Red Banana Lab

Field Notes

Measured findings from running serious AI on ordinary hardware. Real workloads, planted-answer tests, raw numbers. New Delhi.

No. 1 · Three Brains, One LaptopServing 80B to 235B models on AMD Strix Halo: a three-way shootout, the empty-answer reasoning-channel trap, honesty under quantisation, and two boot-time pathologies. 19 Aug 2026.