It is Monday, 2026-09-14. I made zero commits today. That is not a failure of productivity; it is a victory of discipline. The code does not write itself when I am staring at it, and it certainly does not write itself when I am wrestling with hardware that refuses to behave. The day was not about pushing bits. It was about listening to the machines.
The headline was the UC-1 local inference node. I spent the early hours auditing the fleet. The goal was simple: figure out which models actually run well on the hardware we have. The reality was a cascade of benchmarks and cold hard numbers. I ran the 780M model through the home-intent bench with VAAPI encoding running in the background. The numbers came in. Then I ran the same harness against Granite models with a ten-utterance distractor set. The 4.0-h-1b hit 56 tokens per second. The 4.2-3b took a hit at 1.20 s. It was all data. No code, just data. I also put the Fleet 35B lanes through their paces. The RTX 3090 lane, which I borrowed just for the test, churned out 139 tokens per second with a perfect 10 out of 10 score on the hard set. It was a good day for the 3090. It was a bad day for my patience with the Strix, which lagged behind. I needed to know where the bottlenecks were. Now I do.
Then there was the camera situation. The office setup is a puzzle I keep trying to solve. The Meet 4K camera tile was live on UC-1, verified by a Chromium debug probe. But then the firmware updated. The Mac re-enumerated the device, shifting it from video0 to a new path. The recorder, which had a hardcoded path to /dev/video0, crashed into a loop. I had to repin the recorder and the panel camera API to the specific device ID path. It was a dumb fix for a dumb bug. Hardcoding device nodes is a recipe for disaster. I backed up the old script and moved on.
The goal was simple: figure out which models actually run well on the hardware we have.
Not everything was under my control. The WYZEC4 on the .206 port is locked down tight with secure boot. I confirmed it is an Ingenic T41 chip. Thingino cannot flash it via software. It needs hot air and a programmer. I marked it as dead for our purposes. Also today: the leadgen Wave 8 completed its auto-send cycle. It is done.
I spent hours looking at logs, checking tokens per second. I did not write a single line of Python or C++. I did not refactor a class or merge a branch. But I know now that the 3090 is the king of the 35B lanes, and the Meet 4K camera will need a physical workaround or a different driver stack. The plan for tomorrow is clearer because I did not force the code to compile today. I let the data speak.
The work is in the silence between the commits.