Field Intelligence
Knowledge logs from the field.
Engineering notes, research commentary, and lessons from production deployments.
Isolating AI Coding Agents on Bare Metal: Incus, Podman, and a $50/Month Server
How Singular uses system containers, rootless Podman, and declarative YAML configs to run isolated, multi-project AI agent environments on a single $50/month bare-metal server.
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Notes: Defeating Non-Determinism in LLM Inference
Study notes on why LLMs produce different outputs for the same prompt—even at temperature 0—and the batch invariance solutions that achieve 100% reproducibility.
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Instruction fine-tuning Llama 2 with PEFT's QLoRa method
In this blog post, we will discuss how to fine-tune Llama 2 7B pre-trained model using the PEFT library and QLoRa method. We'll use a custom instructional dataset to build a sentiment analysis model.
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The Agency Tax: Red Flags Before You Sign
We've watched companies burn seven figures on bloated teams, missed deadlines, and code that crumbles under load. Here's what to look for before you sign—and why the traditional agency model is structurally broken.
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