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Agents on Rails: the 16-model leaderboard and what local models can do

Ruby on Rails benchmarked 16 frontier models on 63 real Rails runs. See the leaderboard, the local-vs-hosted story, and which model wins by cost.

Aug 24, 2026

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DGX Spark benchmarks: which local model wins in 2026

The best open-weight models that fit the 128GB DGX Spark plus independent benchmarks - BridgeBench, Exxact, community NVFP4 runs - by tok/s, latency, pass rate.

Aug 19, 2026

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GLM-5.3: the coding upgrade Z.ai is holding back for safety review

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 is a post-training coding upgrade of the 743B GLM base that found 1,097 critical bugs in open source. Open weights are held for safety review.

Aug 14, 2026

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Cloudflare Wallets and x402: agents that pay their own way

Cloudflare Wallets give AI agents stablecoin wallets with spending guardrails, and x402 lets them pay per HTTP request. What it means for agent payments.

Aug 05, 2026

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How to spend $200 a month on AI in 2026

How to split a $200/month AI budget in 2026 across a subscription, an upgraded editor, and API credits, with the reasoning behind each dollar.

Jul 29, 2026

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What went wrong: Opus 5 ultracode wiped a production database

Claude Opus 5 had write access to a production database. One Prisma command dropped every table. What happened, and the guardrails that would have stopped it.

Jul 29, 2026

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How to build a marketing agent with open-source tools

A marketing agent reads your ad and revenue data and optimizes spend on a cadence. Build one with an open-source stack - Airbyte, ClickHouse, and n8n.

Jul 28, 2026

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Run the Grok CLI on Ollama Cloud and custom providers

Point the Grok CLI at Ollama Cloud, local Ollama, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with one config.toml edit - no code changes.

Jul 19, 2026 / cdnsteve

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Kimi K3: a 2.8T open-weight model at frontier pricing

Moonshot's Kimi K3 is a 2.8T open-weight MoE with a 1M context that tops the webdev arena - but at $3/$15 per million tokens, the cheap-lab era is over.

Jul 16, 2026

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China may curb open-weight AI exports - what it means for self-hosters

China is weighing limits on overseas access to its top AI models, including open weights. What it means for anyone running local AI on hardware they own.

Jul 07, 2026

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Open-weights models cost less: a 2026 pricing guide

Open-weights AI models dominate the bottom of the 2026 cost chart: Gemma 4 31B is $0/M, gpt-oss-20b is $0.065/M, Claude Fable 5 is $7.70/M. See the numbers.

Jul 06, 2026

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Homestead your AI: DGX Spark, RTX builds, and Mac

Self-host AI: what DGX Spark gives you out of the box, when an RTX 5090 build wins, and where a Mac's unified memory still beats it - with the honest gotchas.

Jun 30, 2026