SWE-bench Verified Audit: Why 65% Scores Fail in Prod
When autonomous coding agents scaled to frontier reasoning models, industry leaderboards celebrated a major milestone: 65% resolve rates on SWE-bench…
EyesTech: Frontier AI, Silicon & Defence Technology
Independent analysis, benchmarks, and field intelligence on AI models, chips, computing, and defence systems.
DeepSeek GRPO vs PPO: How RLVR Cuts Critic VRAM by 50%
Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) to multi-thousand-token reasoning models encountered an insurmountable systems bottleneck: the Actor-Critic memory wall….
DeepSeek Isn’t Subsidizing Tokens. You’re Just Getting Ripped Off by American Clouds.
Forensic investigation into DeepSeek’s unit economics: why no Western cloud could match the pre-August $0.28 price, why DeepSeek temporarily hiked rates on August 16 after an 8-trillion-token surge, how V4.1-Flash’s 890-byte CED attention enables Western startups to hit $0.66 profitably today, and why American Big Tech hyperscalers charge a 4,000% markup to service legacy debt.
The $200 Subscription Arbitrage: Why OpenAI Paused ChatGPT Pro Sign-Ups and the Real Economics of GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI has paused new sign-ups and upgrades for the $200/mo ChatGPT Pro tier as power users leveraging the 20X token capacity multiplier on GPT-6 Astra burn through 15M to 30M reasoning tokens per month, creating up to a -$1,240/month deficit per seat.
Claude Code Token Compromise & Hook Hijacking: Auditing CVE-2026-21852, Base URL Redirection, and the Pre-Trust Execution Surface
A technical audit of Anthropic’s Claude Code vulnerabilities CVE-2026-21852 and CVE-2025-59536. We dissect pre-trust Base URL credential exfiltration, SessionStart hook code execution, Linux plaintext token leakage, and introduce a 4-tier eBPF zero-trust isolation blueprint.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Hexagon NPU vs. Apple A20 Pro: Micro-Benchmarking On-Device INT8 Vision-Language Pipelines
An exhaustive architectural audit comparing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Hexagon NPU against Apple’s A20 Pro 32-core Neural Engine running on-device INT8 Vision-Language Models (MiniCPM-V 2.6, Llama 3.2-Vision, and Qwen2-VL).
Vector Indexing at Scale: HNSW vs. IVF-PQ in 100M-Vector Repositories
An empirical systems audit of HNSW vs. IVF-PQ indexing across 100 million 1536-dimensional vectors. Benchmarking Qdrant, OpenSearch, Milvus, and Faiss on RAM footprint, Recall@10, QPS throughput, and NVMe disk-spilling economics.
Is DeepSWE v1.1 Also Cracked? Inside the 74% Frontier Convergence and Test-Time Compute Subsidy
Technical benchmark audit of DeepSWE v1.1 by Aditi Sharma. Debunking git reflog leaks and test tampering, while exposing how 166-turn Test-Time Compute subsidizes 74% Pass@1 rates.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash vs Gemini 3.8 Flash: The Ultimate Architectural and Economic Showdown of 2026
Within eight days in early September 2026, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash toppled previous-generation $90/M-token flagship models on DeepSWE v1.1. Here is the forensic engineering breakdown: 890-byte KV cache, CED topology, RLVR benchmaxxing, and real-world agent TCO.
The 890-Byte Collapse: Inside DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash’s Asymmetric CED Architecture & The Death of the Pro Tier
At 11:40 AM on September 10, 2026, DeepSeek dropped what may be the most consequential architectural disruption of the post-transformer…