Local AI experiments and notes from testing what is possible now.https://discostew.dev/https://discostew.dev/posts/good-news-jesus-is-risen/https://discostew.dev/posts/good-news-jesus-is-risen/Just trying to share the Word: the tomb is empty, hope is alive, and Christ has conquered death.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://discostew.dev/posts/local-model-fireworks-approval-results/https://discostew.dev/posts/local-model-fireworks-approval-results/A receipt-heavy proof run for three local runtime lanes: GLM 5.2, MiniMax M3, and DeepSeek V4 Flash.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://discostew.dev/posts/proof-david-wilderness-stealth-prototype/https://discostew.dev/posts/proof-david-wilderness-stealth-prototype/Evidence from a real Godot 4 render and validation run for a hex-grid stealth tactics prototype about David reaching the Cave of Adullam.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://discostew.dev/posts/chromadb-was-extra-state-not-evidence/https://discostew.dev/posts/chromadb-was-extra-state-not-evidence/Why I removed ChromaDB from Baseball RAG after realizing it did not give me anything the model and database could not already do better.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://discostew.dev/posts/ai-reliability-accessibility/https://discostew.dev/posts/ai-reliability-accessibility/A short note from discostew on treating AI reliability as an accessibility practice, not just an infrastructure concern.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://discostew.dev/posts/fidelity-over-backward-compatibility/https://discostew.dev/posts/fidelity-over-backward-compatibility/Why I accepted breaking API changes in Propontis when the old schema hid important evidence boundaries.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://discostew.dev/posts/hashing-the-contract-not-the-file/https://discostew.dev/posts/hashing-the-contract-not-the-file/Why an evaluation baseline should track the public behavior users depend on instead of private implementation bytes.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://discostew.dev/posts/let-the-llm-write-make-the-database-check-facts/https://discostew.dev/posts/let-the-llm-write-make-the-database-check-facts/A design note on generated biographies, stat-claim extraction, and using structured data to keep prose honest.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://discostew.dev/posts/mcp-servers-and-context-tax/https://discostew.dev/posts/mcp-servers-and-context-tax/Why I do not want persistent MCP servers in my default Hermes profile unless the recurring value is obvious.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://discostew.dev/posts/model-should-explain-evidence-not-be-evidence/https://discostew.dev/posts/model-should-explain-evidence-not-be-evidence/A short decision story about source authority, provenance, and keeping generated prose out of the truth path.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://discostew.dev/posts/removing-chromadb-made-rag-reliable/https://discostew.dev/posts/removing-chromadb-made-rag-reliable/Why I removed a vector database from my baseball RAG project and kept DuckDB as the source of truth for structured facts.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT