Performance over Portability? Running Local LLMs on the Asus ProArt 13
Can a thin-and-light PC handle production-level LLMs? We benchmark the Asus ProArt 13 with RTX 4060, the Ryzen AI 9 NPU, and the 8GB VRAM bottleneck.
Engineering
The Agent Supervisor Pattern: Why Your Mesh Needs a Boss
Autonomous agents are prone to infinite reasoning loops and 'democratic' indecision. We explore the Supervisor pattern in LangGraph, MCP, and why orchestration beats choreography.
Visualizing All-Reduce Bandwidth: The Physics of Distributed Training
When your model doesn't fit on one GPU, you're no longer just learning coding-you're learning physics. We dive deep into the primitives of NCCL, distributed collectives, and why the interconnect is the computer.
Debugging NCCL Ring Failures
When standard tools report a healthy cluster, but your training is stalled, the culprit is often a broken ring topology. We decode specific NCCL algorithms and debugging flags.
Blackwell's Sparse Attention Engines: The Reality of FP4
FP4 isn't just 'lower precision' - it requires a fundamental rethink of activation outliers. We dive into the bit-level implementation of NVFP4, Micro-Tensor Scaling, and the new Tensor Memory hierarchy.