abalashov

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by abalashov 4d ago
> It’s a beautiful Saturday morning with my family here in the East Bay - I don’t know how many more Saturdays I’ll be able to play outside with my kids in the sunshine so I’m going to make the most of the time we have. I don't know
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by abalashov 4d ago
Allow me to recommend switching to Kimi K3 / GLM 5.3 / DeepSeek. I use all three for the better part of a year now (DeepSeek via the Reasonix harness) and haven't touched Claude Code in at least as long.
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by abalashov 4d ago
The best take is, of course, from Jason Gorman, who, when the fearsome "capabilities" of Mythos originally dropped, said this: "Claude Mythos is that guy down the pub who is so good at karate that if he used it on you, you&#x
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by abalashov 1mo ago
The problem hasn't been solved, and, by the very nature of what LLMs are, can't be. However, it has gotten a lot better, as models have got much larger and pretraining more sophisticated. Part of the difficulty--not in solving, bu
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Market failure! Market failure is the term you're looking for. Also see: childcare, healthcare, many forms of public transport and social infrastructure. Some things markets simply cannot deliver well, and that's okay. Daycare is
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Evidence of what?
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by abalashov 2mo ago
I wish I shared your optimism. For the sake of the accused, I hope you're right, but I could see them really doubling down on this.
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Oh, I 100% agree. I'm imagining the case where someone asks an LLM to do trivial things just for the novelty, or because they are fatigued of thinking + typing, but conceptualise the thing they are putting off as primarily a problem of
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Based on the way they live-tweeted (as it were) their rewrite and their other publicity stunts? Yes, actually.
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by abalashov 2mo ago
> Perhaps all this activity is paying down some of that debt. Perhaps. But were that the case, one would think they'd be quite eager to say so.
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by abalashov 2mo ago
I did suspect that the triumphalist pronouncements, and even the seemingly honest and forthright deep dive, were a little premature. This is a key problem with LLM exuberance: it's very tempting to trade on decades of experience in sof
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by abalashov 2mo ago
I don't know that this starts with LLMs, though LLMs are certainly--at least for some people--a way to take their ADHD tendencies further. It's been obvious to me even since I was a computer-addled kid, in the 90s, that the way co
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Yes, but we have far fewer reasons to think otherwise, since we don't know anything--if you're talking about Americans.
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Hard to say. Advertisements have at least a pretense of persuasive intent. Propaganda mostly operates in the absence of contrary information.
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by abalashov 2mo ago
> There is way too many mixed marriages etc. for any reasonable Russian to believe that their formerly-closest East Slavic neighbour has turned into a Fourth Reich. Exactly. The distortions in American public life are quite a bit more in
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Recognising that there is propaganda != being deeply savvy about what the propaganda is. However, I've found it to be an article of faith in America that the US just doesn't engage in that kind of thing--less so in recent years, a
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by abalashov 2mo ago
As a Russian, I deeply appreciate this. In Russia, it seemed obvious to even the most parochial peasant that there was propaganda, while in America, the vast majority of the society not only fails to consider the possibility, but is choleri
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by abalashov 2mo ago
I have an MBP M4 Max 128 GB and have encountered these very limitations, though many are averted by using Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. I'm also not sure there's a magical harness out there that obviates these limitations.
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Oh, okay. Didn't know that, as I haven't tried K3 myself -- I'm quite content with Kimi K2.7-Code for the moment, which OpenRouter serves me to via US-based inference providers. Supposedly. Obviously, not relevant if your rea
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Try the OpenRouter route! https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3
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by abalashov 2mo ago
I just pay metered usage via OpenRouter. I've spent no more than $10-$20/mo, but my usage is, by the standards of so-called "agentic coding" these days, very light and confined. I doubt my workflows match the profile of
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Yeah, but the trillion dollars are not concentrated in the Linux kernel project, but instead distributed all over the planet. That's not how the AI lab economy works.
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by abalashov 2mo ago
I've been using Kimi for coding tasks for close to six months now, and haven't looked back. I'll periodically try something on Claude to make sure I'm not missing anything, but I've been very happy. I just do the Op
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Thank you! This looks like it might be the ticket.
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Hey, there has to be a legitimate use-case somewhere. Thank you!
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by abalashov 2mo ago
Does it?
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by abalashov 2mo ago
You would think it would be that straightforward. However, accurate synchronisation on GPS or temporal attributes would be required. Judging by the paucity of software to do this, historically, it is not a straightforward problem, or all th
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by abalashov 2mo ago
As a cyclist (and former racer), I still want to know how to capture videos with telemetry overlays (speed, power, HR, etc) from my head unit in a straightforward way. NorCal Cycling's videos - https://www.youtube.com/@
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by abalashov 2mo ago
My use of "worldly knowledge" might have been sloppy. I really meant "real-time worldly knowledge". The American chatbot apps are just very polished on live web search and tool use, and the models are very eager to do it
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by abalashov 2mo ago
I switched to exclusively Chinese models, mostly Kimi, many months ago. I'll still ask Claude questions that require ambitious real-time web search / worldly knowledge, but for just about anything else, the Chinese models have bee

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