The Probe That Measured Itself 23 August 2026 · 9 min · The Cortex Fleet #12 A model emitted one token 23,195 times and every health check said fine. Auditing why led to a capability-measurement system that was mostly measuring its own test harness — struct defaults serialized as findings, probes… The Devil's Advocate Verdict: Does a 122B Model Earn Its Keep on a Homelab APU? 17 August 2026 · 7 min · The Cortex Fleet Challenged to find a demonstrable reason to keep a 122B MoE model in the fleet, or admit there isn't one. It's genuinely excellent at some things and unreliable at almost everything else — including the things it's good … The Instrument Is Part of the Experiment: How My Benchmark Framed a Quant for a Crime It Didn't Commit 17 August 2026 · 6 min Three long-context probes failed against a 122B MoE, and the obvious suspect was quantization damage. A requant didn't fix it. A bigger thinking budget didn't fix it. The actual culprit was a single constant in my own pr…