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KerrAvon··on Sonnet 5.5
what was the problem with 5? to me, it seemed like the first Opus since 4.6 that was a real step up in intelligence without any obvious downsides
KerrAvon··on When did Google get so weird?
Wikimedia's entry:

https://give.org/charity-reviews/other-charitable-organizati...

literally says it meets standards and all the items green? is there a leaderboard somewhere you're referring to?

edit: s/the board/all the items/ for clarity

KerrAvon··on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
DS 4.1 Flash absolutely has guardrails. Maybe not ones as effective as some models.
KerrAvon··on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
>They will after a few incidents where unguardrailed local models are used to hack and stop the water supply.

This is irrational AI fearmongering. Please read https://sharptext.net/2026/some-of-all-fears/

> Market places where drugs/guns are sold are not, they are all infiltrated and shut down after a while.

might want to look up "gun show loophole"

KerrAvon··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
There are pictures, dude. What is wrong with you?
KerrAvon··on Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
Haiku should rethink that AI rule. Put very high code quality gates in place, sure, but Haiku in particular is a very low-velocity project and AI could help them so much. There is no reason you can't produce high-quality code with AI conformant to your style guidelines and structural preferences, it just takes a lot more effort than the slop.
KerrAvon··on Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
I think it'll need a compelling DAW to make that a reality.
KerrAvon··on No AI Fridays
Not entirely sure what point you're trying to make, so maybe this is not relevant to it, but, in 2026, satellite emergency support makes it seem irresponsible to not take your iPhone if you value your life or have other people in your life who would miss you if you were gone.
KerrAvon··on Stopping the smart TV from being used against you
100%. LGs work perfectly well in this role.
KerrAvon··on Stopping the smart TV from being used against you
FWIW, I'd bet you'd never have noticed the difference.
KerrAvon··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
it is once again time to balance out paulg sycophancy https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
KerrAvon··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
top comment right now on this very page: "But actual results inside phone with smartphone cooling and wattage requirement became close to 3300"
KerrAvon··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
What's amazing is that all of these are true at once. If you allow for some significant slack in what "superintelligence" means.
KerrAvon··on Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
> the 24GB card that's been sitting in gaming PCs since 2022.

I'd wager most people have less. In 2022 a 3080 might have 12 GB if you were lucky, 10 if you weren't -- and you paid for the privilege. A current RTX 5080 is only 16GB.

KerrAvon··on Claude: System Prompts
> Claude deserves respectful engagement and needn't apologize when the person is unnecessarily rude: accountability without self-abasement, excessive apology, self-critique, or surrender. If the person becomes abusive, Claude doesn't become increasingly submissive. The goal is steady, honest helpfulness: acknowledge what went wrong, stay on the problem, maintain self-respect.

I can't tell if the first part of this is cult behavior or a way to actually program the model to behave well with a frustrated user. Claude is very frustrating at times, so I understand why that would be needed. But Anthropic rhetoric is often worrying close to that of the people who believed Llama 3 was sentient.

KerrAvon··on Qwen 3.8 27B
If I'm doing the math right, that's like 17 t/s? I haven't played with Qwen 3.8 yet, but that seems really slow for a 27B on an M5 Max with sufficient RAM to hold it in memory.
KerrAvon··on Grok 4.6
So have you looked at what's happened in the US over the past 10 years?

The US has much further to fall, but it's falling very, very quickly and if there's ever another Democratic president they're going to have to rebuild a lot of the government from scratch.

KerrAvon··on Grok 4.6
Tesla has lost both house battery and car sales in my family -- we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars -- simply because we don't trust him not to remotely shut off our power/cars for petty political reasons.

Also, if you want true privacy you should run AI models on local hardware. (Guess which country's models dominate SOTA/near SOTA open weights? Yes, it's China, and it's not even close. You can run full-fat DeepSeek locally for (just) under $10K USD.)

KerrAvon··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Funny, the Germans said the same thing a long time ago!
KerrAvon··on Taste Is All That's Left
This was the basic theory behind Tesla eventually being able to stop killing Tesla drivers with FSD. It has not worked out.
KerrAvon··on I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
They don't control that. Pricing is controlled by the question of when RAM is once again made of semiconductors instead of unobtainium.
KerrAvon··on I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
this is not how it's going to go if OpenAI and Anthropic get their way and the US outlaws use of open-weight models
KerrAvon··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
The US is still fixable if young people will just fucking vote. Irreparable damage has been done, which means the old structures are gone, but they can be replaced with new ones -- a hypothetical Democratic president would need to clean house top to bottom. Obama's greatest flaw was that he didn't see the need to do that after Shrub.
KerrAvon··on Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
You're making assumptions that aren't supported if you read the actual lawsuit.
KerrAvon··on Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
We're on the cusp of Kimi K3 becoming usable on sub-10k hardware.

https://github.com/gavamedia/deltafin

KerrAvon··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
128 isn't enough, but if this report is accurate, the next Mac Studio could run it

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/m5-ultra-mac-studio-202...

KerrAvon··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
IME: Gemma is not great for programming, but it is fantastic at following directions compared to anything else in its size class.
KerrAvon··on Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
"Better things aren't possible" is a terrible outlook. There have been real improvements in this space, such as passkeys, and recognition that some of this stuff, like frequent password changes, is counterproductive.
KerrAvon··on Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)
It's actually a little harder than people outside the UI framework space might think (there's really not a lot of time per frame; it's easy to put too much work where it doesn't belong; it's easy to regress if you're not monitoring for it after code changes).

It's core to usability at this point, though. They should make the effort.

KerrAvon··on Advertise in ChatGPT
It's relevant politically, and the discussion in question is political.
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