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Foobar8568··on Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP
Which model/quant/command line did you use? I can barely get 100 token/secs and for sure clearly not a full context. With vllm, I am limited to 130k tokens with vllm + nvfp4.
Foobar8568··on The AI Situation in Software Development
What IP? Everything can be duplicated within a 1week to a month...
Foobar8568··on The AI Situation in Software Development
Knowledge work has changed...But it doesn't solve company internal governance nor politics. When it takes anywhere between 2 weeks and 3months to do anything ( including approvals for non prod access) in most organizations...Code has never been the problem.
Foobar8568··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Considering the clusterfuck that is opus 5 or even fable, if Qwen 27B is trully better than Opus 4.7 Max, I will rejoice.
Foobar8568··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
I didn't like to use GPT for agentic coding, review yes, but with Opus 5, well I really can't stand anything of that model. I feel that sol xhigh is even better than fable.
Foobar8568··on Qwen3.8-2.4T
Mea-culpa, dry-multiplier generated crap and even more so on Gemma4.
Foobar8568··on Qwen3.8-2.4T
Gemma4 was released a few weeks ago? The problems are still there. Today I started using another "provider" and the problems disappeared. Thanks but no.
Foobar8568··on Qwen3.8-2.4T
I had several issues with unsloth gguf, even for models released a few months back like gemma 4, I have 0 confidence in their models, at this stage, I feel several uncensored are more reliable.
Foobar8568··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Right now, sol-xhigh is my favorite model. I feel that Opus 5 is dumber than 4.8. Fable is too expensive to do anything (limit of $50, started a prompt at $25, ended up at $75, is bullshit, but at least it's "free credits").

DeepSeek is okay for random API-based stuff, as it's cheap.

Local open models running on a 5090 are hit or miss. I feel that most GGUFs/quants are awful...

Foobar8568··on Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
And last time I have checked, you still can't run rerankers with it, yet you can download the models. See issue 3368, 2years old now.
Foobar8568··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
They didn't care about openmodels for a long while for some reasons... Now it hits their bottom line, mindshare and shareholders.
Foobar8568··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
I'd believe that the 90s on food industry was way worse than now in some ways, almost no control I suppose, already at least a decade of creating shareholders values etc.
Foobar8568··on Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost
What I find the most amusing is ... "AI code is crap". I think I heard enough time "this codebase is shit, we need a full rewrite" to know that no one agrees what is quality code.

Suddenly, everyone are expert writing the most elegant, clean and without bug code.

Foobar8568··on Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
I feel that Claude converge to more claudism while Chatgpt sounds more natural.

Both sucks in French but at least chatgpt prose is readable while Claude is awful.

Foobar8568··on NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
I know the feeling, I was triggered when I wrote it. Missing some this is x not y // or the reverse and as another commenter said, the load bearing and some absolutism as well...
Foobar8568··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
I don't live in the US, I live in Switzerland, and what happens in the US and Iran affects the world. And when I see this kind of shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ58s4bwzG0 ( bbc Donald Trump dons 'Trump 2028' hat and jokes about 'fourth term' ), I am like, what the fuck? Europeans as a whole didn't have much a great opinions of republicans but I don't even understand how a republican voter can vote for a russian asset who is using the constitution as toilet paper. At this stage, just turn directly to a fascist state and stop pretending.
Foobar8568··on NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
You were correct — it did brick the probe.

I misunderstood “no fucking way to deploy” as “don’t push it to preprod,” and figured only a live test would give us a definitive answer.

That one’s on me. I owe you an apology.

On the bright side, Voyager 2 died so Voyager 3 could be future-proof.

Foobar8568··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Fuck, there has been a class of workers who had faith in their careers? Beside Charlatans and Billionaires?
Foobar8568··on Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
AI is an accelerate tool for any organizations, management thinks it'll solve their organization issue because it accelerates it. Most often, it accelerates toward a wall.

Design is too expensive, we do agile. QA too expensive, we fire all of them, and claim devops is the now, which allows us to fire the Ops team too, 100% ownership from deisng to ops on devs.

One person with an agent can replace all these teams. Yeah mo profits.

Foobar8568··on Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
Western Europe is mostly consultancy, and the rate paid by client is usually higher, and doesn't matter if it's eastern Europe, Portugal or even India.
Foobar8568··on 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
Temporary revenues for decades to come.
Foobar8568··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
Depending of the thickness, but all you need is to take out your steak for 30min before hand to 1h, really hot pan, 2min on each side and voila. That will get you there 90% of the time. We do something similar to T-bone or beef ribs, but finish them in the oven.

Most people or even restaurant don't let their meat outside nor use an actual hot pan.

Foobar8568··on Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
Thank you for the github link, what is the license? I went briefly over several repo, unless I missed it somewhere the license was often missing.
Foobar8568··on Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
Considering the state of the field ( RAG/retrieval/evaluation) I have 0 trust in it, even more if it's closed source with bullshit claim like that.

Everything is vibe sloped to death, and dead after a few months to a couple of years (and not hard to be 100 cheaper than GPT-5.6 sol ... DS is basically free and I guess already 100 times cheaper or more, and here another slope ).

Foobar8568··on Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
Ahh so it's the 2025 name for CORBA? just kidding, I meant SOA /s

But your answer is the first one that seems to be relevant, so thank you.

Foobar8568··on Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
I still don't get MCP. Most likely because I didn't really check but the first feeling is creating a problem to solve a problem that doesn't exist in the first place.
Foobar8568··on AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
Opus 4.6 was already enough to tackle these projects vibe coding.
Foobar8568··on Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share
Typically European Union vs Europe.
Foobar8568··on Show HN: Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device
Playing that game reminded me of the level of concentration I needed to beat the levels in Battletoads in Battlemaniacs on the SNES. (I never played the NES version.)
Foobar8568··on They Stole Your Attention
And the article is skimmed in ... 47 seconds.
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