• 2026-03-15

  I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab From Marketing Photos. Here's Why Your $1,400 Is Probably Gone.

  A $1.7M Kickstarter built on forked academic research, undisclosed MoE architectures, split memory pools behind PCIe bottlenecks, and a company that won't tell you who they are. I did the math. The math doesn't care.

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• 2026-03-11

  I Bought a $450 Coding Toy for My Kids. Then I Opened It Up.

  Cubetto promised screen-free coding for toddlers. What I found inside was a cheap BLE SoC, a Darlington array pretending to be a motor driver, hall effect sensors instead of NFC, and a company that quietly abandoned everything that made the product worth buying.

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• 2026-03-04

  I Bought NVIDIA's $4,000 'AI Supercomputer.' Then I Sold It.

  The DGX Spark promised local AI inference for developers. After five months of real workloads, a kneecapped memory bus, a broken software stack, and an architecture that NVIDIA couldn't be bothered to support, I sold it and ordered an M3 Ultra Mac Studio instead. Here's what I learned about bandwidth, business models, and who's actually building the future of local AI.

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