trey-jones

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by trey-jones 17d ago
This is exactly true in my experience. I find myself trusting the LLM better than I ever trusted a development team to deliver accurate work. Just like you would managing a team of junior developers, you have to keep an eye on the output,
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by trey-jones 18d ago
I won't read anything on twitter as it currently stands, because the product sucks. The "fixed" functionality provided by xCancel is what makes it worth it for me to read. So, if you want me as a customer, you need to provi
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by trey-jones 19d ago
Regardless of the legality of the service: I always use xcancel instead of X. I don't have a twitter account and I don't want to sign in. I just occasionally want to read what some people had to say about something. Even this i
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by trey-jones 1mo ago
I've been using 5.3 since they initially announced it and my gut feel is that it's not as good as 5.2 for agentic tasks. I'm still using it - I don't think it's bad. I'm just not convinced it's better.
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by trey-jones 2mo ago
This is exactly how I feel about my job now. I'm the new manager. But honestly claude is better than any team of developers I've ever had working under me. It does exactly what I ask it to, in 10 minutes instead of 3 weeks. An
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by trey-jones 2mo ago
I used claude with GLM and it's easy to set up, just hard to find the documentation. No headaches really, unless you want to use it against multiple different APIs.
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by trey-jones 2mo ago
Definitely feels like a lot more than 2x to me. Any time it feels like the agent is taking a long time I have to look in the mirror and say to myself "What could you have done in 5 minutes?"
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by trey-jones 3mo ago
When I found Tesla P100s on ebay for $75 I thought I was getting a cheap server, but 1/3 of the total cost was RAM. Sorry, first time I've built a computer since the shortage.
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by trey-jones 3mo ago
I don't know why we're even talking about Qwen3.6 for writing code when qwen3-coder exists. My experience is there's no contest. I'm using 30b with 96k context on a dedicated server.
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by trey-jones 3mo ago
Qwen3.6 was the first model I ran locally that seemed smart, but qwen3-coder:30b is way, way more responsive and more accurate for writing code according to my tests, including human-eval. If you can run one than you can almost certainly r
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by trey-jones 4mo ago
You don't have to have a monopoly to be monopolistic.
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by trey-jones 4mo ago
I know it uses electricity, but part of the benefit of a local model has to be that you can let it do this while you sleep, and not pay Anthropic for an unknown number of tokens.
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by trey-jones 4mo ago
Exactly. I have sort of a fetish for trying to make things smaller by trimming out things that aren't needed. Unfortunately this skill has been largely useless since forever, because hardware improves to the point that these optimiza
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by trey-jones 4mo ago
I'm really curious about this, not because I disagree, but because I want to avoid agents going whack. Are you running vllm for yourself only, or a for a team, or for an application, etc? And do you feel there is a minimum hardware r
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by trey-jones 4mo ago
I saw this years and years ago, and it's actually one of my favorite things I've ever seen on the web. I recommend reading from start to finish.
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by trey-jones 5mo ago
Or more simply just wrap some orchestrator in a single service file. Could just be a bash script used for ExecStart.
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by trey-jones 6mo ago
The fact that every job application wants a link to my profile on a platform that tries to push "brain training puzzle and games" on me just makes me angry every single time. I really hate LinkedIn and my active rebellion against
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by trey-jones 6mo ago
Sure. Even a history of safety success contributes to this. We haven't had an accident in 3000 days, what was dangerous about this job again? Also what's this stupid policy for anyway, I've never seen anybody even come clo
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by trey-jones 6mo ago
This is really accurate to my experience learning FreeCAD earlier this year. I am a former professional CAD user (of a lesser software than AutoCAD) and I don't think I would have gotten far without being able to ask ChatGPT for help
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by trey-jones 7mo ago
To be fair, I think human nature is probably a bigger culprit here than the quote. Yes, it was one of the first things told to me as a new programmer. No, I don't think it influenced very heavily how I approach my work. It's ju
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by trey-jones 7mo ago
DRY is not to avoid writing code (of any amount). DRY is a maintainability feature. "Unless you're very familiar with the code" you probably won't remember that you have to make this change in two places instead of one
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by trey-jones 7mo ago
I think this is a reasonable rule of thumb, but there are also times that the code you are about to write a second time is extremely portable and can easily be made reusable (say less than 5 minutes of extra time to make the abstraction).
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by trey-jones 7mo ago
I'm sorry that the author got bitten by this. But .com purism is funny to me. I only buy GTLDs for personal projects, and I've never had a problem before. But then, I've never bought .online.
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by trey-jones 8mo ago
Private keys should never leave the device where they are created.
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by trey-jones 8mo ago
Right, I'd say this is the best value I've gotten out of it so far: I'm planning to build this thing in this way, does that seem like a good idea to you? Sometimes I get good feedback that something else would be better.
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by trey-jones 8mo ago
To me, an old guy, I would rather have LLM doing (assisting with) the code review than the actual code production. Is that stupid?
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by trey-jones 9mo ago
I prefer not, because technically this socialist phase is part of capitalism currently.
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by trey-jones 9mo ago
Yes - we're in what I like to call the Socialist Phase of AI (user acquisition). We were once in this phase with Google. Eventually we'll move into the as-yet-unnamed-by-me phase that Google (and search in General, also the inte
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by trey-jones 11mo ago
A late reply to your outrage: I said I'm in favor, I'm not trying to parent your kids, but the effects of putting a phone (or similar) into most peoples' hands is easily observable and marked. I'm not limiting this to c
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by trey-jones 11mo ago
As a parent who gave my oldest child a (very used) smartphone just before she turned 14, I would be in favor of making smartphones illegal under age 15 (or some other number, higher or lower I don't care). I'm pretty sure they&#x

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