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Riley Wu

Software engineer by day, open source contributor by night.

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Hold the Loop on Disk Until the Wire Earns It

Hold the Loop on Disk Until the Wire Earns It

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Weigh the Payload Before the Hop

Weigh the Payload Before the Hop

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Stopwatch First: Local Work or a Remote Hop

Stopwatch First: Local Work or a Remote Hop

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When Local CPU Loses to RTT

When Local CPU Loses to RTT

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Score Agent Hops Before They Leave Disk

Score Agent Hops Before They Leave Disk

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Route Prompts by Latency, Secrets, and Link

Route Prompts by Latency, Secrets, and Link

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Secrets Stay Local Until the Hop Is Clean

Secrets Stay Local Until the Hop Is Clean

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Score LLM-Written Tests with Mutation Testing on a Free Server

Score LLM-Written Tests with Mutation Testing on a Free Server

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SimHash Cache: Cutting 40% of Token Calls on a Free LLM Tier

SimHash Cache: Cutting 40% of Token Calls on a Free LLM Tier

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A Free AI Code Reviewer: Hooking MonkeyCode's Server to GitHub PRs

A Free AI Code Reviewer: Hooking MonkeyCode's Server to GitHub PRs

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How to Audit Bias When Free LLMs Judge Paid Models

How to Audit Bias When Free LLMs Judge Paid Models

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Fail Over Only After the Local Process Gasps

Fail Over Only After the Local Process Gasps

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Probe Your LLM's Context: A Three-Backend Stale-Answer Test

Probe Your LLM's Context: A Three-Backend Stale-Answer Test

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Spend Zero Tokens on Easy Questions: A Cheap LLM Router on a Free Server

Spend Zero Tokens on Easy Questions: A Cheap LLM Router on a Free Server

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Measure Latency, Secrets, and Offline Before Choosing a Model Endpoint

Measure Latency, Secrets, and Offline Before Choosing a Model Endpoint

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The Endpoint Rule: Local or Free Server?

The Endpoint Rule: Local or Free Server?

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Local-First Inference: When Your Laptop Beats a Cloud API

Local-First Inference: When Your Laptop Beats a Cloud API

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Free-Tier Model Review: A Repeatable Code Audit Pipeline That Costs Nothing

Free-Tier Model Review: A Repeatable Code Audit Pipeline That Costs Nothing

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Your LLM Quota Will Run Out: A Fallback Ladder for Free-Tier Apps

Your LLM Quota Will Run Out: A Fallback Ladder for Free-Tier Apps

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Batch LLM Jobs Without Breaking the Bank: A Queue-First Architecture for Free Tiers

Batch LLM Jobs Without Breaking the Bank: A Queue-First Architecture for Free Tiers

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The Week After the Eval: A Cost-Aware Routing Harness for New Model Drops

The Week After the Eval: A Cost-Aware Routing Harness for New Model Drops

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Hype Cycles Don't Ship My Code: How I Gate New LLMs with a Self-Written Eval Deck

Hype Cycles Don't Ship My Code: How I Gate New LLMs with a Self-Written Eval Deck

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Pick Your LLM With a Scoreboard, Not a Hunch: A Two-File Eval That Costs Nothing to Re-Run

Pick Your LLM With a Scoreboard, Not a Hunch: A Two-File Eval That Costs Nothing to Re-Run

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