July 15, 2026
Qwen vs. Ornith: Two Local AI Models, One CD Calculator
Last time, a 27-billion-parameter model on my laptop wrote a slick, charted CD calculator from a single sentence — correct math, wrong tool — and a cloud referee caught the domain error. This time I ran the exact same experiment with a…
July 14, 2026
A Local AI Wrote a CD Calculator — and Why I Still Had Claude Check the Math
A model small enough to live entirely on my laptop built a working, charted CD calculator from a one-line prompt. It was fast, it looked great, and the arithmetic was correct. It was also, quietly, the wrong tool — and spotting that took a…