The article introduces Inkling-Small, a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276 B total and 12 B active parameters that matches full Inkling performance at one-quarter the size. It handles text, images, and audio with a 1 M-token context window and lets users trade compute for thinking effort. The open-weight model outperforms peers on tool use, coding, reasoning, and multimodal benchmarks and is available for fine-tuning and chat.

The author reruns security vulnerability triage experiments across 26 combinations of Claude and GPT-5 models with varying reasoning effort and context sizes. A four-model “council” achieved 86.2% unanimous votes, and GPT-5.4 at medium/high effort led overall performance, though full-chain solutions remained rare. The study also found higher reasoning sometimes backfires and function-level inputs outperformed whole-file analysis.

Whichllm is a single-command CLI that detects your GPU/CPU/RAM, pulls live benchmarks from HuggingFace, and ranks the best fitting local LLMs by real performance metrics. It also lets you simulate different GPUs, generate Python snippets, run chats, output JSON, and plan hardware upgrades.

Ponytail is an always-on ruleset and plugin for AI coding agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, etc.) that enforces a step-by-step “ladder” to include only necessary code. Benchmarks show 80–94% less code, 3–6× faster responses, and 42–75% lower cost by preferring built-ins and one-liner solutions before adding dependencies.

The team built a system that quantifies how much engineering work Devin delivers vs. what you pay, then backs that claim with up to $10 million per customer. They validated the methodology with independent data and benchmarks to prove Devin consistently delivers more output than its cost.

This article reruns a 2023 benchmark with the latest LLMs, comparing direct SQL generation against querying through a structured dbt Semantic Layer. It finds that while text-to-SQL accuracy has jumped, a modeled Semantic Layer still delivers near-perfect, deterministic results for covered queries, making it ideal for complex or critical use cases.