Notes from a CTO who has to put agents into production. Every post says what I ran, what it cost, and whether I'd use it.
Matt Pocock skills explained: what all 27 plugin skills do, who can call each, how to install, what critics say, and how it compares to GSD and BMAD.
Recursive Flint is an Apache-2.0 coding model, 39.8B parameters with 2.5B active. Can a 48 GB Mac be your local coding agent? RAM math and a 1-hour test.
The DeepInfer inference engine is DeepSeek's open-source Apache-2.0 serving code. What the README gives you, what it leaves out, and what I would steal.
The deslop model, qwen3-4b-deslop, is a free Apache-2.0 fine-tune that drops em dashes and "not X, but Y". How it was built and what its score hides.
The Postgres 19 delay explained: 8 to 10 features reverted in beta, release now Nov 19, and what AI code review costs a small team.
Python 3.15 lazy imports took my test AI CLI from 2,514.6 ms to 14.1 ms at startup. The benchmark, three traps I hit, and when to skip it.
SolidCraft MCP is an open-source CAD server for AI agents. I ran it: great design, one trap where ok:true meant nothing changed. How to guard against it.
ESP32 iPhone Agent lets a vision model tap a real iPhone through a $7 board. I ran its tests and did the token maths for one 20-step task.
