lionkor

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by lionkor 2mo ago
It means it doesn't count towards their uptime at all, I guess, because all their uptime stats are very high for a service that is down more than anything else I use
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by lionkor 2mo ago
The idea is, I believe, that the Pro model is a larger model (more parameters, or less quantization) in general. What implication that has, I couldn't tell you. For tasks like pondering on something, reviewing code, etc. I use Pro, jus
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by lionkor 2mo ago
Also got the email. It warned of a future large price increase, and to carefully watch usage. I read it as a "hey we will make stuff more expensive, don't miss it"
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by lionkor 2mo ago
What point are you making? Can you elaborate?
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by lionkor 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by lionkor 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by lionkor 2mo ago
We shouldn't pretend that he's making a real point. I would like to see 1.2B invested to save wildlife, but that's not happening, so that's almost like a "figure of speech".
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by lionkor 2mo ago
There are way better metrics of function complexity, like how many branching points, how many loops, or even just how many levels of indentation. TDD, OOP, Clean Code, etc are an attempt to solve very real problems. They are then applied as
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by lionkor 2mo ago
If you don't learn anything, you can be replaced with zero friction
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by lionkor 2mo ago
More productive? If the result can be trash, of course the AI work wins. In industries where quality and performance BOTH need to be upheld, knowing these details lets you guide the LLMs in a way that they will simply never do by themselves
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by lionkor 2mo ago
> Do you know how x86 registers work? Or atomic instructions available on ARM, SPARC, or POWER architectures? Yeah, I have a pretty good idea of how we go from code -> IR registers -> x86 registers and how the underlying hardware h
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by lionkor 2mo ago
The same as it's been! Make things without using LLMs. Don't debug with them, don't use them to research things, just do it yourself. It'll be painful and that pain is learning.
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by lionkor 2mo ago
This "instant" loop is so fast because it doesn't involve the part where you learn
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by lionkor 2mo ago
As a born German, I do not take most of these things for granted! And of course I complain about all the things that need to be better.
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by lionkor 2mo ago
Congrats on your citizenship! You're a great showcase for why this immigration process needs to exist and why it works.
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by lionkor 2mo ago
> I noticed the same thing in the rich districts of Hamburg. You can walk into one and not feel like you don't belong, and the prices in the shops are not that different from anywhere else in the city. Sometimes they are exactly the
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by lionkor 2mo ago
Yes all of it goes straight to China! All of it is also open source or source available, or will be in the future. The stuff that isn't is trivial enough. For any work with protected intellectual property, I use other providers, for th
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by lionkor 2mo ago
No, platform.deepseek.com for me! The caching is super important, not sure how open router performs, I haven't tried it.
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by lionkor 2mo ago
No js or python, it's mostly C#, Rust, and C++. They're helpful/useful on all of those, I've also used the review skill on shell scripts, GitLab pipelines, Powershell scripts, C, and a couple other odd things. It's
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by lionkor 2mo ago
We can expect a new v4 pro, this was a footnote in the v4 flash announcement earlier.
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by lionkor 2mo ago
Oh I know, I'm just trying to say that I agree fully that a bio is a terrible proxy, while also showing what I think is a good proxy for skill (open source work before LLMs became this "good", for example). I'm a big pro
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by lionkor 2mo ago
I should have worded it differently. Having a model selector as `string` seems like the wrong choice. At the very least, I should be able to select 4.X, like how we select dependencies, so people who rely on specific behavior can pin to 4.0
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by lionkor 2mo ago
Sounds like it'll replace v4-flash, v4.1 would be nice to keep both available. On the other hand, it's nice to just get an improvement on anything that asks for "deepseek-v4-flash" without having to change the model stri
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by lionkor 2mo ago
I agree a bio is a bad proxy, and I'm not saying I'm amazing but I'm not THAT incompetent. Most of my GitHub is pre-LLM era; github.com/lionkor Edit: And like a lot of tools, HOW you use them is just about as important a
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by lionkor 2mo ago
Aside from what squidbeak already said, I have to say the quality varies a lot, and goes above the "good" threshold enough times that using these models is worth the time and effort. Compared to something like GPT-5.4 to GPT-5.6 C
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by lionkor 2mo ago
It hallucinates plenty, about the same as Codex models and all other LLMs! I review all code it writes, thoroughly, check the test coverage, write tests myself, have other models/chats cross-check the work with a review skill (which I&
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by lionkor 2mo ago
I use pi, and, like the sibling comment, the caching ratio is fantastic. I work on C#, Rust, C, C++, shell scripting, and other areas.
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by lionkor 2mo ago
Yes, gladly! I have not yet open-sourced my skills etc., but I can give some insight and share a couple here. Review is a skill, as in, a SKILL.md with a folder full of references: - SKILL.md: https://gist.github.com/lionkor
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by lionkor 2mo ago
I want to second this, I use the same setup (pi + deepseek, with lots of custom tools for tracking TODOs, doing things with less tokens, etc, and with a SOTA model for very difficult tasks) and it's all I need it to be.
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by lionkor 2mo ago
I use deepseek for a lot of my personal day-to-day agent needs, and I will simply put this here and let this speak for itself, last 30 days: - Cost: $4.55USD - API requests: 3,467 - Tokens: 323,183,886 And as an engineer who leads a small t

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