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by bitexploder 1mo ago
Commented elsewhere, I still use Opus 4.6 because it is the only model that feels decent to interact with. 4.8 is decent and some times smarter but you can see it trending towards Opus 5 levels of nonsense. I use Opus 5 when I don't ne
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I kind of still chill out on Opus 4.6 too. 4.8 is good too. I go between them. Opus 4.8 is a little smarter some of the time. Their use of language is both very different from Opus 5. Some of the time I have a hard time believing Opus 5 is
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I don't think we disagree. I'm just outlining a narrow aspect of how I like to operate. I meditate and spend a lot of time thinking about philosophy and neuroscience and cognition. It is a very introspective and contemplative prac
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I think that you will fully misinterpreted what I wrote. Sorry maybe that is not fair. Assuming good intent. Let me expand what I was thinking: You should still do long-term planning and use that to decide how you will stay present. Nothing
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
Yes, maybe. Evidence around caveman shows this isn’t a big deal for token consumption (forcing it to respond in a way it was not tuned) and I don’t see a big difference either way. And maybe it increases intelligence in hard to measure ways
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
There is something incredibly important about a therapist I would not discard. And that is the human connection. We are hard wired for this and most often what people need out of a therapist is being seen. Another human being to fully and u
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
We do have metacognition and should use. It isn’t like we should go off the rails and become fully hedonic to “live in the moment” for example, we need some guiding principles . And when you are younger it can be really hard to know what is
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I’m pretty tall. I find that mostly beneficial except for walking into things. I also don’t fit well in Miata and some convertibles and other small cars, which is a bit of a problem on occasion. I was going to add more, but I kind of forgot
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
The problem I have with modern therapy is it that it operates completely within the frame of oneself. They will very carefully walk with you inside of your own narrative, bringing you to a better place of operation within that framework of
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I am mid 40s. Started working at a hyper scaler a couple years ago. I think you are overthinking it. All there is, is to be present and focus on what is important. And no one else can tell you what is important, you already know. Spend your
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
What I have learned about neuroscience and philosophy is this: most people are not willing to invest as much time in small pursuits versus understanding the machinery of their mind and what will actually let them understand themselves with
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I don’t use their CLIs. OMP/OpenCode. If you are stuck on them, you can do it in a proxy layer.
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
Nope, you gotta understand. This is the move. It is appended at the end of every single message. It is never saved in the conversation that get sent back for inference. So you send it. But when you go back for inference, it’s at the top of
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
This is actually funny because I've been doing some RAG experiments and I've basically trained up a RAG on several gigabytes of philosophy and neuroscience. And when I want to go metacognitive about thought processes, I actually r
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I have basically polluted my context and agent files, agent.md, claude.md, gemini.md with really strong guidance about using plain language. I even include small, mini design specifications, examples of plain engineering language, only usin
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I decided not to get used to its communication style. It encourages it to invent terminology and drift away from simple and proper engineering in my opinion. Also, it is pretty simple to change as long as you’re not using the Claude code CL
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
It seems a little excessive to use another LLM. With OMP I basically created an ephemeral prompt stack all of my agent files. It walks up the directory tree looking for any Gemini.md, Agents.md or Claude.md files. And it puts those at the v
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I have been using Muse Glimmer for a few days instead of A3B. It gets the job done quicker than A3B despite being several times slower.
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
Yeah, but be fair. Working with small models is a different ball game. Not all the batteries come included :)
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
I had to fix this on 35B A3B -- I have a proxy that just shuts it down if it gets to 2K thinking tokens and injects something like "We have thought enough, let's begin working." and it almost always finishes the turn then. It
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
GLP-1 does a lot more than just stomach signaling. It shrinks visceral fat, it's been shown to clear liver fat, and it actually increases mitochondrial efficiency similar to if you were to do endurance work/cardio. There's a
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
They controlled for BMI at least, so they knew that was going to be a common question. BMI is a pretty good proxy for that, and they still said that the majority of the effect came from the compound and not BMI.
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
That is exactly how this model has worked for me so far. Muse on a one-shot task will get to 80%. And if you even nudge it and say, "Hey, finish up," or "Review the syntax," boom, it's done. And I'm getting 20
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
Have you tried Muse 30B yet? I have been impressed with it. I have Qwen 3.8 27B hammering away right now against Muse. And Muse is doing a little bit better.
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by bitexploder 1mo ago
Flash models and Gemini make more sense when you consider Gemini Enterprise and Workspace. Oh HN we generally care a lot about writing software. However, until Fable, Gemini 3.1 Pro was my default for doing any sort of discussion outside of
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by bitexploder 2mo ago
I would also think about combining the descriptions of photographs with some sort of RAG to essentially help shoot you into the reference references easier.
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by bitexploder 2mo ago
I ran a 9B over my like 100k photo library — it was very good at it. And extracting any text. All local.
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by bitexploder 2mo ago
Pi and a similar set of tools is also likely similar to the harness these models are trained on. More complex harnesses burn reasoning tokens on these small models and in my benchmarking don't seem to be able to beat Pi ever. Usually i
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by bitexploder 2mo ago
You really have to get the models to end their thinking. Almost any commercial model serving has safe guards like this to tune how much they think.
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by bitexploder 2mo ago
I have a custom A3B proxy that caps its thinking off. It is a known issue with the model that Qwen themselves documented but is almost never addressed in any harnesses. I also patched up a few other known bugs in the proxy. I highly recomme

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