A tech blog about AI, .NET, DevOps, and taking things apart — measured, benchmarked, and written up as it actually happened.https://spencerclark.dev/https://spencerclark.dev/blog/models-and-monsters/https://spencerclark.dev/blog/models-and-monsters/The Goblin who filed feature requests: How unexpected AI behaviour shaped my multi-agent harness.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spencerclark.dev/blog/can-a-small-model-be-good-agent/https://spencerclark.dev/blog/can-a-small-model-be-good-agent/Twenty-eight models, 1,058 runs and a surprising result: small local models can use tools remarkably well—until the obvious next step fails.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spencerclark.dev/blog/squeezing-the-juice/https://spencerclark.dev/blog/squeezing-the-juice/How many things can an 8GB card do at once? Fewer than it will let you ask for. In this post I benchmark parallelism in a local llmMon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spencerclark.dev/blog/what-the-model-was-thinking/https://spencerclark.dev/blog/what-the-model-was-thinking/Twenty times the tokens to reach the same answer.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spencerclark.dev/blog/what-the-model-saw/https://spencerclark.dev/blog/what-the-model-saw/Four documents, one summarisation, and an answer that took a while to look wrong.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT