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How engineers use AI, how to do it well, and what it means for your job. Written for people who ship and run the software, not people who build models.

458 articles · Updated Nov 13, 2026
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AI Models & Industry ·

What Is the Agent Control Plane and Who Will Own It?

Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle and OpenAI are opening products to each other. Here is what the agent control plane is and why enterprise vendors want it.

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Local AI ·

Shared On-Prem AI Box vs Cloud APIs: When Does It Win?

When does one shared on-prem GB300 workstation beat cloud APIs or a Spark per person? Privacy, token costs, model policy control, and scaling.

on-prem AI vs cloud APIshared local AI server teamprivate LLM hosting
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Local AI ·

How Accurate Is Phonon 2? 5.21% WER in a 164MB ASR Model

Phonon 2 averages 5.21% WER on Open ASR leaderboard English sets in 164MB, 15x smaller than Parakeet. See where it holds up and where it fails.

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AI Models & Industry ·

Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 vs Fable 5.1: Which Claude Model?

Haiku, Sonnet, Opus and Fable compared on cost, speed and task fit, plus when Fable 5.1 is worth paying for and how the /advisor command helps.

Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5Fable 5.1which Claude model
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Local AI ·

How to Run Phonon 2 Locally on CPU for Speech Recognition

Run Fermion Research's 164 MB Phonon 2 ASR model on CPU only. Install steps, CPU timings, the OpenAI-compatible server, accuracy numbers and license notes.

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Local AI ·

How to Run Surya OCR 2.5 Locally on CPU or GPU

Install Surya OCR 2.5 with pip, launch the Streamlit GUI, and run it on CPU or about 1.8 GB of VRAM. Covers backends, output formats, speed, and limits.

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Local AI ·

How Accurate Is Surya OCR 2.5? Tested on Real Documents

Surya OCR 2.5 tested on invoices, handwriting, an 1883 newspaper, LaTeX, Hindi, Arabic, Urdu and Yoruba. See where it works and where it fails.

Surya OCR 2.5 reviewOCR model testhandwriting OCR accuracy
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AI Coding Tools ·

How to Install and Use Google's EGM Plugin (Elephant Goldfish)

Google's EGM plugin has an agent write a design doc, then fresh sub-agents review it. Install steps for Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity, plus commands.

Elephant Goldfish ModelGoogle EGM pluginEGM Claude Code install
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AI Models & Industry ·

Distillation vs Reinforcement Learning: Can Qwen 4B Match 27B?

Qwen 27B taught Qwen 4B three ways: teacher answers, probabilities, on-policy. All landed near 58% versus the 64% teacher, but one cut tokens 30%.

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AI Agents & Automation ·

How to Become an AI Consultant: RACE and Goal Factoring

A step-by-step AI consulting process: find the bottleneck with RACE, goal factor into actions, build, deploy, iterate with evals, and roll out company-wide.

how to become an AI consultantAI consulting processRACE framework bottleneck
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Local AI ·

How to Distill a Small LLM: Tokenizers, Pass@4, and Pitfalls

A practical guide to distilling a large LLM into a small one: the four-tries headroom test, tokenizer matching, vLLM memory limits, and when to stop training.

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AI Models & Industry ·

What Is Broccoli AI? The YC Home Services Startup at $60M ARR

Broccoli uses AI voice, text and SMS to run the front office for home-service contractors. Here is what it does and how its YC founders found the idea.

Broccoli AI home servicesAI receptionist for contractorsYC startup $60M ARR
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AI Models & Industry ·

Why Does Intel 14A Use High-NA EUV When TSMC Doesn't?

Backside power relaxes front-side pitch, so Intel can print 14A layers in one high-NA pass while TSMC sticks to double-patterned EUV. Plus Intel's PDK lessons.

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AI Models & Industry ·

FinFET vs Gate-All-Around: Why Did GAA Take 34 Years?

How transistors moved from planar to FinFET to gate-all-around, and why GAA, demonstrated in 1988, only reached volume production at Samsung in 2022.

gate-all-around transistorFinFET vs GAAhigh-k metal gate
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AI Pricing & Costs ·

How Much Does Qwen Audio Agent Cost With Claude Code?

Qwen Audio Agent is open source, but the DashScope voice front end and Claude Code back end bill separately. Here is where usage comes from.

Qwen Audio Agent costDashScope realtime pricingClaude Code usage cost voice