14h ago · 12 min read · Which of the new open-ish frontier models has the best chance to stand up against closed-source models on both cost and quality? I ran Ship-Bench against Kimi K2.6, Qwen 3.6 Plus, and DeepSeek v4 Pro
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3d ago · 16 min read · A practical May 2026 breakdown of STT, TTS, voice agent platforms, latency budgets, and cost trade-offs for production LLM voice systems. Voice agents finally feel like an engineering problem, not a r
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5d ago · 3 min read · What I Tested I gave 5 models the same 10 coding tasks — not LeetCode, not trivia. Tasks an autonomous agent actually does: parse a JSON config, find large files with a shell one-liner, fix a buggy merge function, write a concurrent HTTP fetcher. The...
Join discussion5d ago · 3 min read · We run StemSplit — a hosted stem-separation service — and we needed an honest, public, reproducible way to benchmark the models we use against the state of the art. So we built one and open-sourced it. stem-separation-benchmark-2026 is now live on Hu...
Join discussionApr 29 · 3 min read · The M5 Max MacBook Pro with 128 GB of unified memory is the first laptop that can hold a frontier-class coding agent entirely in RAM. No GPU rack. No cloud. No subscription. I just ran HumanEval on it. Wi-Fi off the entire run. 81.7% pass@1 on the f...
Join discussionApr 26 · 9 min read · Every developer launching a new project asks the same question: how much server do I actually need? The cloud providers offer servers starting at $4-6/month, but their marketing pages show theoretical bandwidth limits and CPU benchmarks that tell you...
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