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Architecture Verified, Mythology Intact: Running OpenMythos on a Strix Halo

2026-04-20 · 19 min read

Kyegomez published OpenMythos as a speculative, open-source reconstruction of Claude Mythos. I ran the 1B variant on a Strix Halo (Radeon 8060S, ROCm) to test what an open reconstruction of a frontier model can and cannot teach you. The architecture's internal claims check out: rho(A) at init is exactly e^-1, the spectral-radius stability constraint prevents the failure mode it's designed to prevent, and hidden states blow up exactly as the LTI analysis predicts. What it does not teach you: anything about Claude Mythos.

Teaching an LLM a Language It Has Never Seen

2026-04-02 · 17 min read

Lattice is a programming language I designed. It does not exist in any LLM's training data. Claude writes it fluently, including a 5,000-line self-hosted compiler. This article examines why, what works, what breaks, and what it tells us about how language models understand programming languages they've never seen.

Machine Learning

Distilled Reasoning on Strix Halo: Running a Claude-Trained Thinking Model Locally

2026-03-29 · 13 min read

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.

Philosophy

The Feedback Loop That Jevons Couldn't Name

2026-03-27 · 16 min read

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.

projects

Building DirtScout: A Land Acquisition Platform with Claude Code

2026-03-25 · 12 min read

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.

Philosophy

Enframing the Code

2026-03-22 · 13 min read

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.

Philosophy

The Excavator and the Foundation

2026-03-21 · 13 min read

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.

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8+ posts Jevons Paradox & AI Economics What happens when cognitive output gets cheaper. Demand expansion, the biological ceiling, and the AI vampire. 3 parts Heidegger & Technology Enframing, standing reserve, and what happens when AI treats specifications as raw material for code generation. 8+ posts Z80 RetroShield Running a real Z80 on modern hardware. CP/M, Forth, Zork, custom PCBs, and a dual-processor design. 3 parts Sampo CPU & Compilers A custom RISC CPU from ISA design through FPGA implementation to an LLVM backend. 6 posts Tesla P40 Home Lab Four eBay GPUs, 96GB of VRAM, and every workload we can throw at them. LLMs, TTS, video generation. 3 parts The Lattice Language A programming language where mutability is a phase transition. Novel type system, bytecode VM, 100 opcodes.

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