I’m Miguel — Tech Lead at Dune Analytics. I write about distributed systems, local LLMs, self-hosting, and whatever else I’m currently debugging at 1am.

Most of the writing lives under Posts. Paper notes are under Papers and conference notes under Talks. More about me on the About page.

Recent

• May 2026 — Testing LLMs is hard, doubly hard when the testplan and code are vibecoded
• Apr 2026 — Gemma 4 vs Qwen3.5: benchmarking quantized local LLMs on Go coding
• Feb 2026 — WHY Are Local LLMs So Slow On My Framework 13 AMD Strix Point
• Feb 2026 — I benchmarked 8 local LLMs writing Go on my Framework 13 AMD Strix Point
• 2024 — How we improved Dune API using DuckDB

This blog is my personal site, with my personal opinions.