The Lackey Papers

What happens when you apply the Ma framework at micro scale.

A sub-series of Ratchet Fuel exploring tool-call composition, restricted code generation, and the surprising prediction that the framework’s most interesting implications are about small models on laptops, not frontier models on clusters.

• The Ratchet at the Small Scale
• The Round-Trip Tax
• The Lackpy Gambit
• The Specialization Lives in the Language
• The Worst Model Became the Best
• The Tool That Teaches Itself to Disappear