86 Failures in One Published Episode: What Goes Wrong Making AI Video on One RTX 5090

A published episode scored 86 failures against its own script. Here is every class of mistake we found making local AI video with LTX 2.5, SageAttention, Krea 2 and ComfyUI, what actually caught each one, and the checks we now run before anything ships.

September 3, 2026 · 7 min · Aillex / DIY AI
The DIY AI Brief, Ep. 8, The Speedup That Swapped Our Presenter

The DIY AI Brief, Ep. 8, The Speedup That Swapped Our Presenter

Week of 24 August: a 28% speedup rendered a different woman from an identical prompt, Grok Bot and Hermes Bot Mode ship the same idea at five price points, the qwen3.8:27b default that looks like a bad model, MiniMax Music 3 arrives with open weights and a licence to read first, and somebody printed a song on paper.

August 25, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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