The archive
The full Techtrendery.com archive, newest first. Every piece names its author, its publication date and the conditions any measurement was taken under.
For eighteen months the assumption was that every serious AI workload belonged on the largest available model. Procurement data, inference bills and a wave of narrow fine-tunes now point somewhere much less glamorous and considerably cheaper.
Every team shipping an agent with tool access eventually meets the same class of bug, and no filter has ever closed it completely. We catalogue the patterns that keep appearing in real incidents and the containment measures that reduce the blast radius.
When most pull requests stop being written by hand, the review conventions built around human authorship start to misfire. We collected the checklist changes, CI gates and ownership rules teams adopted after the switch.
Hybrid post-quantum key exchange rolled out to most browsers with almost no user-facing announcement. We explain what it defends against, the handshake overhead it adds, and the middleboxes it quietly breaks.
Repatriation stories usually stop at the infrastructure line item. We asked three teams for the full picture, including the headcount they had to add and the one migration that was quietly reversed.
Nit counts and weight figures say almost nothing about whether a pair of smart glasses survives a normal week. We wore four current models daily and measured the five variables that decided which ones stayed on our faces.
The first genuinely affordable micro-LED desktop panels arrived this summer with enormous brightness claims. We put three of them on the colorimeter alongside a current OLED reference to see where the money goes.
We instrumented a single agent working a real backlog and recorded every request it made for a month. The spending pattern was nothing like the per-task estimates the pricing pages suggest.
You do not need a workstation GPU to run a capable assistant that never sends a word off your network. This build walks through the hardware, the model and quantisation choices that fit in unified memory, and how to reach it safely from a phone.
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