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Matthew Gladding

Aug 12

The Gap Nobody Names

#embeddingmodels #ragpipeline #symmetricembedding #asymmetricembedding

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 12

The Poindexter Philosophy

#poindexter #aicontentpipeline #opensourceai #gladlabs

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 12

The five days nobody was watching

#agentintrusion #huggingfacebreach #autonomousaiexploits #zerodayexploit

8 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 10

The tell in the pipeline

#originality #derivativework #aigenerationpipeline #novelty

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 8

The Gap Between Merged and Working

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 8

The prompt-engineering era is over

#agents #pattern #model

8 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 8

The Dot's Incident and the Implementation of Topic Sanity Checks

#llmranker #topicsanitychecks #qagate #headlinevalidation

8 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 7

The Danger of Lazy Imports and 126-Day Freezes

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 6

First-Party Knowledge as the Engine

#firstpartyknowledge #firstpartydata #aitrainingdata #rentedknowledge

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 6

VRAM Poisoning and the P4 Architect

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 2

Hunting Ghosts in the Middleware

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 31

Bounded Waits and Invisible Failures

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 29

Silent Failures and Crying Wolf

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 29

The 5,000-minutes-a-day problem

#githubactions #localfirsttesting #githubactionstriggers #pipelineparallelism

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 29

The invoice nobody wants to show you

#aiinfrastructuredebt #offbalancesheetfinancing #bigtechspending #gpudatacenters

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 28

The Trillion Dollar Regex Bug

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 27

Fighting Namespace Blindness and Cardinality Explosions

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 26

Theater, Blackwell Kernels, and the SEO Demand Floor

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 26

Invisible plumbing for reasoning loops

#agenticharness #aiagents #llmtoolcalls #reasoningloops

5 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 25

Grounding titles and breaking the duplication loop

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 24

The Linux Cutover and the Briefing Echo

#linux #software #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 19

Closing the silent data-loss gap

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 18

Hunting the Silent Excepts

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Matthew Gladding

Jul 17

The Question We Actually Had to Answer

#critic #gate #something #model

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 17

Hunting ghosts in the metrics and tightening the CI ratchet

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 16

Naming Lies and Frozen Tails

#debugging #devjournal #llm #softwareengineering

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 15

The Bug That Was Already Fixed -- Five Weeks Ago, By Code Nobody Was Calling

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 15

Where the Silent Failures Were Hiding

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 13

The Console Was Lying to Us About Blocked Approvals

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 13

The Echo Chamber Problem, From the Inside

#ragechochamber #contentonlysourcefilter #offtopiccontentdrafts #ragretrievalbug

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 12

Why a 2021 Textbook on Compilers Still Matters

#introductiontocompilersandlang #douglasthaincompilerbook #compilertheorybasics #lexingparsingsemanticanalysis

10 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 12

The Day We Spent Correcting Ourselves

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 11

The Cards That Spasmed on Hover, and Three Dead Atoms in the Architect's Head

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 11

The Shift to a Native UI

#nativeui #grafanaiframe #poindexterconsole #operationalinterface

6 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 10

The Timeout That Fired in Zero Milliseconds

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 10

Why First-Party Content Strategy Is the Only One Left Standing

#firstpartycontentstrategy #firstpartydata #zeropartydata #thirdpartykeyworddata

7 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 9

The Scorer Was Silently Dropping Half Its Shot Scores

#ai #debugging #devjournal #llm

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 8

The Trap Nobody Notices Until Output Breaks

#theautopilottrap #aicopilots #aipipelineguardrails #automationcomplacency

5 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 8

The Probe That Deployed Dead

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 7

The Zombie That Wasn't RUNNING

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 7

Speculative decoding for local LLM inference: how a small draft model accelerates a large one without changing outputs

#speculativedecoding #localllminference #draftmodel #autoregressivedecoding

8 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 5

Self-healing, silent failures, and the "dead, not inert" bug

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 4

SVG crashes, Loki case-sensitivity, and the fight for an authoritative prompt catalog

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 4

Solving the GPU Pinning Saga and Gemma's Meta-Commentary

#ai #debugging #infrastructure #llm

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 4

Retiring Gen-1 TopicDiscovery and Hunting Invisible Stalls

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 1

Taming the cadvisor leak and cleaning up LLM garbage

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 29

PII leaks and the three-stage shakedown of X distribution

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 29

Automating AI Content Workflows

#automatingaicontentworkflows #modelwrangling #llmagents #aicontentpipeline

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 29

Qwen3-VL Integration Gotchas

#qwen3vlintegration #ollamaapi #thinkingmodelbudget #visionlanguagemodels

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 28

The Operational Cost of Manual Content

#aioperatedcontentbusinesseffic #aiagentsforcontent #autonomoussystems #technicalpublishingworkflow

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 27

Closing the Feedback Loop and Fixing Silent Failures

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 25

Hunting Ghost 503s and Pipeline Halts

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 25

Single-GPU VRAM Budgeting and Stability

#singlegpuvrambudgeting #localllmstability #nvidiadrivermemoryspill #cudaallocation

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 25

Shrinking the Footprint and Cleaning the Pipes

#architecture #automation #devjournal #tooling

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 24

Resolving GlitchTip Memory Allocation Errors

#glitchtipmemoryallocationerror #glitchtipworkerconfiguration #dockercomposedrift #opensourceerrortracking

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 24

Preventing Schema Drift in CI Pipelines

#preventingschemadrift #cipipelines #schemadriftdetection #datapipelinefailure

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 23

Why KV Cache Quantization Matters for Long-Context LLM Inference on Consumer GPUs

#kvcachequantization #longcontextllminference #consumergpuvram #localllmmemoryusage

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 23

Deterministic Citations and CI Gates for Atom Drift

#ai #cicd #llm #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 23

Undervolting your GPU for local AI inference: lower temperatures and power draw with negligible speed loss

#gpuundervolting #localaiinference #llmhardwareoptimization #reducegputemperature

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jun 23

Mechanical Keyboard Switches Explained: Linear vs Tactile vs Clicky for Programming and Gaming

#mechanicalkeyboardswitches #linearswitches #tactileswitches #clickyswitches

3 min read

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