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Deep Dive · Companion to Issue #027 Aug 2026
What the Bypass Cost: Abliterated Qwen3.8 Froze the Browser
A hands-on, single-prompt build test across four local 30B models on one RTX 5090. Abliterating Qwen3.8-27B removed its refusals with zero measurable benchmark cost, then removed something the benchmarks never checked: the deliberation that catches a fatal bug.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature May 2026
Five Rounds, Six Models, One RTX 5090
A five-round local-vs-frontier bake-off on a single workstation. Four open-weight 30B-class models plus Codex and Claude. The 'coding model' came last on three rounds, and fastest on the only test that mirrors real software work.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature May 2026
Faster Than We Can Patch
AI made vulnerability discovery cheap enough to break the disclosure-and-patch system that fixes software. At the same time, the developer workstation became the enterprise's softest target. A look at Project Glasswing, the TeamPCP GitHub breach, and what builders should actually change.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature Apr 2026
What 'Open' Actually Means: Abliterating Gemma 4 in 24 Minutes
A hands-on experiment running Heretic against Gemma 4 E4B-it within 48 hours of release. Results, methodology, what it means for builders deploying open models, and why runtime safety just became non-optional.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature Mar 2026
NVIDIA Just Put a Cage Around the Lobster
NVIDIA launched NemoClaw at GTC 2026 — an open-source security and deployment stack for OpenClaw agents. Here's what it actually does, why it matters, and what builders should do about it right now.
Lab 3 · Advanced Mar 2026
Lab: Ship Your First Secure AI Agent with NemoClaw
Hands-on lab: deploy a sandboxed OpenClaw agent with NemoClaw on WSL2, macOS, or Linux. Includes the workaround for the GPU sandbox bug and the first confirmed GPU passthrough on WSL2.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature Mar 2026
I Let an AI Do ML Research While I Slept
We gave an AI agent a laptop GPU, a training script, and a set of research instructions written in English. Then we went to sleep. It ran 127 experiments overnight, and its biggest breakthrough broke every rule in the ML textbook.
Deep Dive · Standalone Feature Feb 2026
The Agent Identity Crisis
Your AI agents don't have IDs. Disclosure is now the law, and you can't disclose what you can't identify. The compliance gap, the protocol identity gap, and the biggest builder opportunity in the agentic stack.
Deep Dive · Companion to Issue #001 Feb 2026
The Protocol War That Isn't: MCP vs A2A
The two protocols becoming the default rails of the agent economy. Full breakdown, comparison table, honest cons, hype scorecard, and a 3-lab hands-on workbook with runnable code.
Lab 3 · Advanced Feb 2026
Dual-Agent Architecture: Structured Work Channels
The lab that separates builders from bloggers. Structured JSON between agents, natural language only for humans. 83% token savings. Full code included.

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