negative-results

12 posts tagged “negative-results”.

1. The Chat Template Ignored enable_thinking (2026-09-25)
2. Two Crash Fixes That Cost Throughput and Fixed Nothing (2026-09-25)
3. Every Sub-4-Bit Number We Had Was Uncalibrated (2026-09-19)
4. We Published a 36% Speedup and Withdrew It the Next Day (2026-09-19)
5. Our Two Machines Ran Different Models Under the Same Name (2026-09-18)
6. Five Kernel Ideas That Measured Neutral or Worse (2026-09-12)
7. We Evaluated a Faster Inference Engine and Rejected It (2026-09-03)
8. The Fine-Tune Was Dead Weight. The Reference Clip Was Doing the Work. (2026-08-19)
9. One Slow Request Locks Out Everything Else (2026-08-17)
10. You Can't Prompt Your Way to Both Commitment and Abstention (2026-08-11)
11. We Spent a Week Tuning Prefill. The Bottleneck Was Decode. (2026-08-11)
12. The Benchmark Said 18%. Production Said 0.07%. (2026-08-10)