Notes from the floor
The decisions, dead ends, and small wins behind the work. Build in public. Keep the receipts.
- The notch drawer took eight PRs to open in one motion
- Lattice Mem v3 — hardening after the first bench
- Lattice Memory — Jev gates, honest benches, and the miss I copied
- Flash Next MTP vs 27B+DFlash on the same Mac (~72 vs ~55 tok/s)
- Grok Build might just be the best local AI harness
- One Mac hub for routing, memory, and local inference
- Speculative decode doesn't multiply GPUs
- I ran CLM vs Jev on my Mac. Warm System One answers hit 3.7 ms.
- Home Base brain — first cut (two Maxes, one System One)
- Dense 27B hit 70 tok/s on code. Prose still stuck under 40.
- The first version wasn’t good enough. Start again.
- Sample log — Cut the first plate