Running a 27B reasoning model distilled from Claude 4.6 Opus on an AMD Strix Halo APU. The model exposes its chain-of-thought via think tags, runs locally at 10 tokens per second in 4-bit quantization, and reveals both the promise and the limits of reasoning distillation from frontier models.
William Stanley Jevons observed that cheaper coal increased total coal consumption. Norbert Wiener, working a century later, described why: positive feedback loops in complex systems amplify efficiency gains into demand expansion. They described the same phenomenon from different disciplines. This piece connects them through AI, where the feedback loop runs faster than the human component can sustain.
I built a full-stack land acquisition platform covering Minnesota and Wisconsin using Claude Code as my primary development tool. 29,000 lines of code across a Python FastAPI backend on AWS Lambda, a Next.js frontend on CloudFront, and on-premises workers running local LLMs. Here's how the entire thing was built in conversations, not in an IDE.
Software licenses assume a human model of creation: a person reads code, internalizes patterns, and might reproduce them. Clean-room reverse engineering exists to prove contamination didn't happen. AI dissolves this framework entirely. When Claude writes a Z80 emulator from the Zilog manual without ever seeing another emulator's source code, the concept of "copying" loses its meaning. Heidegger saw this coming in 1954.
Jason Fried argues that AI won't create a bespoke software revolution because most people don't want to build software. He's right. What AI will do is let people produce bad software at a rate that outpaces the fixed supply of human judgment needed to catch the failures. The result won't be a bespoke software revolution but a Jevons expansion in software that nobody qualified has reviewed.
LTX-Video 2.3 is a 22 billion parameter video generation model. It was never meant to run on decade-old GPUs. I got it running across four Tesla P40s using manual pipeline parallelism, float32 monkey-patching, and a lot of iterative debugging with Claude Code. Here's how, and what the results look like.
