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Bird by Block: A Hands-On Look at the Free Open-Source AI Agent App
Block's free open-source desktop app Bird unifies Claude, Codex, Copilot, Amp, and Goose into one interface. Here's how it works.

How to Build a News Aggregator Website with AI, No Code Required
Learn how to build a text-only, ad-free news aggregator using Lovable's AI website builder, no coding skills needed, from idea to live site.

Lovable vs Replit vs Codex vs Claude Code: Which One to Build With?
Comparing Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Codex, and Claude Code to help you match your app idea to the right AI builder or coding agent.

What Is DeepSeek Harness? The Open-Source Coding Agent Explained
DeepSeek Harness is an open-source, plugin-based coding agent that hit 165,000 GitHub stars in a week. Here's how it works.

DeepSeek Harness vs Claude Code vs Codex: Which Coding Agent Wins?
DeepSeek's open-source, plugin-based coding harness challenges Claude Code and Codex. Here's how the customizable approach compares.

Docker Sandboxes: How to Safely Run AI Coding Agents
Docker Sandboxes isolate AI coding agents in micro VMs with network policies, credential proxying, and file limits. Here's how they work.

The Five Types of Software You Can Build with AI (And How to Pick One)
Local tools, web apps, native apps, background services, hardware projects. A framework for matching your idea to the right AI build before you start.

GLM 5.3 Review: Coding, Security, and Creative Tests Put to the Test
A hands-on GLM 5.3 review covering live coding refactors, a defensive security audit, and creative HTML generation against a real Dockerized app.

When Will GLM 5.3 Open Weights Be Released?
GLM 5.3 is live via API now, but open weights are delayed. Here's what's known about the timeline and why Zhipu is holding them back.

What Is Lovable? The AI App Builder Explained Simply
What is Lovable? An explainer on the AI platform that turns plain-English descriptions into real, hosted apps with databases and logins.

MacBook M5 Max vs Razer Blade 18 RTX 5090: Which Wins for Devs?
M5 Max MacBook vs Razer Blade 18 RTX 5090 compared on Geekbench, SSD speed, and .NET compile times to see which laptop actually wins.

Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B Benchmarks: How It Stacks Up Against Qwen3.6
Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B benchmark breakdown vs Qwen3.6-35B, Gemma 4-31B and Muse Glimmer-30B across SWE-bench, Terminal-Bench, HLE and agentic tests.

Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B: Local Deployment, VRAM, and Real-World Tests
Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B is a mixture-of-experts model with 3B active params. Here's how it runs locally on an A100, and how it handles agentic and reasoning tests.

Ornith 1.5 9B: Local Test Results Expose a Benchmark Gap
A hands-on local test of Ornith 1.5 9B on a single GPU reveals agentic and coding tasks breaking down despite strong benchmark claims.

What Is Qwak? Tether's Free Local AI Platform Explained
Qwak is Tether's open-source local AI platform bundling text, RAG, fine-tuning, and image/video generation into one offline install.

Qwen 3.8 27B Benchmarked: Agentic Index, Vision, and Reasoning Tests
Hands-on benchmarks of Qwen 3.8 27B covering its agentic index score, image counting, bounding box drawing, and reasoning effort output quality.

Qwen3.8-9B Distill by Empero: Benchmarks and Local Setup
Empero distilled Qwen3.8's reasoning into a 9B dense model. Here's what the MMLU and GSM8K benchmarks show, and how to run it locally.

Local LLMs in LM Studio: MacBook (MLX) vs Windows GPU Laptop (GGUF)
Compare running local LLMs in LM Studio on Apple Silicon with MLX versus a Windows GPU laptop with GGUF, and which setup fits your workflow.

How to Run Qwen 3 27B Locally with DeepSeek Harness
Set up Qwen 3 27B on your own hardware with DeepSeek Harness. Covers quantization, MLX vs VLM, reasoning effort, and vision capabilities.

Zed Delta: A Hands-On Look at the Git-Alternative AI Coding Agent
Zed's new Delta app pairs an AI coding agent with Delta DB, a version control layer that links every code change to the chat that made it.

The White House's Real AI Fears: Cyberattacks, Not Killer Bots
White House tech chief Michael Kratsios explains which AI risks the administration takes seriously and which fears he sees as overblown.

AI State Law Preemption Explained: Why It Matters for Startups
A single federal AI standard vs. a state-by-state patchwork could decide whether small AI startups can compete with the largest tech companies.

DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813: What's New and How It Stacks Up
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 adds DSpark speculative decoding and beats its preview on coding, agentic, and tool-use benchmarks versus GLM 5.2, Kimi K3, and Opus 4.8.

DFlash 2: Run Qwen3.8-27B at 2x Speed with Speculative Decoding
DFlash 2 speeds up Qwen3.8-27B inference roughly 2x on a single A100 using speculative decoding in SGLang, with no output quality loss.