I have written assembly for about 5 different processors, including 65C02s, 680x0s, cute little DSP3210s that managed the CPU cache manually, utterly cursed TI320C40s, and (of course) a bit of Intel. WebAssembly is…
Fable wrote a pretty decent test suite covering typical Prolog programs, including things with non-trivial execution patterns like "append" that do complex backtracking on multiple branches. And I've run a modest number…
Claude is perfectly capable of writing assembly. Here's a working (basic) Prolog interpreter that Claude Fable 5 wrote in WebAssembly in 61 minutes for $16.75 in token costs:…
You can maybe run a local Sonnet-4.5-ish-level model (sort of) for less than the price of a new car, even at current massively inflated prices for fast RAM. This is probably not what you were looking for. But it's…
GLM 5.2 isn't quite modern Opus tier, as seen in this comparison where Opus 4.5 scores 4/5 on some coding tasks where GLM 5.2 scores 0/5: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/gpt-5.6-build-off-12-models But yes, GLM 5.2 is cheap.…
A really common use case is install/bootstrap/setup scripts. You know, those sketchy curl-to-bash things, or cloud-init scripts, or whatever you run to set up your actual higher level tools like Python.
> I don't take 3 as a given. There's just too much going on in the space for one cloistered company to control it all and be in control of it. Yeah, in my comment, I was assuming the publicly-stated goals of the labs…
The author is completely right about the AI Lab's promised vision of the world: They claim to want to create superhuman intelligence, which will produce vast abundance. But superhuman intelligence would be extremely…
We have benchmarks for our use cases, and every generation after Gemini 2.0 Flash has been a grim hit on price/performance. Costs have gone up, throughput has gone down, and performance has improved very slightly (and…
As a professional programmer entering the final third of an enjoyable career, I would now place "learning to code" in the same category as "making a living as a poet." As in, it's truly enjoyable art and some people…
Frontier models like Fable are mostly useful if you want to paste in one or two prompts, and receive a subtly broken application that looks impressive. That is very hard to do with local models today. What current local…
By "blew it with Washington" you mean "Didn't donate millions to the ballroom."
> The same change could be affected by e.g. schools and businesses agreeing to open at 8am instead of 9am. School starts at 8am everywhere that I know of in northern New England and always has? Does school start at 9am…
Yeah, as someone who lives in Vermont, you could talk me into permanent DST. That would move the winter sunset from, say, 4:21pm to 5:21pm, which would mean I'd get enough twilight for a short walk after work. And Maine…
> I saw what I forgot immediately; but soon after, with engagement, I saw how quickly I was able to remember. We actually have pretty good models for how long it takes to forget things. It's the same basic math that…
> It's best not to blame the students. They are good at optimizing metrics; that's how they ended up here in the first place. As an alumnus of Dartmouth College's CS program, I am sad to hear that my alma mater has…
> The penalty for cheating should be automatic expulsion. Historically, the penalty for cheating at Dartmouth was a 9-month suspension for a first offense (no matter how small, in theory), and permanent "separation from…
> May be it is that we are ingenious amd creative with tools and thats how we evolve. And every time you use the AI to be ingenious or creative, that will be added to the training data. Then someday the AI can be…
A GPU with 24GBs of RAM is mostly useful for running a very carefully squeezed Qwen3.6 27B (4-bit Unsloth quants, 8-bit K/V cache, possibly MTP, 128k context). This is a fun little model that's smart enough to do…
> If so, the thinking trace can be sort of nonsensical for a reader, though whether this is an idiosyncrasy of the model or a property of LLMs in general isn't clear to me yet. Yes, several models think in weird jargon.…
The difference is that a compiler is a rigorous, (nearly) determinisic, heavily tested artrifact built by expert humans. I have only encountered genuine code generation bugs in compilers twice in my career. And yes,…
> Telling people “you must read all the code generated by an LLM” is definitely meaningful—but it is not at all moderate (so most people won’t do it). I am honestly heartbroken to live in a world where reading the code…
Lol, no. I've always sounded like that, and there are decades of my writing online. Also, FWIW, Pangram scores my writing as entirely human. Claude's writing isn't easy to identify because it uses em-dashes and bulleted…
Claude's writing style is at least as distinctive as any human's personal style. It has a long list of favorite words, verbal tics and common structures. On top of that, LLM writing is often bad in a very particular…
This varies enormously by where you live. I live out in the countryside. If I run into someone in the road, I will nod my head, maybe introduce myself, and maybe chat, if the other person is interested. (To be fair, I…
I have written assembly for about 5 different processors, including 65C02s, 680x0s, cute little DSP3210s that managed the CPU cache manually, utterly cursed TI320C40s, and (of course) a bit of Intel. WebAssembly is…
Fable wrote a pretty decent test suite covering typical Prolog programs, including things with non-trivial execution patterns like "append" that do complex backtracking on multiple branches. And I've run a modest number…
Claude is perfectly capable of writing assembly. Here's a working (basic) Prolog interpreter that Claude Fable 5 wrote in WebAssembly in 61 minutes for $16.75 in token costs:…
You can maybe run a local Sonnet-4.5-ish-level model (sort of) for less than the price of a new car, even at current massively inflated prices for fast RAM. This is probably not what you were looking for. But it's…
GLM 5.2 isn't quite modern Opus tier, as seen in this comparison where Opus 4.5 scores 4/5 on some coding tasks where GLM 5.2 scores 0/5: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/gpt-5.6-build-off-12-models But yes, GLM 5.2 is cheap.…
A really common use case is install/bootstrap/setup scripts. You know, those sketchy curl-to-bash things, or cloud-init scripts, or whatever you run to set up your actual higher level tools like Python.
> I don't take 3 as a given. There's just too much going on in the space for one cloistered company to control it all and be in control of it. Yeah, in my comment, I was assuming the publicly-stated goals of the labs…
The author is completely right about the AI Lab's promised vision of the world: They claim to want to create superhuman intelligence, which will produce vast abundance. But superhuman intelligence would be extremely…
We have benchmarks for our use cases, and every generation after Gemini 2.0 Flash has been a grim hit on price/performance. Costs have gone up, throughput has gone down, and performance has improved very slightly (and…
As a professional programmer entering the final third of an enjoyable career, I would now place "learning to code" in the same category as "making a living as a poet." As in, it's truly enjoyable art and some people…
Frontier models like Fable are mostly useful if you want to paste in one or two prompts, and receive a subtly broken application that looks impressive. That is very hard to do with local models today. What current local…
By "blew it with Washington" you mean "Didn't donate millions to the ballroom."
> The same change could be affected by e.g. schools and businesses agreeing to open at 8am instead of 9am. School starts at 8am everywhere that I know of in northern New England and always has? Does school start at 9am…
Yeah, as someone who lives in Vermont, you could talk me into permanent DST. That would move the winter sunset from, say, 4:21pm to 5:21pm, which would mean I'd get enough twilight for a short walk after work. And Maine…
> I saw what I forgot immediately; but soon after, with engagement, I saw how quickly I was able to remember. We actually have pretty good models for how long it takes to forget things. It's the same basic math that…
> It's best not to blame the students. They are good at optimizing metrics; that's how they ended up here in the first place. As an alumnus of Dartmouth College's CS program, I am sad to hear that my alma mater has…
> The penalty for cheating should be automatic expulsion. Historically, the penalty for cheating at Dartmouth was a 9-month suspension for a first offense (no matter how small, in theory), and permanent "separation from…
> May be it is that we are ingenious amd creative with tools and thats how we evolve. And every time you use the AI to be ingenious or creative, that will be added to the training data. Then someday the AI can be…
A GPU with 24GBs of RAM is mostly useful for running a very carefully squeezed Qwen3.6 27B (4-bit Unsloth quants, 8-bit K/V cache, possibly MTP, 128k context). This is a fun little model that's smart enough to do…
> If so, the thinking trace can be sort of nonsensical for a reader, though whether this is an idiosyncrasy of the model or a property of LLMs in general isn't clear to me yet. Yes, several models think in weird jargon.…
The difference is that a compiler is a rigorous, (nearly) determinisic, heavily tested artrifact built by expert humans. I have only encountered genuine code generation bugs in compilers twice in my career. And yes,…
> Telling people “you must read all the code generated by an LLM” is definitely meaningful—but it is not at all moderate (so most people won’t do it). I am honestly heartbroken to live in a world where reading the code…
Lol, no. I've always sounded like that, and there are decades of my writing online. Also, FWIW, Pangram scores my writing as entirely human. Claude's writing isn't easy to identify because it uses em-dashes and bulleted…
Claude's writing style is at least as distinctive as any human's personal style. It has a long list of favorite words, verbal tics and common structures. On top of that, LLM writing is often bad in a very particular…
This varies enormously by where you live. I live out in the countryside. If I run into someone in the road, I will nod my head, maybe introduce myself, and maybe chat, if the other person is interested. (To be fair, I…