Vol. I · No. 111SAT, AUG 8, 2026
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My experience using Claude code with Local Llm, and full guide on how to set it up

Wanted to share a workflow I tested on a real flight, in case anyone else is trying to set up offline Claude Code. The core idea: using ollama to pull the needed model of what you need, and then use it to run claude code The setup, in order: 1. Pull a model on home wifi the night before. \`ollama pull <model>\` — \~9 GB for a 14B, \~17 GB for a 26B. Don't try this at the gate. 2. In Claude Code, point at Ollama. The cleanest path I found is wrapping it in two aliases: alias claude-local='ollama launch claude --model gemma4:26b' alias claude-cloud='claude' 3. Verify on the ground with...

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pydantic-monty investigation

Research: pydantic-monty investigation It's been a few months since I last poked at Monty , the sandboxed subset of Python implemented in Rust. I had Claude Code look at the most recent release. Importantly the max_duration_secs , max_memory , max_allocations , and max_recursion_depth settings all appear to work as advertised. Tags: python , sandboxing , pydantic

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Claude just called me a human bunny?

Reddit user reports Claude Sonnet 4.6 output fragment mentioning 'human bunny' during NLP sentiment analysis coding session.

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The butterfly effect in LLM social simulations. Relevant to how we write CLAUDE.md and system prompts.

Two persona prompts, identical content, same model (gpt-5.2). Only difference is formatting: one prose, one bullet points. In a 10-round Prisoner’s Dilemma the prose version cooperated \~96% of the time, the bullet version \~20%. A 76pp gap, p < 0.001. Same meaning, opposite behavior. Authors call it the butterfly effect in LLM simulations. The part that matters here: CLAUDE.md, system prompts, and memory are mostly declared self-description. If formatting alone moves behavior this much, two people with the same intent get different Claudes based on how they happened to write it up. Any...

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Aged like fine WINE

that meme on the chatgpt subreddit is so spot on ngl. even when you have requirements locked down managing the stack gets so weird. claude is an absolute beast at backend logic, teh reasoning depth is just insane now.the real mess starts when u try to scale past a basic landing page. forcing a single chat window to track complex UI layouts on top of everything just cooks the token limit and causes massive code drift. i ended up completely separating my enviornment to stop fighting the bottleneck. now i just let claude handle pure data pipelines, dump states into a quick db, and let stitch tak...

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MCP is quietly becoming Anthropic's most underrated contribution to AI

Most everyone focuses on Claude, the Constitutional AI Safety Research. However, I believe that the most practical impact from anything Anthropic has released to date may have been MCP. Given that MCP is a model-agnostic platform that is open-source, it allows developers who are not utilizing Claude to utilize it as well. Both OpenAI and Google are utilizing MCP. As such, MCP is being developed into the de-facto industry standard for connecting tools within artificial intelligence. I also find MCP shifts the bottleneck. Historically, getting an LLM to become smarter was the difficul...

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Anthropic, Microsoft in talks for AI chip deal after $5 billion investment

The Information reported Anthropic is exploring use of Microsoft's second-generation Maia AI server chips as a way to expand compute capacity for Claude beyond its existing AWS and Google Cloud footprint. The talks are early and may not lead to a deal; Maia 200 was announced in January but has yet to ship on Azure. A deal would mark a notable diversification away from Nvidia in the AI infrastructure race.

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Handoffs are becoming a first-class pattern in Claude workflows. Here is how I have been thinking about them.

Long Claude sessions still break on context decay. Handoffs are the simple fix: compress what matters, start a fresh agent, keep going. Matt Pocock's new `handoff` skill ([repo](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/productivity/handoff/SKILL.md)) does this in one command. It compacts the conversation into a document, points at existing artifacts instead of restating them, and the next agent picks up from it. It also chains between threads: `/grill-with-docs -> /handoff -> /prototype -> /handoff back`. I built handoffs into [APM](https://github.com/sdi2200262/agenti...

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Evaluating Commercial AI Chatbots as News Intermediaries

AI chatbots are rapidly shaping how people encounter the news, yet no prior study has systematically measured how accurately these systems, with their proprietary search integrations and retrieval-synthesis pipelines, handle emerging facts across languages and regions. We present a 14-day (February 9-22, 2026) evaluation of six AI chatbots (Gemini 3 Flash and Pro, Grok 4, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, GPT-5 and GPT-4o mini) on 2,100 factual questions derived from same-day BBC News reporting across six regional services (US & Canada, Arabic, Afrique, Hindi, Russian, Turkish). The best systems achieve ove...

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Anthropic officially launched 13+ FREE AI courses with certificates (Including Agentic AI and Claude Code!)

Just found out about this and had to share because almost nobody is talking about it yet. If you are tired of paying for AI courses or getting hit with paywalls just to get a certificate, Anthropic (the creators of Claude) quietly dropped a massive library of completely free, official training modules. Yes, they actually give you an official certificate of completion directly from Anthropic once you finish. Here is the breakdown of what is available and exactly how to get it without spending a dime. What is in the course catalog? They have split the training into a few different paths de...

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