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by martinald 5mo ago
Opus has 1M context now. In my experience it starts getting increasingly dumb after about 700k, but below that it is very usable. I don't think I've ever ran out of context window since they brought that out.
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by martinald 5mo ago
Many things at once I suspect: 1. Models have got way better, which means you are far more likely to get something working. I know I used to have little 'tool'/'weekend projects' all the time that wouldn't get
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29th August 2026: A Scenario(martinalderson.com)
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Map of track defects across the Spanish rail network(limitacions.vatard.com)
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by martinald 5mo ago
Most of the "danger" from nuclear waste passes in a few years as the most radioactive isotopes decay quickly (which is obvious when you think about it). Interestingly the US/UK/USSR dumped loads of nuclear waste in the o
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by martinald 5mo ago
Gemini is not reliable whatsoever: https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview/uptime (the orange chart is either AI studio or Vertex, I suspect AI studio, but it's not good either way). The reason yo
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by martinald 5mo ago
Don't think that's true. The drivers are bad (not sure terrible is fair, they have improved a lot) esp for older directx etc games. But Vulkan support is pretty good and that's all you need for LLMs really.
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by martinald 5mo ago
Really interesting. Why would Microsoft have done this deal? I'm a bit lost. Sure they get to not pay a revenue share _to_ OpenAI but surely that's limited to just OpenAI products which is probably a rounding error? Losing exclusi
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by martinald 5mo ago
Yes I understand, but do you not have issues that it drifts out of date and confuses the agents (especially on longer running tasks)? Like even "full" Visual Studio and Resharper have issues with this. Eg, you start editing file x
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by martinald 5mo ago
Very interesting! I've often thought static analysis could really help agents (I wrote this last summer: https://martinalderson.com/posts/claude-code-static-analysis... ), but despite being hyped for LSPs in Claude
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by martinald 6mo ago
const isAiContent = (str) => str.includes('—');? :)
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by martinald 6mo ago
Maybe I'm missing something in this paper, but this seems to me to be just pretty "standard" caching stuff, albeit: a) very time sensitive b) huge files c) scoped per user Sort of reminds me of video streaming on CDNs for liv
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by martinald 6mo ago
Yes fair enough, but try feeding my comment in :). It should be enough for it to go on. Then ask it to explain the concepts I mentioned and ask it to suggest follow-up questions for you to learn more about llama.cpp/local inference! I&
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by martinald 6mo ago
Yes I think you're right. Reinforcement learning is extremely compute heavy, which cursor doesn't have. And X.ai doesn't have the coding agent data anthropic/OpenAI has, but does have the compute. However, one thing in A
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by martinald 6mo ago
check out https://www.leaseloco.com/ (there's other sites - I am assuming you are in the UK), they have a lot of deals on. If you want a really good deal then I don't think you want to look for a specific car, you
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by martinald 6mo ago
As sibling comment posted, if you run a company you can write off the cost of the lease against corporation tax (25% tax saving), VAT (a further 10% saving if you have personal use, otherwise the full 20% if it's purely business), and
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by martinald 6mo ago
Not quite. The UK govt has a rolling target of how many EVs are sold as a proportion of all vehicles. The manufacturers get "fined" £15k per ICE car sold over the target. The targets are ramping up rapidly - 22% in 2024, 28% in 20
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by martinald 6mo ago
Try using a MoE model (like Gemma 4 26b-a4b or qwen3.6 35b-a3b) and offload the inference to CPU. If you have enough system RAM (32GB is a bit tight tbh depending on other apps) then this works really well. You may be able to offload some l
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by martinald 6mo ago
I suspect this is the best option. Focus on one city pair to start with, _you_ are the courier and find customers on that city pair. Then you can start figuring out how to attract people onto that city pair so you don't have to do it a
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by martinald 6mo ago
Atlassian just goes from misstep to misstep. I still use their products quite often. The amount of P0 bugs I experience is absolutely crazy: - Bitbucket workers are hopelessly out of date (self hosted). We've had to put so many random
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Figma's woes compound with Claude Design(martinalderson.com)
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by martinald 6mo ago
Yeah, though AFIAK these event loops still suffer from blocking on (eg) complex json parsing or anything CPU driven (where real multithreading shines). But regardless I agree, I'm just saying that these kind of patterns _are_ needed in
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by martinald 6mo ago
Interesting! I wrote this approach up (more or less - extract design system -> make templates -> export) some time ago and I've found it unbelievably powerful: https://martinalderson.com/posts/how-to-make-gre
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by martinald 6mo ago
I feel like I'm on a different planet when I see this kind of comment. What if you need to call multiple external APIs at once with complex json? Sure you can call them one after another, but if each take (say) 2s to return (not uncomm
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by martinald 6mo ago
The regulation has an opt out for court orders though, which these are.
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by martinald 6mo ago
Yes of course but the spot market and associated futures has a very big impact on any "OTC" deal that a supplier and generator does. Like you are not going to agree a eg 3 year supply deal with $SUPPLYCO at a significantly lower p
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by martinald 6mo ago
UK peak power demand has _reduced_ by 15GW in the past 20ish years. Obviously there is some investment needed but if you take a look at the capex cost of the north Scottish grid upgrades PLUS the HVDCs it's pretty terrifying. The idea
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by martinald 6mo ago
I'm certainly not saying we should stay on fossil fuels, my main point is that for the money that is being spent on various renewables could have been spent on a giant nuclear expansion at lower cost and far higher relability. I don&#x
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by martinald 6mo ago
Yes of course it's hit major delays, but my point is in hindsight had we started 5 nuclear plants (sort of as planned) around HPC construction start instead of spending the money on renewables, we'd have 5 plants coming online in
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by martinald 6mo ago
Australia and Canada have enormous uranium deposits. We're not going to have an entirely British energy supply chain (solar panels are mostly from China, etc). And it's a relatively small amount of mass to ship - perhaps 500 tonne

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