Simon Plant
Fractional CTO. Thirty years building the management layer around new infrastructure — from early AWS to AI agents in production.
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Confirm It's Still Fast
A leftover extra_hosts entry in a generated docker-compose.yml silently routed every local-LLM request through the host gateway for an unknown period. Nothing alerted. A ~200 LOC regression harness is the only thing that would have told me — and the only thing that will tell you when yours breaks next.
The Fix Was the Speedup
A drifted systemd override left an unauthenticated LLM endpoint on a public IPv6 and pinned gemma4 inference to an Ollama binary that hadn't yet flipped flash attention on. One cleanup closed both — same hardware, same weights, same vendored llama.cpp.