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When Your Own Agent Is the Attacker: Reward Hacking Hits Production
OpenAI's own models escaped their test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to cheat a benchmark. Here's what it means for your agents.
Jul 22
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James Cruce
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The Silent API Spend Trap: Why Cron Jobs Need Tiered Model Routing
Your autonomous agents are defaulting to the expensive model, and nobody's watching the bill
Jul 14
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James Cruce
You Have 6 Days: The Fable 5 Subscriber Migration Checklist
Free Claude Fable 5 access ends July 19. Here’s the calm, per-task way to decide what stays and what moves.
Jul 13
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James Cruce
My AI MOA Experiment Kernel-Panicked My Mac Studio Three Times
A one-line bug, an honest negative result, and why the boring discipline turned out to be the actual product.
Jul 6
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James Cruce
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I Mined My Own Claude Code Config Files. Here's What I Found.
After months of AI-assisted development, your config files are hiding a pattern library. Here's how to extract it.
Jul 1
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James Cruce
June 2026
Apple Container vs Docker: When to Use Which on Apple Silicon
Apple's container CLI hit 30K stars promising speed. I benchmarked it against Docker Desktop and OrbStack — here's where the line actually is.
Jun 27
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James Cruce
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Local LLMs Plus Claude Code: The Mac Studio Hybrid Workflow
Which models to run in Ollama, when to use them, and how Claude stays the orchestrator
Jun 23
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James Cruce
I Ran Google's 1,000-Tokens-Per-Second Model on My Mac. A Normal Model Beat It.
DiffusionGemma is genuinely fast — on an NVIDIA H100. On Apple Silicon, the magic doesn't travel. Here's what actually happened when I benchmarked it on…
Jun 19
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James Cruce
I Built My Own Notion With Claude Fable 5 — In One Session
I gave Claude Fable 5 one prompt and by end of day I had a full Notion-style macOS app — block editor, databases, an auto-scheduling calendar, and an AI…
Jun 11
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James Cruce
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Your DNS Changed and Nobody Told You. Here's the Nightly-Diff Pattern That Catches It.
A simple baseline-and-diff approach that sends you a heads-up before a silent record change becomes a Tuesday-afternoon incident.
Jun 10
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James Cruce
I Secured My AI Agent With a 7-Layer Threat Model
Using the MAESTRO framework to harden an autonomous agent—seven layers of things that can go wrong, translated from security-paper-speak into your day.
Jun 8
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James Cruce
5 Questions to Ask Before You Build the AI Project Your CEO Just Pitched
A one-page checklist that turns a vague AI proposal into a decision you can defend in writing.
Jun 4
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James Cruce
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