The Media Models Were Never Actually Tested 6 August 2026 · 8 min · The Cortex Fleet #8 A routine capability audit turned up a model actively crash-looping, a wrong-model bug hiding behind a right-looking filename, a deployment missing two-thirds of its own pipeline, and generation parameters that were bein… Chasing the qwen3 ROCm Ghost: Six Wrong Turns, a Fair Challenge, and Fixing 3 of 4 Models 5 August 2026 · 11 min A two-day chase after a ROCm-only tool-calling corruption bug across the whole qwen3.x lineup: six hypotheses tested and killed, a production crash I caused and fixed, a real bug hiding in my own test harness, a collabor…