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by springtimesun 2mo ago
Stake the claim then. I’ve also read a fair bit of LLM text and this didn’t trip anything for me. Edit: after reading the author bio and the other articles, I agree with this assessment. Though I will admit, this particular article didn’t j
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
Thank you for sharing that. If you write something of your life I’d be interested in reading it. I once was on an Audax ride with some guy I just met. 12:30 we pick up together at a gas station and decide to share lights, we’re targeting th
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
Heinz lived, in the most extreme way possible, my dream of traveling by bike. I’m reminded of the Annie Dillard quote: > There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the sense
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
It’s not a complaint, only an observation. Operator aside, to observe that the models behave differently shouldn’t be controversial, should it? It seems like you read my comment as dissing Kimi. Kimi is in regular rotation for me. Some task
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
One thing I have been increasingly confused about is why the memory makers are not building or planning to build more fabs. A few months ago I thought it was obvious, that they correctly identified the AI bubble, but after going down the ra
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
How does the return from this browser compare with what comes out of the Claude Code harness, for example? I recently wired the Kagi MCP and I as curious the differences in what’s returned (Kagi extract vs Claude’s harness return). I didn’t
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
I have never used sol, but I regularly use Claude to set up and benchmark local models per task. It is very thorough and has always returned good setups. The only thing you have to do is make sure you point at the model card. It’s always in
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
I’m a one person team, but I went the other direction and replaced my paid time tracking and invoicing software with something custom. The decider wasn’t the monthly payment. As the author mentions, it was cheap costing me less an one billa
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
I’m sure it’s possible, but I really struggle to think of an example that would result in a 1m token output.
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
I have spent way too much on hardware. I’m sure I will look back on that after the eventual price normalization with some regret. I do think we will look back at this shortage and name it as the thing that accelerated innovation at getting
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
Alone, Qwen can close basic bug tickets. Passing up and passing down have not really worked that well for me. In some cases passing Qwen’s output up to Claude can be actively harmful bc it can anchor the solution space to a bad approach. Pa
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
I agree with OPs commment about K3 being pretty good. Claude can be good too, but it didn’t get there until I made a writing rule. It has 4 basic sections: * a style guide with examples for different tasks (it’s sufficient to name writers w
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
I hadn’t really thought about it until I read this (and happen to be spending time reading Kimi’s reasoning), but I can imagine an issue in the future where I will want more than just git blame + the ticket + the PR. Attaching an entire ses
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
I have been doing this with opencode. Spend a fair bit of time composing and scoping a ticket. tmux on the server where the local inference lives, start a non-interactive session that starts with “read issue #123, do all your work in a feat
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
I see where this idea is coming from as someone who had loathed doing Wordpress client projects and I’m not shitting on AI. You can see from my comments that I use AI a lot. But you’ve got to edit presentation material into a human voice. I
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
It trips a content restriction. It’s vague, but I’m guessing because the podcasts are adjacent to/are copyrighted material. What’s really interesting is it’s also tied to thinking level. The sweet spot for quality with low refusal is C
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
I run fable at max for basically any non-trivial task. Not even for the result of that task, I get so many “I noticed in passing” bullets at the end that have led to productive refactors and caught bugs it’s worth the tokens by itself. Obvi
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
I had flashbacks to when I first started making web apps. I used to care so very much about this. I haven’t thought about capital REST in years. Edit: a few minutes after I wrote that I had the thought, what if this is someone else’s arc wi
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
This is true for me, but I wonder if it’s true for most. An alternative framing is not that apps moved to the cloud because they were faster or more convenient but that apps moved to the cloud because they became “free” by you paying with y
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by springtimesun 2mo ago
Watching K3’s thought traces has been fascinating. I have a podcast transcription pipeline that uses an LLM pass to increase quality especially over proper nouns and Whisper hallucinations. Here is the trace for an episode of Deep Cover set
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by springtimesun 3mo ago
For this to be true, and pointed at consumers, it would have to be the case that consumers are a threat to frontier models. To be a threat to frontier models consumers would have to either 1) be willing to run massive hardware or 2) accept
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by springtimesun 3mo ago
For personal projects, it depends on how important they are. My time tracking and invoicing software, all of it. The app that archives and serves my podcast library, none (it’s written in a language I have never worked with). For client wor
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by springtimesun 3mo ago
I have been trying something like this with local only models. I think I’ve tried everything that will fit in 96GB alone and in concert with each other using real project data (Rails). I haven’t found much benefit to anything other than Qwe
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by springtimesun 3mo ago
I am writing far less code than I used to and I’m finding that reviewing is a different skill entirely (and one I need some work on). I have always worked by myself and my past reviews were the sleep on it and see how it reads in the mornin
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by springtimesun 3mo ago
I doubt it, but maybe :) RE personal projects specifically: addiction is an interesting angle. It feels more like anxiety though, that this thing is going to be taken away and this will be a brief and glorious window when I had the means an
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by springtimesun 3mo ago
You’re right I’m not earning 20x more. I recently nearly doubled my rate for new clients and raised existing up by 50%. That’s not enough to offset the efficiency gains in the long run because I will bill fewer hours per client, but right n
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by springtimesun 3mo ago
I am feeling very tired. Since I’ve started working with LLMs my output as a solo dev has easily gone up 20x. I’m closing client projects including ones that previously would have been far too ambitious to take on alone. Long running codeba
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by springtimesun 3mo ago
I’m just dipping my feet in the water of local models and I really feel this. I had a simple alignment task (align known quality transcript without timestamps with timestamped but lower quality whisper transcriptions) and I went through 12
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by springtimesun 5mo ago
I’m at exactly that point where it sounds like you were. I’ve done 3 Access to Rails conversions and I’m hunting for the next one. The one I’m on at the moment is supporting 5 branches over 2 countries and 2 independent machine shops. Even
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by springtimesun 5mo ago
As someone who lives in Switzerland, but is not Swiss, I love this kind of thing. It’s an insight into an internal cultural understanding I didn’t get growing up and doesn’t really come up in the conversations I have day to day.

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