Zambyte

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by Zambyte 3d ago
AGI isn't coming, because we've had it for years. People just expect AGI to look like sci-fi, and hold the artificials to higher standards of "general" and "intelligence" than the naturals. Luckily, AGI is pret
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by Zambyte 3d ago
They did more than let them. In an abstract way, they told them to. They gave it all of the training data it had at that point, and then it did the thing it was trained on. Of course they should be help liable for programming their computer
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by Zambyte 4d ago
I haven't noticed.
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by Zambyte 4d ago
The advantage of busses and bikes are that they can use the same roads we already built for cars. We don't need to build new infrastructure to make busses and bikes much better, we just need to limit car access. That can be done by sig
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by Zambyte 5d ago
Yup, same here. Been using Kagi for years. It's boring, it just works. Hoping they can stay that way.
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by Zambyte 5d ago
I'm American, and I don't normally drive, because I use busses, bikes, and trains to get to my destinations. I sold my last (hopefully ever) car over a year ago. I'm sorry to shatter the dreams of most Americans, but the worl
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by Zambyte 5d ago
The solution to car problems is not more cars. It's serious alternatives to driving. We don't need Chinese cars. We need trains, busses, and bikes.
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by Zambyte 5d ago
What about selling busses and trains, and buildings bike lanes and train tracks? Loans and cars aren't the solution to loans and cars, but there are solutions.
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by Zambyte 6d ago
I like to think of it as a how -> what -> why pipeline. Early programming in assembly mostly involved telling the computer how to do things that you want it to do. You instruct it in terms of the mechanical capabilities of the machi
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by Zambyte 6d ago
Can you back that up with numbers or do you just expect people to take your word that cyclists have killed about as many people as WWII? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties https://www.acad
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by Zambyte 6d ago
People would absolutely choose trains over flying if we actually had modern train infrastructure. NY to LA would be about 11 hours at 250 MPH. That's 100 MPH slower than the fastest passenger train, but seems like a reasonable estimate
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by Zambyte 7d ago
Now do China.
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by Zambyte 7d ago
My apartment overlooks a three way intersection. Drivers block the box almost every light cycle in rush hour. The most common traffic offense I see bikers make is riding on the sidewalk, which they obviously do because they fear being kille
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by Zambyte 7d ago
And ideally enough mass to violently crush their neighbors.
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by Zambyte 7d ago
Distilling is a massive achievement. I can run Qwen. I can't run GPT (TM). It's not a matter of X is better than Y. It's a matter of Y exists, X does not.
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by Zambyte 7d ago
I wonder if the prevalence of adblock has helped make a lot of things like this possible. Like, it's hard to imagine people putting up with this without literally protesting in the streets. But the people who can't tolerate it hav
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by Zambyte 8d ago
Advocating vs blaming. Blaming people for using inefficient vehicles when you eat red meat (assuming you eat enough red meat to have more of an impact than the fuel) is hypocritical. Advocating for better alternatives to inefficient vehicle
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by Zambyte 8d ago
Being flawed isn't the issue. Everyone is flawed. The issue is blaming people for problems like environmental damage, while at the same time needlessly causing more damage yourself. The problem is being hypocritical. Some people are ce
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by Zambyte 8d ago
The vast majority of people simply don't need SOTA models. I run most of my programming on a single 7900 XTX with Qwen 3.8 27b. I'm more interested in scaling out to run more instances of the model in parallel, than I am in scalin
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by Zambyte 9d ago
Unix philosophy: tools should be simple and composable Windows philosophy: don't get sued by AT&T
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by Zambyte 9d ago
Something else I want to add on to be more specific is that I use skills to document tasks that my model doesn't know how to do out of the box. For example, there is a jira cli[0] that I use for interfacing with jira. If I just say som
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by Zambyte 10d ago
Your agents.md is a good place for high level facts, but if you have something that requires a lot of info to explain (ie: if there is a complex build process, testing patterns, things like that), loading up your agents.md for every request
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by Zambyte 11d ago
AI is great for offloading problems that you don't want to solve, but you want done. The key is finding what problems you find important to solve yourself. At this point, roughly all the code I push is generated by AI. I find the code
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by Zambyte 11d ago
You can just add it in a user-level gitignore instead of ignoring it in every repo. See: ~/.config/git/ignore
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by Zambyte 11d ago
I found this ubder the Play it now! page. Funny name collision with the Scala programming language :) https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
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by Zambyte 11d ago
I wonder what data Elon is able to slurp up through the app that he can't get through the website. Seems like a good incentive to keep the site worse.
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by Zambyte 11d ago
I cut my Claude Code token usage by 100% by writing the code with Qwen 27B on my own GPU.
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by Zambyte 11d ago
hasn't*
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by Zambyte 12d ago
How can you define "general" and "intelligence" in a way that has existed for years now?
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by Zambyte 12d ago
Seconding the TUI usage. Opencode, codex, and pi are ones that I have / my friends have had success with using locally. I mostly use pi. It feels like the most "boring tool that just does its job" out of the big options.

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