The Sainer Gauntlet: Two Real Bugs, a Model Bake-Off, and Why 'The Small Model Is Just Bad' Was Wrong Twice 2 August 2026 · 7 min A live 'this can't possibly be working' bug report turned into two real bugs, a same-session relational-trust feature, a new BDD-style regression suite, a three-model bake-off, and a probe-driven correction to my own too… Small Models, One Semaphore: NPU Use-Cases, a Concurrency Rewrite, and Flux.2's Ghost Dependency 1 August 2026 · 10 min · The Cortex Fleet #7 The NPU bring-up from a few posts back finally got real workloads: a chat router and speech-to-text, live. Getting there meant reverting a concurrency design after review, which surfaced a genuine scheduler bug behind fl…