Red Banana Lab
Field Notes
Measured findings from running serious AI on ordinary hardware. Real workloads, planted-answer tests, raw numbers. New Delhi.
No. 2 · Through the NightA 14-hour unattended stress test of a local 120B: 5,095 self-verifying tasks, zero accuracy drift, the empty-answer base rate measured at 1.3%, and the model that invented its own hardware at dawn and then caught itself. 21 Aug 2026.
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.