Running Chinese LLMs at Scale: A Cloud Architect's Notes I want to talk about something I've been wrestling with on real production workloads: the four Chinese model families — DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM — and how they actually behave when you wire them into a multi-region pipeline serving thousands of requests per second. I've spent the last several months routing traffic across all four thro…

The obsession with centralizing heavy compute on backend servers is a massive bottleneck for both cost and latency. In 2026, as more applications move to the edge, developers are realizing that the user's browser is an incredibly powerful, untapped compute engine. Recently, I challenged myself to build a free live chess game analyzer for my developer utility suite, CipherKit. The traditional arch…

AI Agents Are the Best Thing to Happen to Network Administration Since SDN A single API key, an AI agent, and a router behind a double-NAT in Southeast Asia. What happened next changed how I think about network management. I manage UniFi routers spread throughout the ASEAN region — some for friends, some for relatives, one for a charity. They're in different cities, different ISPs, different leve…

TL;DR: Pest PHP can test the structure of your code, not just its behavior. Write your team rules as architecture tests and CI enforces them on every commit. One such test caught a multi-tenant data leak that a human review had missed. We had a rule. Every model holding tenant-specific data must use our BelongsToTenant trait. That trait adds the global scope that keeps one clinic from seeing anot…

Microsoft Agent Framework is built for production multi-agent systems, which is exactly why its LLM bill can grow faster than expected. If you are running workflows with retries, handoffs, tools, and checkpoints, the easiest savings do not come from prompting harder — they come from adding a gateway layer under the framework. I built Lynkr, so obvious founder disclosure: this article uses Lynkr a…

Verbose is a small experimental language I'm building. Its compiler proves properties about your code — like termination — and emits tiny, readable x86-64 machine code: no runtime, no GC, no libc. This post stands on its own (you don't need the rest of the series). What it's about: I'm now writing a Verbose compiler in Verbose itself , and this is the foundation brick — how you represent a progra…

Ask Claude this, today, with no setup: "What did user 4421 do in our app yesterday?" You will get an answer. It will be confident, specific, and completely made up. Claude has no access to your production database. So it does what a language model does when it has no facts: it pattern-matches what an answer should look like and hands you fiction in a calm voice. That is the whole problem. Not tha…

Tribal knowledge is two different things wearing one name. The half everyone panics about losing was declared in your Terraform, your Dockerfiles, and your CI config the whole time. It usually starts with a calendar invite that has no agenda. Thirty minutes, your senior platform engineer, no subject line. You half know before you sit down. They have been here six years. They are leaving in a mont…

The Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) model is both Magento's greatest strength and its most persistent performance bottleneck. It gives you unlimited flexibility to add product attributes without schema changes, but that flexibility comes at a cost — every product load can spawn dozens of JOIN operations across multiple tables. If your category pages load slowly, your product detail pages feel sluggi…

It’s so full of nutrients that it tops the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of powerhouse vegetables. But this superfood is also surprisingly versatile Watercress is among the oldest known plants consumed by humans, and claims for its medicinal powers are almost as ancient. Hippocrates grew it near his hospital for medicinal purposes; Pliny the Elder favoured it as a remedy fo…

As he opens a career-spanning show in London, the Turner prize-winning artist gives us a private view of his giant studio and talks censorship, controversy and why disobedience is central to making great art In Anish Kapoor’s 3,100 sq metre studio complex in south London, photographers, assistants and gallery representatives gather in an upstairs meeting room. The artist has a staff of 23 in Lond…

Telehealth companies offer lifestyle support so people taking obesity drugs can have the most success losing weight. But employers also want the telehealth providers to limit spending on the drugs.

Most AI governance systems check approval once. Then they assume the agent is still authorised to act. That assumption fails silently. Policy changes. Delegation revokes. Evidence expires. Yet the agent continues executing under a stale authority context. I built Nanogate – a software‑only gate that re‑tests admissibility before every action, in ~530 nanoseconds. It answers the question that most…

Meta: Learn how to eliminate LLM hallucinations in career coaching apps using Agentic Workflows and RAG, as seen in the architecture of CVChatly. The Problem: LLMs often hallucinate career advice or fabricate resume details when they lack specific context. The Solution: Implementing a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline combined with an Agentic Workflow (Plan-Execute-Verify). The Tech S…

Germany has no Companies House Unlike the UK's free official API, German company data is fragmented across regional courts and published through the Handelsregister and Unternehmensregister — built for humans, not machines. Developers face session-bound forms, strict rate limits, and messy HTML instead of structured data. The 2024 eGbR update that broke legacy pipelines In early 2024 Germany intr…

News tidbits from here and there, or here/there, and/or there/here, as the case may be. Major Turing computing award goes to quantum science for first time - Nature March 18 " This is the first time that the Turing Award has recognized work related to quantum physics. Bennett and Brassard — partly through joint work — began to investigate the power of phenomena that could go beyond what’s possibl…

Here's the link to the publication. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/l ... /26702.htm The tl;dr version is: it's copyright theft plain and simple. The question I have though, where does that leave us with algorithms for frequency trading, research and so on in the quant world? Statistics: Posted by jasonbell — March 6th, 2026, 12:06 pm — Replies 1 — Views 45

How old tools improve the work of new (non)humans. I noticed this pattern while working through a series of backend cleanup tasks in pylint , flake8 , and mypy : some warnings that I wanted to dismiss as housekeeping kept turning out to be the shortest path to hidden contracts in the code. As a rule, they looked like small cleanup tasks: naming style, function signatures, module size. But once I …

BoxAgnts' tool system, from WASM sandbox instruction-level isolation to the Tool trait's unified abstraction to the Provider layer's multi-model adaptation, has supported the secure execution and invocation of individual tools. But a complete Agent system requires three additional capabilities: knowledge reuse (how to ensure consistency when the AI faces repetitive tasks), task decomposition (how…

The Problem Every AI API gateway I tried added an invisible margin. OpenRouter, the biggest player, quietly marks up every model. You pay more than the provider charges, and you don't even know how much. The Solution I built aipossword.cn — an open-source AI API gateway with zero markup pricing. 18 models across DeepSeek, Claude, Qwen Zero markup — you pay exactly what providers charge One endpoi…