8 posts on SDAD Writes.
I ran the first head-to-head of the two open "System One" decision models, Laya and Jev, on 751 byte-identical inputs: same states, same questions, same seed, question hashes verified before comparing. Jev wins most suites for $0.008. Laya wins where it counts for a free model. A fourth column with Qwen 1.5B under constrained decoding completed the picture.
IFM released six foundation models from 0.9B to 375B, plus roughly 21.5TB of the actual training datasets, all Apache 2.0. I verified the dataset sizes and benchmarked the three small models myself: the 0.9B does real reasoning at 19 tokens per second in 2.2GB of VRAM. Here is what shipped, what is still missing, and where the catches are.
Two developments are breaking NVIDIA's CUDA monopoly: the Vulkan compute backend for llama.cpp (cross-vendor LLM inference on any GPU) and the Mojo programming language (a CUDA alternative that compiles to any accelerator).
Cloudflare Workers AI serves 50+ models from its edge network with 10,000 free Neurons a day. Since July 2026 the frontier coding models need the $5/mo Paid plan, but the free tier still covers real daily coding through OpenCode. What is free, what moved to Paid, and how I wire it up.
How Heretic removes refusal behavior from open-weight LLMs: my evaluation philosophy, Optuna TPE search learnings, the ARA next-generation ablation, why single constant vectors fail on MoE models, and what publishing 34 abliterated models taught me about attention-versus-MLP placement across Qwen and Gemma families.
Why about 1B parameters is the sweet spot for agent swarms: MiniCPM5-1B and six rival small models profiled from roughly 200 t/s on a $0.01/hr T4 down to 5 t/s on a Raspberry Pi 5, with the swarm economics at 1K, 100K, and 10M agents per day.
No cluster, no budget, no PhD — just a MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM, a gaming PC, and every free GPU I could find. How I abliterated 38 models (97k+ downloads), rebranded the entire collection, and ended up decensoring models I trained myself.
SENTRY - an on-call incident responder that runs on TrueForge. It triages over MCP, correlates in a Daytona sandbox, and stops at a human Allow/Deny gate before any rollback. What TrueFoundry handled, what we wrote, and what broke along the way.
