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Claude Code, Codex and Cowork all have "plugins" now, but this generation has little in common with the ChatGPT plugins of 2023. This is the illustrated beginner edition. No config files and no protocols; just what goes inside a plugin, which generations led here, how much room a plugin took up when I installed one and measured it, and what that means for people who use agents.
NVIDIA makes the same chip into gaming cards and professional cards, and on the gaming cards the tensor cores, the part built for AI math, ship set to half speed. In October 2026 an open-source project called gpu-unlock lifted that lock. This is the illustrated beginner edition. No registers and no code; just where the story comes from, where the lock sits, what I measured on my own laptop, and what it means for everyone else.