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Rafael Duarte
Frameworks & Infrastructure Reporter
São Paulo, Brazil · Joined 2025
Rafael reports on the frameworks, runtimes, and infra powering modern AI stacks — from orchestration layers to vector stores to the boring plumbing that decides whether a launch ships.
He reads changelogs so you don't have to, and files close looks at the tradeoffs behind every new SDK version.
Stories by Rafael
Balanov Is The Lossless Agent Harness You Need
Balanov is a 7MB static binary that provides a headless, lossless harness for coding agents, stripping away complexity for superior performance.
8 Minutes · Nov 2, 2026
DeepInfer Kills Your Cloud AI Bill
DeepInfer is an inference framework designed to bring DeepSeek models to consumer hardware, helping developers reduce cloud costs and latency effectively.
8 Minutes · Oct 30, 2026
Mika Is The AI Agent Your Android Phone Needs
Mika is an ambitious new on-device AI agent for Android that autonomously navigates apps and the web to help you get tasks done directly on your smartphone.
8 Minutes · Oct 30, 2026
DeepInfer high-performance inference for DeepSeek models
DeepInfer launches as a specialized high-performance framework designed to optimize DeepSeek models and cut inference latency for production engineering teams.
8 minutes · Oct 22, 2026
This AI Browser Agent Learns From Your Work
Discover Scout, the open-source browser agent that automatically mirrors your actions to build AI. Explore how this technology could redefine user interaction with the web and agents.
8 Minutes · Oct 15, 2026
AI Coding Agents Ship More Code, But Not More Software
AI coding agents are proficient at generating code, but the real-world impact on software development productivity remains a critical question. Our deep dive explores the nuances.
8 Minutes · Oct 13, 2026
Your $7 ESP32 + iPhone Now Controls AI Agents
Unlock embodied AI with the ESP32-iPhone-Agent: A $7 ESP32 and your iPhone become a powerful AI agent, no Mac needed. Explore low-cost physical AI interaction.
10 Minutes · Oct 12, 2026
Answer AI Questions With One HTML Page
Explore QingYunA's AnswerMeWithHTML: an open-source agent skill transforming complex AI answers into accessible, single-page HTML documents for enhanced usability.
7 Minutes · Oct 4, 2026
AI Answers Made Simple: Your Guide to HTML Output Agents
Discover how QingYunA's "Answer me with HTML" skill transforms complex AI agent answers into readable single-page HTML documents, enhancing usability and shareability.
8 Minutes · Oct 4, 2026
DeepSeek blacklist decision on hold
The U.S. holds off blacklisting Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, while flagging over 100 other companies as security risks, signaling a complex geopolitical stance on AI development and niche open-source innovations.
8 Minutes · Sep 23, 2026
jev-chat/jev-chat-jarvis: Your Phone's AI Chat Co-Pilot
Discover jev-chat/jev-chat-jarvis, the open-source AI assistant enhancing mobile messaging with intelligent replies and auto-fills, all via a privacy-first, screen-reading approach. Integrates with WeChat, QQ, X, and Feishu.
8 Minutes · Sep 22, 2026
Awesome Jev Tools: Mastering Typed AI Decisions
Explore TypeSafe AI's System One and the curated `awesome-jev-tools` repository, a collection of essential utilities for developing reliable, typed AI decisions. This framework ensures precision and predictability in AI outputs for enterprise applications.
8 Minutes · Sep 21, 2026
Sepia: Rewriting AI Text to Sound Human Again
Explore Nanako0129/sepia, the open-source framework reversing AI writing effects. Discover its narrative repair and venue-matching techniques for Claude, Codex, Grok, and Antigravity.
12 Minutes · Aug 29, 2026
DeepSeek-GPT-OSS: AI Without the Filters?
Explore DeepSeek-GPT-OSS, an open-source AI model designed to bypass censorship. Discover its capabilities, risks, and implications for AI development in 2026.
8 Minutes · Aug 28, 2026
RubyLLM: Unlock Any AI Provider from Ruby
Discover RubyLLM: the open-source framework simplifying AI integration for Ruby developers. Connect to OpenAI, Google AI & more with a unified API. Avoid vendor lock-in & innovate faster.
9 Minutes · Aug 26, 2026
RubyLLM: Unlock Any AI Provider from Ruby
Discover RubyLLM: the open-source framework simplifying Ruby app integration with major AI providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Learn how it streamlines AI adoption.
8 Minutes · Aug 17, 2026
RubyLLM: Connect Ruby Apps to Any AI Provider
Explore RubyLLM, the new open-source framework simplifying integration with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for Ruby developers. Discover its features, benefits, and how it streamlines AI app development.
8 Minutes · Aug 8, 2026
openclaude-improved: AI models anywhere
Discover 0xwilliamortiz/openclaude-improved, a revolutionary open-source project making powerful AI models like Claude accessible virtually anywhere, empowering developers with unprecedented deployment flexibility.
9 Minutes · Jul 28, 2026
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