Ben Santora

Ben Santora @ben-santora

About: Linux OS - SLM and LLM Testing - Engineering Technician - Technology Writer

Location:
Beverly MA
Joined:
Jan 1, 2026

Ben Santora
articles - 10 total

Optimizing Your GitHub Site for GEO

In 2026, the methods of online search have begun to shift from ranking links to interacting with...

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LinkedIn is Microsoft Infrastructure

Originally, the LinkedIn platform functioned effectively as what it was created to be — a...

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Native Inference: Testing an SLM on C Pointer Logic

I recently installed llama-cli on my Linux Debian laptop. Rather than using wrappers like lmstudio or...

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Running llama-cli on Linux

If you’ve experimented with local LLMs, you’ve likely used Ollama, LM Studio, or Jan.ai. These tools...

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I'm Passing on the GitHub CoPilot CLI Challenge

I'm an advocate of AI - both small and large language models. I'm also an advocate of dev.to, which I...

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LLMs - A Prompt to Encourage Hallucination

I've been continuing my testing of LLMs in order to identify strengths and weaknesses, how they...

Learn More 7 0Jan 27

LLMs - Four Tests to Challenge Reasoning

Thanks to those who have been following my series of articles on the testing of language models....

Learn More 9 3Jan 21

LLMs - Solvers vs Judges

This is continuation of what I discovered and shared in a former article (SLMs, LLMs and a Devious...

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Is an AI Model Software? – A Low‑Level Technical View

I've been posting articles here on dev.to recently, documenting my experiences while testing small...

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SLMs, LLMs and a Devious Logic Puzzle Test

Recently I was putting together some methods to test the performance of an SLM (small language model)...

Learn More 6 0Jan 12