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4GB VRAM is not a 4GB capacity plan

AirLLM runs Llama 3.x 70B on about 4GB of VRAM by streaming layers from disk, which moves the constraint to host RAM, disk, latency and token rate.

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VIDEOday 152·yesterday

4GB VRAM is not a 4GB capacity plan

AirLLM runs Llama 3.x 70B on about 4GB of VRAM by streaming layers from disk, which moves the constraint to host RAM, disk, latency and token rate.

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POSTday 152·yesterday

Agent monitors need a tamper boundary

#ai-agents#agent-security
Agent monitors need a tamper boundary
ESSAYday 151·2d ago

Health agents need separate expert and user gates

Health-agent releases need separate expert-safety and user-usability gates, with evaluator disagreement tracked instead of averaged away.

5 min read#health-ai
Health agents need separate expert and user gates
VIDEOday 150·3d ago

A 311-skill catalogue is a routing problem

ECC bundles 311 skills, but catalogue size does not prove useful routing; start with a narrow profile, inspect hooks and verify harness parity.

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A 311-skill catalogue is a routing problem0:36
POSTday 150·3d ago

On-device AI needs a feature resource ladder

#edge-ai#capacity-planning
On-device AI needs a feature resource ladder
POSTday 149·4d ago

AI referral budgets need an absolute conversion share

#analytics#attribution
AI referral budgets need an absolute conversion share
LINKday 148·5d ago

Specialised agent harnesses need a fallback route

OO-Harness gives specialist agent code a regression floor: preserve the base result unless the current failure matches a tested repair.

↗Li et al. — Object-Oriented Harnesshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28380
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Specialised agent harnesses need a fallback route
POSTday 147·6d ago

Synthetic market data needs a fidelity horizon

#synthetic-data#evaluation
Synthetic market data needs a fidelity horizon
POSTday 146·7d ago

Medical AI needs a six-dimension evidence matrix

#medical-ai#evaluation
Medical AI needs a six-dimension evidence matrix
ESSAYday 145·8d ago

Coding agents need a refinement budget

A coding-agent refinement budget should continue review only while each cycle adds test evidence, removes a defect or advances acceptance.

5 min read#coding-agents
Coding agents need a refinement budget
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