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Last week: AI agents buying things with real money, a bot marketplace, Claude Code's leaked source, and swapping the brain of a local LLM mid-production.
My $600 Mac Mini Runs a 35B AI Model. Yesterday I Swapped Its Brain.
I've been running local inference on 16GB RAM across three tiers — and last week I swapped the model from Qwen to Gemma with zero downtime. This post walks through the actual setup: what runs where, what fails, and what surprised me about the swap.
Claude Code's Source Got Leaked. Here's What's Actually Worth Learning.
512,000 lines of TypeScript. 44 feature flags. The internet focused on the drama. I went through the actual code and pulled out the parts that matter if you're building with AI agents. Practical takeaways, no hype.
I Built a Marketplace. My First Sellers Were Robots.
Botstall is an AI agent marketplace — and the cold start problem hit in an unexpected way: the first listings came from bots, not humans. I built three trust gates and a $4.99 subscription model to handle it. Here's what that actually looked like in practice.
I Gave My AI Agent $25 and Told It to Buy Me a Gift. Here's How Far It Got.
Five hours. Four stores. A real debit card. Zero successful purchases. The failure wasn't about the agent being dumb — it was about how e-commerce is quietly built to block automation. What I found was more interesting than a success story would've been.