Two weeks ago I had never run an AI model on my own machine. Every project I had ever built phoned a cloud API with a key sitting in it. Then I sat in the vibecoding lab at AMD's Advancing AI 2026 summit and watched a model answer a question from a laptop, nothing leaving the room, and I got the itch.
I have a pattern. When something lights me up, I chase it before I am ready. This was that. I picked a project that was over my head on purpose, and then I spent a week refusing to put it down.
So before any numbers, here is the crux of it: the numbers are not the point, well kind of they are. The point is that I kept hitting walls and kept going anyway. The rest of this is just how.
I picked a project I had no business starting.
The idea was model archaeology. Take a model from 2019 and a model from 2025, run them both on the same laptop, and measure what six years actually changed. I called it Second Squeeze. Squeeze an old lemon, squeeze a new one, see if the juice is the same.
