Benchmarks

10 posts tagged #benchmarks

10 posts on Benchmarks, spread across LLM Hardware & Local AI (4), AI in Production (3), AI Agents (2) — most read: “9 Picks for the Best Local Model for Agentic Coding [2026]” and “How to Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next 125B in Strata on an RTX 4090”.

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How to Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next 125B in Strata on an RTX 4090

A reproducible Strata setup for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on RTX 4090, plus the KV cache knobs that decide whether you hit ~100 tok/s or hit OOM.

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Kolibri Open Weight Model Benchmark: 1M Context Reality Check [2026]

Aleph Alpha’s Kolibri ships downloadable weights under Apache-2.0 and claims a 1M-token context. Here’s what that changes for EU/on-prem teams and how to benchmark it reproducibly on an A10/A100.

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Intel Arc B‑Series Local LLM Benchmark [2026]: Arc Done Right

A reproducible Intel Arc B‑series local LLM benchmark harness (TTFT, tok/s, VRAM, power), plus a Linux/Windows compatibility matrix and Arc-friendly GGUF quants that won’t OOM at 8K context.

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Mercury 2.5 770 tok/s Benchmark: The Production Playbook

Mercury 2.5 is clocking ~780 tok/s on Artificial Analysis. At that speed, decode stops being your bottleneck. Here’s what actually changes in production: batching, streaming UX, context packing, cost controls, and evals that don’t lie.

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How to Measure AI Coding Agent Harness Overhead

Model wars are a distraction. If you can’t measure prompt scaffolding, repo indexing, context packing, tool calls, and test loops, you’re not benchmarking your coding agent. Here’s a reproducible protocol.

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Prompt Compression Token Savings Benchmark: RTK vs Reality

Token savings are easy to market and hard to bank. Here’s the benchmark framework I trust for RTK-style compression: cost-per-success, tool-call failures, and latency.

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Bun vs Node Performance 2026: Cold Start, Memory, WebSockets

Cold starts and memory decide your infra bill. WebSockets decide your tail latency. Here’s how Bun and Node compare in 2026, with a reproducible harness and deployment math.

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AI Agent Evaluation Framework: 8 Metrics Beyond Task Success

If your agent eval is just “did it finish the task?”, you’re flying blind. Here’s a 2026-ready scorecard for tool correctness, recovery, safety, and cost-per-success—plus a regression suite blueprint you can actually run in CI.

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9 Picks for the Best Local Model for Agentic Coding [2026]

A practical decision tree for agentic coding: pick local models by repo size and VRAM tier (16GB/24GB/48GB+/CPU), with context, tool-calling reliability, and quantization rules that actually hold up.

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Local LLM Benchmark Methodology [2026]: TTFT vs tok/s Done Right

Stop screenshot-benchmarking. Here’s a reproducible local LLM benchmark methodology for 2026 that separates TTFT from throughput and reports rerunnable results.

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