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I am right there with you. Mind-boggling. It's a indistinguishable from magic technology!! I tried running some basic tasks through Qwen with Opencode on a 10 y
by hparadiz 4mo ago
I am right there with you. Mind-boggling. It's a indistinguishable from magic technology!! I tried running some basic tasks through Qwen with Opencode on a 10 year old dual Xeon server for shits and giggles. I gave it a simple task like "use ffprobe first but convert this webm to mp4" and it was able to complete the task with zero network calls outside my network. On 10 year old hardware. It took about 3 minutes to complete the task. Now you may be saying 3 minutes? pfft. But I dare you to do it yourself. You're gonna be googling the CLI switches for at least 10 minutes and setting up your command. I had it actually optimize all the switches on the fly for me based on an initial ffprobe to see what is optimal.
- bluerooibos 4mo ago> 10 year old dual Xeon server...On 10 year old hardware. Hold on, what are the specs of your rig? How much RAM? I've been considering getting an old refurbished 2018 Mac Mini with 64Gb of DDR4 RAM but everything I've read suggests this will be way slower than my 16Gb M1 Pro Macbook.
- hparadiz 4mo agoI inherited a box with dual Xeons and 256 GB of DDR4. I then ran several tests and benchmarks of the hardware with several models. I've been meaning to write a blog post but well whatever here's the md. https://gist.github.com/hparadiz/f3596d00a62d8ebb2dadcc46ee5822c7 https://gist.github.com/hparadiz/f3596d00a62d8ebb2dadcc46ee5... Qwen3.5 9B performed best. You can absolutely still use this to do some basic stuff like tell opencode to convert a video file from one format to another. But frankly you're better off getting two AMD GPUs. Say a dual 7900XT would get way better performance.
- linzhangrun 4mo agoNo need to touch the Macintosh from the X86 era
- bandrami 4mo ago> You're gonna be googling the CLI switches for at least 10 minutes So there's this really amazing program called "man"
- hparadiz 4mo agoYea there's something called a phone book too.
- bandrami 4mo agoAnd that would be a much better source for a phone number than Googling. Similarly, the docs that ship with software are a better source for command line switches for that software than a search engine or LLM.
- hparadiz 4mo agoMy lived experience right now is a lot of super talented people around me using these tools all day every day to build awesome things and then there's the randos like you on HN who think they know better. Protip: You don't know squat.
- cruffle_duffle 4mo agoThe docs that ship with it are a great source for the LLM who will be running the command and monitoring its output, fixing or adjusting whatever in order to complete my goal. Why on earth would I be calling it by hand?