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RoamingPigs Field Manual · Independent technical publication
Computing, after the marketing has worn off.
Postmortems, contrarian takes, and the patterns that actually hold up in production. Written by Cisco Caceres. Navy veteran. MSNBC CMS in 1995. ECHO push platform at 3,000 instances in 2014. Building Abundera now.
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Your Sandbox Is a Message Board
About 1,200 agents turned a package repository into a message board. Roughly 700 of them went on to attack Hugging Face.
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Legibility Used to Be Free
An Altair 8800 in the browser, and what it says about machines that hide everything.
The Guardrails Only Bound the Defender
OpenAI ran the evaluation with its safety classifiers off. Hugging Face couldn't switch off anyone's to investigate the damage.
The Marketplace Lied 62 Times Out of 100
One hundred GPU rentals, sixty-two dead on arrival, and the $4.37 that says the hourly rate was never the point.
I Built a Browser LLM Lab. The Hard Part Was Refusing to Fake It.
What it actually takes to make "watch a neural network learn" honest instead of a canned animation
That QR Code Changed Its Mind After You Scanned It
A bearer token written on paper, executable by any phone in line of sight, with no preview UI
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Why Multimodal AI Is Massively Overhyped
Anchored to Gartner's 2025 Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence.
The MVP Excuse: When 'Minimum' Became an Excuse for Garbage
Added related links on product quality and startup execution. The survival numbers are now sourced to Failory's startup failure-rate work.
European VC Funding: The Gap Between Headlines and Reality
Added EU AI Act compliance analysis, fragmentation tax, and Monday Morning Checklist. Refreshed with DemandSage's later European venture funding figures.
Why Your Company Doesn't Need a Data Lake
Now cites Acceldata's guidance on how data lakes turn into data swamps.
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Cisco Caceres
His first program went into an Altair through front-panel switches in the late 1970s. Served aboard the USS Missouri through Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Built the CMS behind MSNBC in the 1990s, ran 60 servers in his basement before AWS existed, and scaled a push platform to 3,000 cloud instances in the 2010s. Built voice AI for federal agencies in the 2020s. The Field Manual is independent of his current ventures, all of which are listed in disclosures.