AI development
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MCP Skills: I Tried Them, and Verified Is Not Trusted
MCP skills ship in the official TypeScript SDK 2.4. I ran them, and a hostile server's prompt injection still came back verified: true. Here is why.
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Goose Programming Language: AI Wrote It, I Tried It
The Goose programming language has no GC and no lifetimes, and an AI wrote its compiler from a human design. I tried it for an hour. What to trust.
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Matt Pocock Skills: Every Skill Explained and How to Install
Matt Pocock skills explained: what all 27 plugin skills do, who can call each, how to install, what critics say, and how it compares to GSD and BMAD.
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Local Coding Agent: Can a 48 GB Mac Run Recursive Flint?
Recursive Flint is an Apache-2.0 coding model, 39.8B parameters with 2.5B active. Can a 48 GB Mac be your local coding agent? RAM math and a 1-hour test.
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DeepInfer Inference Engine: What DeepSeek Left Out
The DeepInfer inference engine is DeepSeek's open-source Apache-2.0 serving code. What the README gives you, what it leaves out, and what I would steal.
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Deslop Model: Training AI Tics Out of Qwen3-4B
The deslop model, qwen3-4b-deslop, is a free Apache-2.0 fine-tune that drops em dashes and "not X, but Y". How it was built and what its score hides.
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ESP32 iPhone Agent: A $7 Board That Gives AI Hands
ESP32 iPhone Agent lets a vision model tap a real iPhone through a $7 board. I ran its tests and did the token maths for one 20-step task.
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Talorys: What a Free AI Agent Gets From 10,000 Neurons
Talorys is an MIT-licensed free AI agent that runs in your Cloudflare account. I did the Neuron maths to see how many chat turns a day it really buys.
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Cactus Whistle: 17 MB Speech-to-Text, Tested in French
I ran Cactus Whistle, a 16.9 MB open speech-to-text model, on Québec French, accented English and noise. Here is what it got wrong.
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Is Vibe Coding’s $12B Market Built on Broken Foundations?
Usage is exploding. Trust is not. 92% of US developers use AI coding tools daily. 41% of global code is now AI-generated. The market is already being sized…