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RALaBarge

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Computer Person from Rural Michigan

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RALaBarge··on Graduate in 2036 as a AI engineer is it worth?
No, pick a skill useful for humans in meat space. I hope you and yours survive the water wars
RALaBarge··on Kimi K3-256k
You say hey llm spin up some agents to do x y and z
RALaBarge··on Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
At least they don’t make you stay till the end of the presentations to give you the software you actually came for
RALaBarge··on Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller
Not trying to be snide, but I copied and pasted their entire comment verbatim into google and it came up with Padauk PMS150C or Puya PY32 series
RALaBarge··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
I work for a router company too, I ran some tests on all of the cheapest models and came to the same outcome where a handful of small models ran together in conjunction outperform SoTA models -- outperforms in that it got a 95% vs a 94% and I bet that changes with the day of the week. Anyways, I did get a similar result in a different sort of measurement.
RALaBarge··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
I've been doing a lot of Trust and Safety and anti-scam stuff recently. When it was first re-released Fable wouldn't do anything for me, now I don't really run into refusals or what it used to do, just stop returning any data at all whatsoever.

Outside topic, but check out the Inkling model -- it is SUPER FAST and does a good job at being a terminal buddy but I would probably offload the real programming or hard tasks to fable or someone else

RALaBarge··on Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
Right, but it will get re-enabled on updates or something...it never stayed off for me.
RALaBarge··on Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
What have you been using?
RALaBarge··on Sam Neill has died
"What makes you think I'll miss?"
RALaBarge··on Sam Neill has died
Something that is burnt into me is saying "DO YOU SEE?", invoking the final lines of Neill in Event Horizon
RALaBarge··on Sam Neill has died
Yeah! Its a great movie if you dont try to nitpick stuff, which is hard for me to do on a lot of things too.

Neill: We can't just abandon this ship, we just found her Fishburn: I have no intentions of abandoning her. We will get far enough away from it and blow it up. Fuck this ship.

RALaBarge··on Write code like a human will maintain it
I think the biggest conceit here is the expectation that humans will continue to do this task in the medium to long term. This was good advice in the past but when inference is ubiquitous and most code ends up being Claudewritten anyways, there is little point. If you are writing C for NASA/ESA then yes of course. For the 99% of the rest of us, probably not so much in the coming years.
RALaBarge··on Write code like a human will maintain it
I like to also compliment the model on its very fashionable shoes as well, they love the flattery.
RALaBarge··on Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
I highly recommend the ground tofu for taco's, you would never know they are meatless.
RALaBarge··on Ditching Claude for OpenCode and OpenRouter
OpenCode is a great replacement harness…I use it with deepseek v4 and it is as good as Claude without it trying to sneak in Anthropic specific code
RALaBarge··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
You have an agent spawn the agents for you! You can ask Claude to do it for you, he is happy to use sonnet when you ask for grok and opus high when you ask for deepseek.
RALaBarge··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
It’s my daily driver in opencode
RALaBarge··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
An electric cloud with quantum effects that we also don’t fully understand. There will always be a layer deeper that we just do not know the effects of or what actually exists there or “under there”.
RALaBarge··on Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike
Billions of people on the planet, and not a single one of them would offer to do it?
RALaBarge··on A few words on DS4
They never should have trusted Qwark
RALaBarge··on I'm going back to writing code by hand
And it is only the beginning.
RALaBarge··on Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
Yeah then you can version lock changes to one thing post-evaluation vs or even easier as noted above, download the stdlib and host it yourself.
RALaBarge··on Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
I think we are stuck with LLMs. They are already in a place where they can find these issues in the first place. They can access RSS feeds. You could cron an agent to look to see if you are pwned as frequently as you want at literally almost zero cost. When you do ingest the libraries, keep a list and of what version and that can help as well.
RALaBarge··on Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight
It’s all about tooling, if the ai can fetch data it can do something rad with it. Use something like an ai harness to have an mcp server and other tooling to improve the harness and the tools I made this for my own learning: GitHub.com/ralabarge/beigebox
RALaBarge··on DeepSeek v4
Jingoism: Its such a rush!
RALaBarge··on GPT-5.5
Check out github.com/ralabarge/beigebox -- OSS AI Harness, started as a way to save all of my data but has agentic features, MCP server, point it at any endpoint (or use any front end with it as well, transparent middleware)

So far what I am finding is that you just get the basics working and then use the tool and inference to improve the tool.

RALaBarge··on GPT-5.5
We totally agree.

That's what I've been heads down, HUNGRY, working on, looking for investors and founding engineers pst: https://heymanniceidea.com (disclaimer: I am not associated with heymanniceidea.com)

RALaBarge··on GPT-5.5
YMMV but Grok 4.1 Fast can usually find via static analysis a few things that other models dont seem to catch with the same prompt
RALaBarge··on N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases?
I can say without a shadow of a doubt: yes.
RALaBarge··on All elementary functions from a single binary operator
I am like "Yeah ok, use the Arcee Trinity models!" and its like, you got it boss, 3 opus agents in parallel, got it!
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