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// The Log

Brian, unfiltered.

Opinions, teardowns, what we're chewing on, and the occasional argument with the industry. The Lab is where the measured work goes — that's next door. This is where I say what I think.

Long Read25 Jul 20268 min

Anatomy of an AI Fear Segment

A good argument about open-weight economics, and the exact moment it turns into something else. Four tells that a technical explainer has stopped reasoning and started steering — plus a five-step checklist you can reuse on any AI threat seg

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Long Read08 Jul 20269 min

Two Years to the Taste of the Stew

The honest arc — from fighting Windows to a fleet of local models that finally feel real. The MCP tool-use moment, a memory layer a frontier model graded A− (and told us exactly where we're still behind), the month local inference got

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