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How much VRAM do you need to run a local LLM? A rule of thumb
Estimate memory for a local model from its parameter count and bits per weight, then add room for the KV cache. Worked numbers for 7B, 13B and 70B.
Oct 18, 20264 min read
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How much data do you need to fine-tune an LLM?
Often hundreds to low thousands of clean examples, not millions. What the LIMA paper showed about quality over quantity and how to size your set.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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How many chunks should you retrieve for a code question?
Five, ten or twenty? Anthropic found 20 chunks beat 5 or 10 in their tests. How to find the right top k for your own code and model, with a method.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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How Claude plan usage limits work: five hour and weekly windows
Claude plans meter usage in a five hour session plus a weekly limit, not a message count. What drives it, how to check it and what to do at the limit.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Heartbeat alerts: how to notice when monitoring goes quiet
A heartbeat alert fires when an expected signal stops arriving. Learn where to use it for jobs, log sources and the alerting pipeline itself.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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429 Too Many Requests: what API servers and clients should do
What a 429 response means, what the Retry-After header does, and how servers and clients should behave so limits protect you without breaking users.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Handling false positives and wrong comments from AI reviewers
AI reviewers sometimes flag correct code or state falsehoods. How to log, dismiss and tune so false positives do not erode trust or hide real findings.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Handling 429 errors from an LLM API: rate limit or spend cap?
Not every 429 is a rate limit. Learn to tell a retryable limit from a spend cap, use retry-after correctly, and avoid retry storms that waste money.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Hackathon and demo day security checklist for engineering teams
Hackathon and demo day checklist: separate data, throwaway credentials, public repo hygiene, careful dependency choice and cleanup afterwards.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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