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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.

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…

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.

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 serve…

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 hum…

You don't have to have a monopoly to be monopolistic.

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.

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, becau…

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 applicatio…

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.

Or more simply just wrap some orchestrator in a single service file. Could just be a bash script used for ExecStart.

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 rea…

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 any…

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 …

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 influenc…

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 th…

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 l…

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 boug…

Private keys should never leave the device where they are created.

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 feedb…

To me, an old guy, I would rather have LLM doing (assisting with) the code review than the actual code production. Is that stupid?

I prefer not, because technically this socialist phase is part of capitalism currently.

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 t…

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…

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, highe…