Stories from the build.

Each story here is one arc of the work - what we tried, how we measured it, and the tables. Numbers are what they were that day; the ladder is where the current ones live.

2026-09-03engineThe engine learned to talk.Three speech models, a text front end that is nothing but data, and an afternoon spent hunting a hiss that turned out to be a comma. 2026-09-03engineThe model that drafts its own next token.Qwen 3.8 and Gemma 4 ship with a drafter built in. We taught dasLLAMA to use it on Metal, then spent two days with a ruler finding out what a draft is worth. 2026-08-30hardwareBoris got a new laptop.An M5 Max, an engine that had never seen one, and sixty-two kernels that had to earn their place on it again.