AI Tools
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Matt Pocock Skills: Every Skill Explained and How to Install
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.
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Local Coding Agent: Can a 48 GB Mac Run Recursive Flint?
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.
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Deslop Model: Training AI Tics Out of Qwen3-4B
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.
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Postgres 19 Delay: AI Review Found Too Many Bugs
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.
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ESP32 iPhone Agent: A $7 Board That Gives AI Hands
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.
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Talorys: What a Free AI Agent Gets From 10,000 Neurons
Talorys is an MIT-licensed free AI agent that runs in your Cloudflare account. I did the Neuron maths to see how many chat turns a day it really buys.
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Cactus Whistle: 17 MB Speech-to-Text, Tested in French
I ran Cactus Whistle, a 16.9 MB open speech-to-text model, on Québec French, accented English and noise. Here is what it got wrong.
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Shortcut scored 5.9, Claude scored 5.5, both failed
A reader asked which spreadsheet agent to buy. The honest answer is a 0.4-point gap on a 10-point test where both tools landed under 60%, plus a $996 annual price difference nobody benchmarked.
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Does OpenClaw Really Work for Non-Programmers? The Truth Hurts
For most non-programmers, OpenClaw does not really work. Not in the way people mean when they ask the question. Yes, you can watch a slick demo. Yes, you…