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Aggregate accuracy hides the failures that matter: a model at 78% average may still leak data in 4% of episodes, and benchmark compression preferentially discards those (arXiv 2609.14976). Five risk categories, stale facts, conflicting updates, cross-user leakage, revoked-memory reuse and constraint decay, operationalized as deterministic trace-grounded checks over a 120-episode scripted benchmark on five locally run quantized models. Its coverage-constrained greedy selector keeps full ranking (Spearman rho 0.975), risk coverage 1.0 and high-risk detection 1.0 at 20% subset size, cutting eval compute 5x.
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After 20+ years maintaining Paint.NET, Rick Brewster concluded WINE's Direct2D would never be complete enough for what he needed, so the app now carries its own from-scratch reverse-engineered Direct2D implementation. He puts it at 180,000 lines against 700,000 for the rest of...
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0.35 adds gpt-6-astra to the CLI's OpenAI provider, so llm -m gpt-6-astra works against the same logging, template and fragment machinery as every other model in the tool. For anyone scripting cross-model evals, that means a new frontier model needs zero new plumbing to enter...
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