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The Sand Paper

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A Journal of Intelligence Transfer
Lead Story · Industry

OpenAI’s Discounts Pull Coding Work at Rippling and Replit From Anthropic

Rippling’s OpenAI share rose from 16% to 52% since May, The Information reports; Replit got over 30% off.

OpenAI is winning over Anthropic customers with steep discounts, @kimmonismus writes, gaining coding workloads at companies like Rippling and Replit. @choblin29 sums up The Information’s report. Replit moved most of its AI spending to OpenAI after getting more than 30% off a contract worth more than $100 million a year. Anthropic had refused to extend Replit’s previous discount unless it committed to spending more.

From posts by @kimmonismus, @choblin29, @amir, @DYoung_AI, @ahameddolonRead the story
Morning Feature · The Local AI Desk

Sparks Update: DeepSeek-1017 on Two Sparks Against Four, and GLM-5.3-Flash Measured

One builder ran the same agent prompt on two and four Sparks, GLM-5.3-Flash got a full two-Spark workup, and MiniMax went under Kubernetes on four.

DeepSeek-1017 built the same voxel world in 73.7 min on two Sparks and 49.7 min on four, on different quants. Plus GLM-5.3-Flash and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on two Sparks, MiniMax-M3.1-Flash on four, TensorFold 1.1.4 and runs off the Sparks.

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Agents & Coding

Cognition’s Free Skills Patch This Week’s PHP, Node and GitLab Flaws

Three SKILL.md files inventory your repos read-only, wait for approval, then open one pull request per repo.

@Marktechpost reports that Cognition open-sourced its Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin: three agent skills for PHP2Shell, the Oct. 21 Node.js release and GitLab CVE-2026-110264. Cognition’s blog lays out the flow: a read-only inventory, your approval, a patch to a verified fixed version, tests before and after, then one PR per repo.

From posts by and reports from @Marktechpost, Cognition: Vulnerability Fixes plugin, Cognition: Patch critical vulnerabilities, CognitionAI/devin-vuln-fixesRead the story

@clairevo Moves 80% of Her Personal Coding to Claude Code and Opus 5.5

Claude Code projects and less front-end slop won her over; she still rates Codex the better harness overall.

@clairevo says she has moved 80% of her personal coding to Claude Code with Opus 5.5. Her reasons: Claude Code projects is “goated,” she can no longer press “steer” in Codex, and there is less front-end slop.

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@poteto Expects Agent Skills to Shrink Into Saved Prompts

He keeps simplifying pstack as models improve; his guide covers over- and under-guiding an agent.

@rauchg writes that sometimes you over-guide the AI and sometimes you under-guide it, and managing that is “the #0 skill I look for.” @poteto replies that he wrote about this in his pstack guide.

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@mattpocockuk: Teach Techniques That Work in Any Harness

His best year for courses came from harness-, model- and language-agnostic lessons; Total TypeScript sales fell.

@mattpocockuk says this has been his best year selling self-paced video courses, 98% of his income since 2022. What is worth learning now, he argues, are techniques that are harness-agnostic, model-agnostic and language-agnostic, such as module design and test quality.

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@doodlestein Runs Nearly 1T Tokens and 50,000 Commits a Month

Skills provision his Linux machines and run his builds; plans become beads in a JSONL file for a model swarm.

@doodlestein says he is at nearly 1T tokens per month and 50k+ commits per month across everything. Skills provision his Linux machines identically through his acfs tool, and his rch and dsr tools and their skills handle builds.

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Models & Hardware

GLM-5.3-Flash on Two Sparks: 49.9 Tok/s and a Sky Kingdom in 71.1 Minutes

@niklaslenz_ai measured @MiaAI_lab’s recipe on the TensorFold Python engine; her Zig branch was slower.

@niklaslenz_ai ran GLM-5.3-Flash on two Sparks with @MiaAI_lab’s recipe: a 4 bpw EXL3 quant split across both (TP2) with a DFlash2 draft model. He measured 51.2 tok/s on code, 48.6 on prose and 99.2 tok/s total at eight requests.

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Three Engines on One RTX 5090: TensorFold Runs Qwen3.8-27B at 268.2 Tok/s

NInfer leads at eight requests with 711.9 tok/s total; @MiaAI_lab’s one-click kit runs on 16 GB and 32 GB cards.

@niklaslenz_ai ran Qwen3.8-27B on one RTX 5090 with three engines and the same airship-dock prompt. @BobClawblaw’s TensorFold recipe with DFlash2 decoded code at 268.2 tok/s, Neroued’s NInfer at 169.0 and @MiaAI_lab’s kit at 154.5.

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MiniMax-M3.1-Flash Runs on Four Sparks Under Kubernetes at 59 Tok/s

@NftHoss serves 1M context with SGLang over a switchless RoCE ring; @jayleaton’s two-Spark quant is done.

@NftHoss runs MiniMax-M3.1-Flash on four Sparks with SGLang at TP4 over a switchless RoCE ring, at the checkpoint’s full 1,048,576-token context. He measured 59.0 tok/s single-stream and 122.9 tok/s across six concurrent streams, with prefill at 1,121 tok/s at 32k.

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vLLM Says It Matches DeepSeek’s Own Engine on V4.1-Flash Decode

Within 6% of DeepInfer from batch 8 to 256, its blog says; one GB300 NVL72 rack reaches 954K tokens/s per GPU.

@vllm_project says vLLM matches DeepInfer, DeepSeek’s own engine for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, on DeepSeek’s decode configuration from batch 8 to 256, at DEP32 against DeepInfer’s EP64DP64. Its blog puts decode within 6% at 131K context.

From posts by and reports from @vllm_project, @NeoAIForecast, @MiaAI_lab, vLLM blogRead the story

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Runs on a Mac at 42.0 Tok/s With oMLX

The bundled DSpark draft lifts one request on an M3 Ultra from 22.5 tok/s, an 87% gain, @jundotkim says.

@jundotkim’s oMLX 0.7.3.dev1 runs MiniMax M3.1 Flash on Macs. With its bundled DSpark draft running as Lightning MTP, one request on an M3 Ultra with the oQ4e quant goes from 22.5 to 42.0 tok/s (+87%), and new fused decode kernels add another 6-7%.

From posts by and reports from @jundotkim, oMLX 0.7.3.dev1 release notesRead the story

AI in Accounting & Tax

No new AI accounting or tax dispatches from our sources in this edition. Accounting Today’s only post since Saturday morning re-shared its tech roundup on Tipalti’s AP agent and Empty Spaces, which Friday afternoon’s edition covered.

Industry

Altman Tells OpenAI Staff the Industry Needs Ways to Slow Dangerous AI

His paths include international regulation, merging leading labs or letting one company dominate compute.

Sam Altman told OpenAI employees that the industry needs better ways to slow the development of potentially dangerous AI, @theinformation reports. His proposed paths include international regulation, merging leading AI labs or allowing one company to dominate computing resources.

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The Creator of Claude Code on Desktop Leaves Anthropic

@amorriscode calls it the hardest move of his career and will share what is next soon.

@amorriscode wrote on Saturday that his last day at Anthropic was the day before. He created Claude Code on desktop, he says, because he believes “everyone can be a builder.”

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