notes on software, hardware, and the long way around.
currently building: an opt-in-cloud Claude Code router pointing at a local qwen3:14b on a spare MacBook. companion post to the Pi5 piece is next.
Laurie Voss says we're all product engineers now. I pulled a few months of my own numbers to see what that actually looks like day to day. The code part is basically free. The waiting part is not, and the outer loop is where I spend my brain.
A real-time investigation log. Pi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H AI HAT+ vs. a 2023 MacBook Air M2 as Claude Code backends over the LAN. The MacBook wins by 5x on speed at a model twice as big, for $0. Notes on qwen3 vs qwen2.5-coder tool-use parsing, SD-card I/O stalls, NAND price spikes...
I had six bricked Google WiFi pucks. Claude was sure five of them needed a $30 SPI programmer and an older coreboot that nobody publishes. I was poking around the open case looking for any other angle when I noticed a silver screw with a conductive washer next to the H1 chip. ...
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