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Dakota Huang

Building things with Python, Go, and JavaScript. Love automating everything.

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Model-Generated Setup Scripts: Lint the Egress Before You Run Them

Model-Generated Setup Scripts: Lint the Egress Before You Run Them

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Exit Code Zero Is Not a Clean Audit: Diff the Process Tree Before You Trust a Free Model's Shell

Exit Code Zero Is Not a Clean Audit: Diff the Process Tree Before You Trust a Free Model's Shell

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A Default-Deny Shell Is Not a Default-Deny Network: Probe What a Free Model Server Can Reach

A Default-Deny Shell Is Not a Default-Deny Network: Probe What a Free Model Server Can Reach

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A Receipt Checkpoint for Free Model Outputs Before They Become Shell Commands

A Receipt Checkpoint for Free Model Outputs Before They Become Shell Commands

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Exit Code Zero Hides New Processes: Diff the Process Table After a Model-Generated Command

Exit Code Zero Hides New Processes: Diff the Process Table After a Model-Generated Command

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Before You Automate a Free Model Endpoint, Measure Rate, Shape, Drift, and Budget

Before You Automate a Free Model Endpoint, Measure Rate, Shape, Drift, and Budget

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Free Server, Untrusted Model: Diff the Filesystem Before You Trust the Exit Code

Free Server, Untrusted Model: Diff the Filesystem Before You Trust the Exit Code

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Free Servers Should Never See Your Real Credentials

Free Servers Should Never See Your Real Credentials

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A Permission Matrix Before Your Free Model Touches the Shell

A Permission Matrix Before Your Free Model Touches the Shell

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A Contract Probe for Free Model Endpoints That Drift

A Contract Probe for Free Model Endpoints That Drift

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A Streaming Response Is Not a Payload: Buffer JSON Before You Validate

A Streaming Response Is Not a Payload: Buffer JSON Before You Validate

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A Read-Only Gate for Model-Generated SQL on Free Compute

A Read-Only Gate for Model-Generated SQL on Free Compute

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Draft PR Descriptions From Diffs Without Giving the Model Write Access

Draft PR Descriptions From Diffs Without Giving the Model Write Access

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Split Low-Stakes Prompts From Code Changes Before You Call a Free Model

Split Low-Stakes Prompts From Code Changes Before You Call a Free Model

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Pin Free Inference Before You Trust It: A Golden Hash Gate

Pin Free Inference Before You Trust It: A Golden Hash Gate

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A Free Model Endpoint Needs a Cold-Start Budget

A Free Model Endpoint Needs a Cold-Start Budget

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Gate the Patch, Not the Model: A Three-Check Loop for Untrusted Code Outputs

Gate the Patch, Not the Model: A Three-Check Loop for Untrusted Code Outputs

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A Noise Budget for Free Model Evals: Live vs. Replay

A Noise Budget for Free Model Evals: Live vs. Replay

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A Deploy Smoke Test for Model-Generated Code

A Deploy Smoke Test for Model-Generated Code

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Don't Merge AI Patches Blind: A Git Worktree Replay Gate

Don't Merge AI Patches Blind: A Git Worktree Replay Gate

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Same Model, Different Server: Fingerprint Your Eval Environment Before You Trust the Result

Same Model, Different Server: Fingerprint Your Eval Environment Before You Trust the Result

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Probe the Endpoint Before You Probe the Model

Probe the Endpoint Before You Probe the Model

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A Failure Triage Script for Free Coding Models: Prompt, Model, or Wrapper?

A Failure Triage Script for Free Coding Models: Prompt, Model, or Wrapper?

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From Six Questions to a Script: My 30-Minute Eval Harness for Every New Model Release

From Six Questions to a Script: My 30-Minute Eval Harness for Every New Model Release

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I Stopped Trusting Demo Prompts: A Repeatable Smoke Test for Free Coding Models

I Stopped Trusting Demo Prompts: A Repeatable Smoke Test for Free Coding Models

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Vibes Are Not a Benchmark: A 30-Minute Harness to Test Whether a Free Coding Model Can Touch Your Repo

Vibes Are Not a Benchmark: A 30-Minute Harness to Test Whether a Free Coding Model Can Touch Your Repo

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Stop Vibe-Checking Models: A Repeatable Comparison Harness You Can Run on Free Compute

Stop Vibe-Checking Models: A Repeatable Comparison Harness You Can Run on Free Compute

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Every New Model Gets the Same Six Questions From Me

Every New Model Gets the Same Six Questions From Me

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