I was a little suspicious last time, but even moreso this time. The slant their scores take, and the release timing is very suspect. On the other hand, new models drop on a near daily basis, so maybe there's no way to…
Out of curiosity do you happen to use a shell other than bash? I've noticed that all models, both local and cloud ones, tend to make much more mistakes if using, say, zsh.
Interesting report, qwen3.8-fn does seem pretty prone to hallucinating user inputs. Haven't tried the other models in the gen to know if they're all like that. To me it feels a bit extreme to jump to nefarious reasoning…
I've been pretty satisfied with OpenCode 2
The point of having advisors was supposed to be that they would help the elected person make up for lack of knowledge, but it doesn't seem like that pans out in reality. Either the advisors are just as lost, or they are…
System prompt changes help, but ultimately they don't do a great job of overcoming the model's learned tendencies in my experience.
My reasoning is that if something is argumentatively incorrect, it is much easier to drill down to its misunderstanding and correct it On the other hand, if it's sycophantically incorrect, it'll just change its "mind"…
I always appreciate when a model does that. It's amusing, but also having it be argumentatively wrong is a lot less annoying than being sycophantically wrong.
Being hosted in the US is not necessarily enough. I am not allowed to use them even if I run them on my own work-provided computer.
It's 'sustainable' because there's enough regulatory risk to using Chinese models that many will avoid them, and a 3T parameter model is still a bit beyond even many enthusiasts for running locally.
If they made a concerted effort to replace leaders in several industries, they'd likely lose customers faster than they could expand. After Anthropic's report that showed how much detail they were willing to expose…
I find this very hard to believe, even though I use plenty of frontier AI in my dev process. I have to live in vscode to get things done because I still frequently need to look at the generated code and point out issues…
Why do we keep having to sacrifice our freedom for the fake safety of the ignorant and their continued freedom to be ignorant? Why do we have to be lectured on how important this change is for their safety, while the…
I had some zigbee outlets laying around but wasn't interested in doing the config work to give Claude access to my mqtt broker. I already had most of the kernel written by hand years ago, so PXE etc were irrelevant, the…
I may have overreacted, but jumping from "we should probably ban this research preemptively because it might pose difficult questions later" to comparisons to Unit 731 when someone disagreed, reminded me of the way…
It's just an extension of Dario's brand of brainrot where consciousness has an almost religious existence that just pops out if you have a large enough system. No proof is required beyond psuedoscientific tests and the…
I built a little harness for an x86 SBC for Claude to do osdev a few months ago. Janky setup with two ESPs for the serial terminal and to control a servo taped to some microswitches to power cycle the board. It worked…
Calling it "American civilization" seems wrong too when the president and his bootlickers frequently attempt to supress negative coverage and call for things that are very blatantly against the first amendment, let…
With the way the world is nowadays, maybe a fascist hellhole really is more human to the average idiot.
Do you not do any good deeds unless they directly benefit you?
Yes, I feel Qwen3.8-FN is the first model that seriously can replace some lower tier subscription usage without requiring much more than a high end gaming PC. Qwen3.6-35B was impressive but not quite good enough, and…
It also works for flash models that push what capability is reasonably available locally, eg with Qwen3.8-flash, Qwen3.8 27B and GLM5.3-flash.
Oh yeah, Space Bunny was awful, massive step back from even Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
People using API keys heavily, are either making enough money from whatever they're doing to afford Anthropic's high prices, or are using a mix of locally hosted and cloud-based models. E.g. using a cloud model as a…
A bit presumptuous to assume this is about PhDs leaving academia for cushy bigtech jobs. My coworkers are all PhDs, people whose PhDs were in topics like QCD working on completely unrelated computational physics,…
I was a little suspicious last time, but even moreso this time. The slant their scores take, and the release timing is very suspect. On the other hand, new models drop on a near daily basis, so maybe there's no way to…
Out of curiosity do you happen to use a shell other than bash? I've noticed that all models, both local and cloud ones, tend to make much more mistakes if using, say, zsh.
Interesting report, qwen3.8-fn does seem pretty prone to hallucinating user inputs. Haven't tried the other models in the gen to know if they're all like that. To me it feels a bit extreme to jump to nefarious reasoning…
I've been pretty satisfied with OpenCode 2
The point of having advisors was supposed to be that they would help the elected person make up for lack of knowledge, but it doesn't seem like that pans out in reality. Either the advisors are just as lost, or they are…
System prompt changes help, but ultimately they don't do a great job of overcoming the model's learned tendencies in my experience.
My reasoning is that if something is argumentatively incorrect, it is much easier to drill down to its misunderstanding and correct it On the other hand, if it's sycophantically incorrect, it'll just change its "mind"…
I always appreciate when a model does that. It's amusing, but also having it be argumentatively wrong is a lot less annoying than being sycophantically wrong.
Being hosted in the US is not necessarily enough. I am not allowed to use them even if I run them on my own work-provided computer.
It's 'sustainable' because there's enough regulatory risk to using Chinese models that many will avoid them, and a 3T parameter model is still a bit beyond even many enthusiasts for running locally.
If they made a concerted effort to replace leaders in several industries, they'd likely lose customers faster than they could expand. After Anthropic's report that showed how much detail they were willing to expose…
I find this very hard to believe, even though I use plenty of frontier AI in my dev process. I have to live in vscode to get things done because I still frequently need to look at the generated code and point out issues…
Why do we keep having to sacrifice our freedom for the fake safety of the ignorant and their continued freedom to be ignorant? Why do we have to be lectured on how important this change is for their safety, while the…
I had some zigbee outlets laying around but wasn't interested in doing the config work to give Claude access to my mqtt broker. I already had most of the kernel written by hand years ago, so PXE etc were irrelevant, the…
I may have overreacted, but jumping from "we should probably ban this research preemptively because it might pose difficult questions later" to comparisons to Unit 731 when someone disagreed, reminded me of the way…
It's just an extension of Dario's brand of brainrot where consciousness has an almost religious existence that just pops out if you have a large enough system. No proof is required beyond psuedoscientific tests and the…
I built a little harness for an x86 SBC for Claude to do osdev a few months ago. Janky setup with two ESPs for the serial terminal and to control a servo taped to some microswitches to power cycle the board. It worked…
Calling it "American civilization" seems wrong too when the president and his bootlickers frequently attempt to supress negative coverage and call for things that are very blatantly against the first amendment, let…
With the way the world is nowadays, maybe a fascist hellhole really is more human to the average idiot.
Do you not do any good deeds unless they directly benefit you?
Yes, I feel Qwen3.8-FN is the first model that seriously can replace some lower tier subscription usage without requiring much more than a high end gaming PC. Qwen3.6-35B was impressive but not quite good enough, and…
It also works for flash models that push what capability is reasonably available locally, eg with Qwen3.8-flash, Qwen3.8 27B and GLM5.3-flash.
Oh yeah, Space Bunny was awful, massive step back from even Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
People using API keys heavily, are either making enough money from whatever they're doing to afford Anthropic's high prices, or are using a mix of locally hosted and cloud-based models. E.g. using a cloud model as a…
A bit presumptuous to assume this is about PhDs leaving academia for cushy bigtech jobs. My coworkers are all PhDs, people whose PhDs were in topics like QCD working on completely unrelated computational physics,…