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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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May 16, 2026 · 10 min read

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.

April 18, 2026 · 6 min read

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.

April 18, 2026 · 9 min read
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