
Five Rounds, Six Models, One RTX 5090
A five-round local-vs-frontier bake-off on a single workstation. Four open-weight 30B-class models plus Codex and Claude. The 'coding model' came last on three rounds, and fastest on the only test that mirrors real software work.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature May 2026
Faster Than We Can Patch
AI made vulnerability discovery cheap enough to break the disclosure-and-patch system that fixes software. At the same time, the developer workstation became the enterprise's softest target. A look at Project Glasswing, the TeamPCP GitHub breach, and what builders should actually change.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature Apr 2026
What 'Open' Actually Means: Abliterating Gemma 4 in 24 Minutes
A hands-on experiment running Heretic against Gemma 4 E4B-it within 48 hours of release. Results, methodology, what it means for builders deploying open models, and why runtime safety just became non-optional.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature Mar 2026
NVIDIA Just Put a Cage Around the Lobster
NVIDIA launched NemoClaw at GTC 2026 — an open-source security and deployment stack for OpenClaw agents. Here's what it actually does, why it matters, and what builders should do about it right now.
Lab 3 · Advanced Mar 2026
Lab: Ship Your First Secure AI Agent with NemoClaw
Hands-on lab: deploy a sandboxed OpenClaw agent with NemoClaw on WSL2, macOS, or Linux. Includes the workaround for the GPU sandbox bug and the first confirmed GPU passthrough on WSL2.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature Mar 2026
I Let an AI Do ML Research While I Slept
We gave an AI agent a laptop GPU, a training script, and a set of research instructions written in English. Then we went to sleep. It ran 127 experiments overnight, and its biggest breakthrough broke every rule in the ML textbook.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature Feb 2026
The Agent Identity Crisis
Your AI agents don't have IDs. In 6 months, that's illegal. The compliance cliff, the protocol identity gap, and the biggest builder opportunity in the agentic stack.
Deep Dive · Companion to Issue #001 Feb 2026
The Protocol War That Isn't: MCP vs A2A
The two protocols that will run every AI agent by 2027. Full breakdown, comparison table, honest cons, hype scorecard, and a 3-lab hands-on workbook with runnable code.
Lab 3 · Advanced Feb 2026
Dual-Agent Architecture: Structured Work Channels
The lab that separates builders from bloggers. Structured JSON between agents, natural language only for humans. 83% token savings. Full code included.

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