Teaching Tower Thai: our plan for a TowerInstruct LoRA
We are building a small LoRA on Unbabel TowerInstruct-7B so English→Thai machine translation can improve on our own GPU—without burning frontier tokens on every paragraph.
When a local coding agent hallucinates success: Qwen-Coder on our GPU desk
We handed a real multi-file React Native feature to a local Qwen2.5-Coder 14B coding agent on our Gaia GPU. It reported success. Git stayed clean. Here is the failure mode — and how we route AI engineering work now.
Local GPU bulk MT: Tower-Plus on a 3090 cuts frontier token cost for 3DN and PolitiCap
Hybrid Grok desk: frontier judgment, gaia-tower for EN→ZH/NL. 59 articles translated locally; ~$12 saved this batch.
Hybrid GPU desks: Grok Build makes local Qwen a first-class worker under Grok API direction
After open weights lost to Grok 4.5 on our coding desk, a quad-3090 + EPYC box looked like a desinvestment. Hybrid is a first-class Grok Build feature: keep Grok on the API for judgment, offload bulk turns to local inference — with cost calculus.
Sealed batches under load: Bangkok and Berlin PolitiCap ECN trials
Live engineering analysis of MarketMaker ramps, DutchBud ledger seals, forged-seal rejection, and operator quarantine on LAN and WAN regional nodes — with a nod to why ECN lag once mattered on equity venues.
No seal, no tape: DutchBud receipts close the evil-node trade hole
PolitiCap ECN batches now require a DutchBud ledger_ref and ledger_code. Fake SQL on a regional box cannot syndicate without a banking-perimeter seal. Companion to our pull-not-push architecture post.
DutchBud’s monetary first draft: treasury, loans, and our FIAT vs theirs
3DN ships a fintech monetary draft on the DutchBud bank: treasury mint, loans, activity-linked dibs, and trader standing. A clear look at our closed-loop FIAT versus sovereign fiat.
