Kirsten Ruge
Current project
A benchmark in development: can coding agents write the tools they need to operate a robot?
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Eighty-eight completely fabricated Hopper-adjacent sayings by Kirsten Ruge, drafted with Codex, Claude Fable 5.1, and GLM-5.2—historically disclaimed and spiritually plausible.
18 min readGoogle shipped Gemma 4 assistant drafters, SGLang merged Frozen-KV MTP support, and a single B300 turned it into a real 1.6x decode-speed win.
6 min readNVIDIA dropped a 31B activated-multimodal model with video, audio, image, OCR, GUI, tool-calling, and long-context support. That sounds suspiciously close to a pair-programming onboarding primitive.
4 min readThis week’s frontier-model-in-a-small-Blackwell-shaped-box experiment ended with a useful answer: yes, Kimi K2.6 can fit, but only if you stop acting like the box is an H200.
3 min readKirsten Ruge’s home for independent ML research, open-source projects, and writing about what she’s learning along the way.
Sometimes that means robot kitchens and model-serving experiments. Sometimes it means a podcast about whether an AI meant to make that joke.
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