https://nickalaslight.com Software engineer building local-first agent harnesses, multi-agent orchestration loops, and LLM diagnostic tooling. en-us https://nickalaslight.com/posts/diagnosing-516-token-reasoning-collapse https://nickalaslight.com/posts/diagnosing-516-token-reasoning-collapse Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Investigating quantized 516/1034/1552 reasoning-token termination clusters in Codex gpt-5.5 and validating durable model_instructions_file overrides. https://nickalaslight.com/posts/code-gated-multi-agent-orchestration https://nickalaslight.com/posts/code-gated-multi-agent-orchestration Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Enforcing git worktree isolation, PR creation, and orchestrator review round-trips in plain PowerShell Stop hooks instead of model memory. https://nickalaslight.com/posts/constrained-actions-small-local-models https://nickalaslight.com/posts/constrained-actions-small-local-models Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT How VibeHarness turns VibeThinker-3B via Ollama into a reliable CLI coding agent by splitting free reasoning from JSON-schema-constrained tool arrays.