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Long-form pieces on AI agents, growth systems, and marketing infrastructure.
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Local models on a 2018 GPU, a saturated benchmark, and the three decisions that mattered
A modded RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB of VRAM runs a dense 27.8B model (Qwen3.8-27B) at 128K context. It scores 95.7% on HumanEval, level with GPT-5's published 95.1%, and a local Gemma4-26B on the same card scores 98.2%, above every published entry. Here is what those numbers are actually worth, and the three engineering decisions that made an eight-year-old card viable.
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The underlying logic of the next growth system
Platforms still control traffic, advertisers still buy growth, users still vote with attention and spend. What AI changed is how demand is understood, content is produced, tasks are executed, and value is measured.
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