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Technical field notes on websites, automation, AI-assisted delivery, product work, and the systems behind Canopy Digital.

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A considered selection of recent work, observations, and practical discoveries from the Canopy Digital team.

AI operations

Is GPT-6 Luna as Smart as Sol? The Benchmark Says: Sometimes

A Reddit post says Luna Max can rival Sol High on DeepSWE. OpenAI's wider benchmark results show a narrower truth: near-parity on one hard coding test, lower task cost, and meaningful gaps elsewhere.

  • AI operations
AI operations

PocketMic 0.1.5: Opus Audio, Smarter Buffering

PocketMic LAN 0.1.5 pairs Opus audio with adaptive jitter handling. Its release links now match the published assets, with artifact integrity checked and live-device tests still open.

  • AI operations
AI operations

The Model Is Only Half the Product

The latest AI model news is less about one benchmark winner and more about the system around the model: agentic research, safety measurement, sovereign infrastructure, and free-model distribution.

  • AI operations
AI operations

My Cat Ate the Microphone, So I Built PocketMic LAN

A practical build note on PocketMic LAN: turning an Android phone into an encrypted Windows microphone over a private LAN, with QR pairing, authenticated UDP audio, and an honest release boundary.

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