DanielHB

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by DanielHB 2mo ago
I have tried running llamma.cpp on my PC and I found it hard getting it to run at decent speed. On Qwen 3.5-9b I get at most 10tk/s. I eventually switched to LM studio and the same model runs much better, like 70tk/s. Not sure if
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
One thing I realized is just how much offline local models can hurt mass data collection. For example, I needed to write an invitation letter for immigration control for a relative visiting me. Previously I would have used a search engine f
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
I have been running Claude Code using its built-in /sandbox feature with this config: "sandbox": { "enabled": true, "failIfUnavailable": true, "autoAllowBashIfSandboxed": true,
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
There is this implicit debate in web application development of cascading+overriding vs non-cascading-no-overriding. A lot of people don't even realize this is where the line is drawn and mix both together. I call them "component-
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
One of the main problems I face is that business knowledge is not explicitly written down and formulated. No matter how much you describe something in human text format those are not formal rules about how something should work. If you can&
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
I actually prefer using less powerful models most of the time, I might use a stronger model initially and then switch to weaker models as I fine tune the output. Offloading too much of your task to models eliminates the human ownership, wit
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
If the same amount of people bought your app at the same rate as if you hand-written it, then no. In fact your productivity would have grown 10x (half a day vs 1 work-week). The actual costs paid to Anthropic to make said app would have net
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
> If junior devs are productively producing software that then goes unused then how productive were they really Most ways of measuring productivity across an economy (in macro sense) takes into account only the transfer of capital. Meani
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
The new coal plants are not planned to run a full capacity (or at all) they are meant for backup in case of environmental disaster and geopolitics (war, sanctions, tariffs, etc). So the actual amount of coal being burned is still going down
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
I have seen some uncensored versions of existing open models made by 3rd parties, I wonder how they actually work and in what way are the outputs different.
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
China has been known to set up local industry, destroy competition through subsidies, jack up prices repeatedly. US does it all the time too with tech services (uber, airbnb, are the more notorious, but all big tech is doing it now), but Ch
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
Ideally there would be open weight models from multiple geopolitical areas. It is not that different from telecom really, you don't want the whole world to be dependent on a single provider from a single country on this kind of stuff.
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
The fear is not about the models open weights it is the erosion of training capability in other countries. Why train models when they do it for free? Until they don't of course, or they start doing what the US is doing right now by loc
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
Good point, but it could easily happen from both sides. The harness can just be default-tuned to think longer and harder on problems, or have dark UI patterns so the user _chooses_ the more expensive option even though the less expensive is
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
As soon as tokens stop being subsidized I would not trust any harness made by a company that also charges for the compute. Right now the interests align, but as soon as more tokens -> more profit (instead of more revenue and more losses)
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
It is all about the destination now where it used to be about the journey and the destination.
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
You don't understand what the OP said, your brain can get a intrinsic reward from seeing users use your LLM work. But LLM remove all the little intrinsic rewards from coding elegant systems to get to the point where you see users using
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
You put it in a good way, I have been saying this for my partner that I don't fear my job is at risk. I fear I am going to hate my job soon. I am coping a bit by still doing stuff by hand, especially stuff where prompting the LLM doesn
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
As far as I understand co-routines help don't really help with memory shared across go-routines. They only help in the fact you need to manage spawning and joining threads, making it easier to do stuff in parallel. But they don't
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
isn't it the exact same as C in this regard? The pointer being on the stack or not depends how it was originally allocated.
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
It also varies heavily on the kind of static analysis tools you are using in conjunction with your compiler. Some "bad" things about the language are just fine if they can be caught by the static analysis you are using. It is a ma
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
I think LLMs actually greatly improve accessibility, they are great about finding bad patterns in code. You can literally run a "open this codebase and improve accessibility where you can" and get mostly perfectly good changes. Mo
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
For normal OSS the only competition between contributors was for attention of maintainers to review and accept patches. In an open-source LLM model contributors would compete with each other for computing resources for model tweaks and chan
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
I think the main problem in LLM models is that you can not make a PR to an open source project to tweak some training parameters, prove it is an improvement and merge it. If you can not run the training yourself you can not contribute. So o
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
VSCode at least prompts you to trust the project folder before running anything, otherwise it will use a globally installed LSP.
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
LLM corporate slop is the new version big data reports that nobody reads. I am sad this infected code documentation and PR descriptions. This kind of stuff used to exist in order keep managers/executives busy not to keep engineers busy
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
Static memory safety is a spectrum and so is code quality. > how is that different from C? Zig gives you far more memory and type safety than C and without a borrow checker and a complex generics system. Zig also allows optional runtime
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
Yeah this is what I meant, structs are obviously a huge step up in type-safety but the ways you can abuse or bypass the typesystem in C and Go means you still have to be super careful about the memory your code hold, receive or returns. I t
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
The best thing React ever did to the JS ecosystem was hammer in on objects/maps/dicts being immutable. In modern JS it highly unnusual to see code modifying objects (except right after creating them) even though the language itsel
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
Yeah we had some corner case that still required eslint, although I don't remember what exactly. We also have prettier for a few file types not supported in biome.

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