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by bitexploder 18d ago
Yep. It really isn’t nefarious or abusive. I keep mine slowed down to not scan often to be considerate. Even private trackers can require it now.
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by bitexploder 18d ago
For what it’s worth, I am very happy with Jellyfin and the *arr suite. It took a bit of agent prodding to get them all playing nicely together and bypassing Cloudflare CAPTCHAs. However, it's pretty sweet when you get it all working.
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by bitexploder 19d ago
It does seem like for new code that might help. There's some really good logic and wisdom in it, but it has to be applied very contextually to the exact problem you are trying to solve. If an agent is navigating a complex codebase, thi
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by bitexploder 20d ago
Sol is my current favorite model to interact with. So much less BS than Opus 5. Fable 5.1 is okay as is Fable 5 but it has Opus like tendencies. Sol is very good at following instructions and remembering them for a session.
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by bitexploder 20d ago
Amusingly, as an autonomous coding agent, I kind of like Opus 5. But I have to bound it on tasks or it just goes off the rails. But I'm bounded tasks, it is genuinely solid. It's kind of like the new Sonnet 5. Right now my favorit
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by bitexploder 21d ago
I still hold the line on interviewing. Maybe some don’t. I am sure it is true. My team us too small with too much responsibility to tolerate mediocrity to any real extent
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by bitexploder 22d ago
In modern America the answer to that question is often resoundingly yes. Not just hypothetical.
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by bitexploder 22d ago
I believe. I run it on my mac M5 pro at like 30t/s with some RAGs and let it work on stuff overnight and it's great. It isn't the same as the big models where things can be more unbounded, but if local models keep progressing
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by bitexploder 22d ago
I have a few attention and finish mechanisms in my prompts. I have been using it for a week and a half and with some prompt taming it is great. (I have early access to the models cause I work at the place that makes the model). None of my a
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by bitexploder 22d ago
Fable is okay, just slower, eats tokens and not any better at coding tasks. Maybe a little better, but not better enough. It's a lot faster to have a cheap and fast flash agent / sonnet do the implementation work with Fable taggin
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by bitexploder 22d ago
Opus 5 is a genuinely infuriating model. I hate it’s behavior.
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by bitexploder 22d ago
I feel like a lot happened this week and people are glazing how ridiculously strong Flash 3.8 is right now compared to Fable/Opus/Sol/Astra.
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by bitexploder 22d ago
I wish people could see how some of this reads. You are an “amateur” using a model 6-8 weeks behind? Really? Sigh.
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by bitexploder 23d ago
Does Claude not allow third party harnesses?
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by bitexploder 23d ago
But running that fast… with a local RAG? Yeah, it is a very interesting model. Maybe you don’t need a lot of parameters, just a really big local database :)
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by bitexploder 23d ago
The thing I didn’t realize for a while is 27B is rather smart. As many (or more) activated parameters as the flash models of the universe that we know about. It reasons very well. It just doesn’t have a lot of knowledge.
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by bitexploder 23d ago
/me points over at Flash 3.8 :)
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by bitexploder 24d ago
It is more fun than serious at this point. Don't overthink it :)
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by bitexploder 24d ago
It is still going to be better at text work, skills, document review, deep reasoning, architecture review, etc. It is only 6 months old, it isn’t like its world knowledge and software knowledge is really out of date. Use it to churn on hard
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by bitexploder 24d ago
Inefficiency is their business model. They just soak $$ into their system. More overall revenue even if most of it is some rube goldberg machine of apathy.
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by bitexploder 29d ago
Models are like programming, language languages. You don’t need to follow them. If you don’t do video stuff don’t worry about it. You could probably digest mode every month or two and be just fine.
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by bitexploder 29d ago
I get that. I use agents a lot and LLMs often reason with code. It is valuable. I just think the floor is a lot lower for general reasoning and common tasks like that. And in 6-12 months it won’t matter. Google will publish better models. T
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
Not really. 2 years ago that was a pretty normal amount of GPU hardware for a hacker or gamer. It's all relative. They are not accessible to most people yet, but for someone that cares and is a technologist? Likely accessible.
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
AI / LLM is about more than agentic coding. It is one of the least interesting use cases to me, thinking more broadly. HN may be over-indexed on it.
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I work there. I have zero internal knowledge about the model. Opinion my own, etc. I don't think it is worth fighting to win on a month to month time horizon. When you step back and look an inch above this market, Gemini Pro 3.1 as a p
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I only like talking to Opus 4.6 in its default form. I have some pretty aggressive prompting strategies ensuring my language guidance rules are front and center and it really helps with Opus 4.8+, something went wrong with those models. Als
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
Use Muse Glimmer. It’s good.
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
There is evidence that some forms of ADHD are effectively just the brain falling asleep rapidly and then waking up. This form cam be attenuated with norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor alone. Presents with ADHD like symptoms. But it’s a new t
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
Fear and anger are generally distinct emotions. You can have one without the other. Many of the same pathways are active with fear that are active with an anger in your mind, mechanically speaking. You can have anger without fear though. I
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
That seems about right. 4.8 is like in between 4.6 and 5 in terms of capability and language and they are all pretty close honestly. I just default to using Opus 5 for a coding agent that I don't interact with and I like driving with O

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