Go finally gets SIMD in 1.26

Go 1.26 shipped simd/archsimd behind GOEXPERIMENT=simd, giving Go native SIMD intrinsics for the first time. I tried it on a real data structure to see what it feels like in practice.

March 20, 2026 · 4 min · Sam Batschelet

Fine-tuning a Go expert: does it actually work? (Part 2)

The v2 adapter trained overnight on 41k samples. Loss 0.918, accuracy 82.7%. I loaded it into vLLM and ran the same prompts. Here’s what came out.

March 19, 2026 · 6 min · Sam Batschelet

Fine-tuning a Go expert: LoRA on a $300 GPU (Part 1)

I trained a LoRA adapter on 41k Go code examples from the Kubernetes and etcd source trees. The first run produced 600 tab characters. Here’s what I learned.

March 18, 2026 · 8 min · Sam Batschelet