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Resilience through Fragility — The Paradox of Antifragile Societies

From the fall of Rome to modern markets: why the systems we engineer for perfect stability are the ones most likely to shatter — and what genuinely antifragile societies do differently. As you read, the pillars crumble.

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You Don't Need a Bigger Model, You Need a Better Harness

Everyone's answer to "my model isn't good enough" is the same: reach for a bigger one. This article makes the opposite case — that a small 4B model on a single consumer GPU, wrapped in a well-built custom harness, can rival far larger systems on real tasks at a fraction of the cost.