Session Report — “higgsfield-claude”

2026-07-16 17:10 (+0800) · repo C:/Users/valte/Code/valter · branch main

Summary

The session ran one youtube-topic-learner cycle on a fresh Wes Roth AI-news video (“INSANE AI News: GPT-RED, Kimi K3, Gemini 3.5 Pro and Anthropic's END GAME”) and, per the user's request, correlated it against the venture portfolio in reports/ventures.json. That produced a wiki source page, a new living topic page with a news-to-venture correlation table, and an auto-generated ai-news-venture-radar skill.

The user then asked to check what open-weight models run offline, which led to an experiment: enabling Ollama's experimental Vulkan backend to offload inference onto the laptop's Intel Arc 140V iGPU. The offload technically worked (49/49 layers on the GPU) but benchmarked ~10–18% slower than CPU — so CPU stays the right default. Ollama was returned to its normal CPU/tray-managed state (briefly complicated by a RAM-thrash, then confirmed back up).

Timeline

  1. Pulled the video's metadata + chapter list via the project yt-dlp; framed topic frontier AI model news… and slug frontier-ai-news.
  2. Ran youtube-topic-learner/harvest.sh --count 0 --include OPuD-UeQGY8 → local download + faster-whisper (small) transcript (~26 min, CPU-only box).
  3. Read the full transcript, corrected Whisper garbles against known names, wrote the source page (rumor + sponsor bias flagged).
  4. Wrote the living topic page incl. the news-item → venture → so-what correlation table against reports/ventures.json.
  5. Auto-wrote the ai-news-venture-radar skill; appended two log.md entries; wired both pages into index.md.
  6. Inventoried offline open-weight models: local Ollama (3 models) + probed terminus GPU box (its Ollama is inside the now-exited tax-rag containers).
  7. Arc 140V offload experiment: CPU baseline → relaunch Ollama with OLLAMA_VULKAN=1 (found Arc but dropped it as iGPU) → add OLLAMA_IGPU_ENABLE=1 (Arc accepted, 49/49 layers offloaded) → benchmark → confirm CPU faster under matched load.
  8. Restored tray-managed CPU Ollama; a transient RAM-thrash stalled process spawning, then curl /api/version confirmed the server answering (v0.32.0).

Benchmark result (the experiment's payload)

ModelCPU (baseline)CPU (matched load)Vulkan / Arc 140VVerdict
llama3.2:3b11.29 tok/s11.13 tok/s9.43 tok/sCPU +18%
qwen2.5:14b2.99 tok/s2.69 tok/s2.44 tok/sCPU +10–22%

Generation tok/s (num_predict=128, temp=0, warm). The Arc 140V is an integrated GPU sharing the CPU's LPDDR5X memory bus, so bandwidth-bound decode gets no advantage and the Vulkan backend only adds dispatch overhead. Full offload was verified in the log (offloaded 49/49 layers to GPU, 8 GB model buffer on Vulkan0). Keep Ollama on CPU on this hardware.

Artifacts produced

FileWhat it is
wiki/…/sources/2026-07-16-wes-roth-insane-ai-news-gpt-red-kimi-anthropic.mdSynthesized source page for the Wes Roth video — all 9 news items, rumor/sponsor bias flagged, name garbles corrected.
wiki/…/topics/Frontier AI News & Model Releases.mdNew living topic: overview of the frontier shifts, an operator's reading playbook, and the news-to-venture correlation table.
~/.claude/skills/ai-news-venture-radar/SKILL.mdNew Claude Code skill (outside repo): turn AI news into venture decisions vs reports/ventures.json. Marked generated-by: youtube-topic-learner.
downloads/learn/frontier-ai-news/Local video corpus: OPuD-UeQGY8.{mp4,txt,srt,vtt,json,summary.md} + manifest.json + ledger.json (from harvest.py).
downloads/learn/frontier-ai-news/bench_ollama.pyReusable deterministic Ollama benchmark via the HTTP API (before/after backend swaps).
…/ollama-vulkan.log, …/ollama-cpu-confirm.logServer logs capturing GPU discovery / offload evidence for the experiment.

Files edited

FileChange
wiki/log.md+2 entries: ingest (Wes Roth video) and synthesize (Frontier AI News tracker + skill).
wiki/index.mdAdded a “Frontier AI news” line under the orgs/valter-silva-au section linking the topic + source.

(The large git status churn in tickets/, backlog.yaml, reports/, tools/ is from other concurrent sessions, not this one — excluded here.)

Key decisions

Tasks

adb was available, but no adb tasks were created or updated this session — the work landed in the wiki + a skill. The correlation relates to existing tickets (TASK-00026, TASK-00010, TASK-00016) without modifying them.

Sources & caveats

Fact sources used this run: git ✓ mtime scan ✓ adb ✓ live Ollama benchmark ✓ gstack stale (last run 2026-07-13) transcript = wrong session.

The recency-picked transcript belonged to a different concurrent session (adb “Start All Tasks” / /ticket), so it was not used — file lists come from git + the mtime scan, and the narrative from this session's own context.

Recap reflects available context + git facts; a long/compacted session may omit earlier steps. File lists are derived from git + mtime, not memory.