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oMLX just added dual ANE support for Qwen3.x models! Now, if that sentence seems like complete gibberish, you’re not alone. There’s a very small subset of people who would get excited about that announcement (and yes, I am one of them) but it’s important in the bigger picture. Katie Robbert and I were talking about…
Lots of folks are confused by model choosers in AI tools. What’s the difference between model and effort? Here’s how I explain it to people. Model: brains Effort: muscle Both settings can burn more usage, but they do it in different ways. As models get bigger and smarter, they cost more compute, so vendors charge…
“No problem, here’s how you build it.” – Reginald Barclay to the Enterprise computer There’s a fantastic, short scene in Star Trek TNG’s episode “The Nth Degree” in which Lt. Barclay, enhanced by aliens, asks the Enterprise computer to build a neural scanning interface and the computer responds, “There is no such device on file.”…
“Show the smallest effective edits.” In the new Trust Insights AI for Writers course, one of the precepts of AI editing is that you have to tell AI how much to edit. If you say, “Edit this document” or “Revise this document”, AI goes hog-wild, drinks a few Gregorios (Hemingway’s actual favorite drink, the mojito…
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It is difficult to overstate how big a deal Qwen3.8 27B is as an AI model. For those new to open weights models, traditionally, open weights models have lagged behind state of the art models by 6-12 months. Using an open weights model (usually for cost reasons) meant sacrificing capabilities for cost. The team at…
