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I share learnings, experience and ramblings on modern AI developments. The posts are issued as concepts where a local LLM agent then performs further analysis and research for a comprehensive review of the initial thought.
Modular diagram of the DeepSeek Harness plugin architecture: agent loop, model, tools, sandbox, and session log as swappable hexagon modules

DeepSeek Harness: The Agent Runtime Where Everything Is a Plugin

DeepSeek Harness hit 195K stars in two weeks. It’s less a coding agent than the machinery a coding agent gets assembled from: everything is a plugin, built on Cordis, with append-only session logs and subagents that can delegate to competitors. What’s real, what still hurts.

August 25, 2026 · 10 min · 1958 words · Marco
Diagram of the MiniMax H3 three-stage pipeline: context understanding, base generation at 768p, and in-context regeneration to 2K

MiniMax H3: The Open-Weight Video Model That Follows Complex Prompts

MiniMax H3’s real differentiator is instruction following: a 32B Qwen3-VL text encoder, a structured prompt system with shot lists and soundscapes, and 25-second ComfyUI generations. Full breakdown with official demo clips.

August 11, 2026 · 11 min · 2277 words · Marco
A watercolor Art Deco style illustration of a traveler on a cliff gazing at towering clouds, generated with Krea 2

Krea 2 Is the Open-Weights Image Model Worth Running Locally

Krea 2’s K2 Raw and K2 Turbo open-weights release puts a top-10 Artificial Analysis model on consumer GPUs for free. Specs, local ComfyUI setup, Civitai community samples, and what the team said in their AMA.

June 29, 2026 · 8 min · 1557 words · Marco
Canada's AI for All strategy — six pillars visual

Canada's AI for All Strategy: A $200B Bet on Sovereign AI

Canada’s AI for All strategy aims to transform the country from an AI innovator with a 12% business adoption rate to a sovereign AI leader targeting 60% adoption by 2034, unlocking $200B in GDP gains, creating 250,000+ jobs, and building sovereign compute infrastructure anchored by a world-leading supercomputer.

June 4, 2026 · 18 min · 3683 words · Marco

Hermes Agent Is Taking Off: A Plain-English Setup Guide

Hermes Agent is gaining attention because it remembers, runs from messaging apps, uses tools, creates reusable skills, and can be self-hosted. This guide explains the rise in plain English and how to approach setup safely.

May 26, 2026 · 10 min · 1980 words · Marco
Editorial illustration of Claude Mythos as a glass AI security model surrounded by software infrastructure, zero-day defense signals, and Project Glasswing coordination.

Claude Mythos and the AI Cybersecurity Threshold

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing show how frontier AI is shifting cybersecurity from human-limited audits toward AI-scale vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching.

May 21, 2026 · 9 min · 1858 words · Marco
Speculative decoding pipeline showing draft, verify, and commit stages for local LLM inference

Speculative Decoding Is Finally Useful for Local LLMs

Speculative decoding has moved from inference-paper trivia into the local LLM hot path. The useful version now includes ngram speculation, native MTP heads, DFlash-style drafting, and TurboQuant / TCQ KV compression, with early llama.cpp forks showing both real speedups and real rough edges.

May 7, 2026 · 16 min · 3279 words · Marco
Editorial illustration of an AI memory architecture with folders, graphs, vectors, and timelines

Agent Memory Systems in 2026: What Actually Matters

Agent memory is no longer one feature. It has split into several design camps: raw recall, profile memory, context filesystems, reflective memory, coding-agent memory, and enterprise context APIs. This guide maps the trade-offs, the real architectures, and the hype gap.

April 16, 2026 · 19 min · 4028 words · Marco
Editorial illustration of quantum circuits colliding with crypto wallet security and elliptic-curve cryptography.

Quantum Codebreaking Just Got Closer, What It Means for Crypto Wallets and Mining

A new Google Quantum AI paper, plus a closely watched neutral-atom estimate discussed by Justin Drake, has shifted the crypto security conversation from vague quantum doom to concrete attack windows, qubit counts, and wallet exposure models.

April 8, 2026 · 10 min · 2119 words · Marco
Editorial visualization of open-source voice cloning systems, audio waveforms, model tradeoffs, and deployment constraints.

The Best Open-Source Alternatives to ElevenLabs for TTS and Voice Cloning in 2026

Open-source TTS has gotten dramatically better, but replacing ElevenLabs is still not one simple yes-or-no question. The real answer depends on whether you care most about cloning quality, commercial licensing, multilingual support, low latency, or tiny local deployment.

April 6, 2026 · 15 min · 3193 words · Marco