Skeptical
by design.
I’m not affiliated with any AI company. I don’t take sponsorships, I don’t run affiliate links, and I don’t have a preferred model I’m trying to sell you on. Every tool, every release, every benchmark gets the same treatment: what does it actually do, right now, for a real person?
Skepsix started because I got tired of AI coverage that reads like a press release with different fonts. The hype cycle moves fast. The useful signal is buried. My job is to dig it out — test things hands-on, track what changes quietly between versions, and write it up without softening the edges.
The range here is deliberate. Some articles are technical — architecture deep-dives, local hardware benchmarks, things that assume you know what a context window is. Others start from zero, because the most useful experiments often come from people who aren’t developers and have no reason to be impressed by default.
I pay particular attention to what ordinary users discover on their own — the Reddit threads, the Discord logs, the “wait, did anyone else notice this?” moments. They tend to surface real behavior faster than any official documentation. Benchmarks tell you what a model can do in ideal conditions. Users tell you what it does when you push it wrong.
If something works, I’ll say so. If it doesn’t, I’ll say that too. The goal is a clear picture of where AI actually is — not where the roadmap says it’s going.
Get in touch
sean@skepsix.com- 01 Hands-on tool reviews with a private benchmark suite
- 02 Local hardware tests — what actually runs, at what speed, on what budget
- 03 Community experiments from real users, documented and analyzed
- 04 Technical deep-dives written to be understood, not to impress
- 05 Industry news stripped of spin — what changed, what it means, what to watch
- × Sponsored content
- × Affiliate links
- × Hype without evidence
- × Doom without nuance
- × Loyalty to any single platform