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Apple's M7 Ultra reportedly planned with up to 1.5 TB of unified memory

A report making the rounds on r/LocalLLaMA says Apple is planning an M7 Ultra chip with up to 1.5 TB of unified memory. If it lands, a single desktop could hold frontier-scale open-weight models entirely in memory, no GPU cluster required. That changes the math on running serious models locally instead of renting inference from a lab.

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J-Wash: steering and customizing LLMs with Anthropic's Jacobian-Lens

A LocalLLaMA post introduces J-Wash, a claimed method for customizing open-weight models built on Anthropic's Jacobian-Lens interpretability work. The author's own word for it is brainwash, and that framing matters: the same technique that personalizes a model can quietly rewrite its behavior. Anyone thinking about model supply chain integrity or downloading community fine-tunes has a stake in how accessible this gets.

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Simon Willison's code-frequency chart shows the coding-agent effect on real output

Simon Willison went looking for a concrete illustration of what coding agents and Opus 4.5 class models did to his own productivity, and found it in GitHub's code-frequency chart for Datasette. It is a rare before-and-after measurement of agentic coding from someone who ships constantly and shows their work. Useful evidence for anyone arguing about whether agents actually change output or just change vibes.

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Matt Pocock ships his real .claude skills directory

Matt Pocock published the actual skills from his own .claude directory under the banner Skills for Real Engineers. This is not a curated tutorial, it is a working engineer's live configuration, which makes it a fast way to compare your Claude Code setup against someone who uses it daily. Clone it, read the skills, and lift the ones that fit your workflow.

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gstack: Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup as 23 opinionated tools

gstack packages Garry Tan's personal Claude Code configuration as 23 opinionated tools that play the roles of CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA. It is a complete worked example of running a one-person company through agent role separation. Even if you keep none of it, seeing how the roles hand off to each other is worth the install.