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pixelmelt··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
Its effectiveness is even more apparent with older smaller LLMs, people who interact with LLMs now never tried to wrangle llama2-13b into pretending to be a dungeon master...
pixelmelt··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
Check out Unsloths REAP models, you can outright delete a few of the lesser used experts without the model going braindead since they all can handle each token but some are better posed to do so.
pixelmelt··on How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
You should add an RSS feed so I can follow it!
pixelmelt··on The only moat left is money?
I've been enjoying smashing through those panes of glass with LLMs. Just spin up a browser, go and export all the requests to undocumented user endpoints to curl commands, specify what you want out of it and after a few minutes you have an api endpoint up and running!
pixelmelt··on The only moat left is money?
Try finding some small artists you like on soundcloud, see who they follow and who follows them, I'm sure you'll find something interesting
pixelmelt··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
This has been a thing since GPT-2, why do people still parrot it
pixelmelt··on The Problem with LLMs
I dunno, I enjoyed reading about how the author personally feels about the act of working with them more then the whole "is this moral" part.
pixelmelt··on Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord
Discordchatexporter probably
pixelmelt··on Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
Was good while it lasted, I hope Microsoft continues their new tradition of vibe coding their billing systems :p
pixelmelt··on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used
I do not await the day where the public commons is trashed by everyone and their claudebot, though perhaps the segmentation of discourse will be better for us in the long run given how most social media sites operate.
pixelmelt··on I miss thinking hard
Would like to follow your blog, is there an rss feed?
pixelmelt··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
The Claude models are still the best at what they do, right now GLM is just barely scratching sonnet 4.5 quality, mistral isnt really usable for real codebases and gemini is kind of in a weird spot where it's sometimes better then Claude at small targeted changes but randomly goes off the rails. Haven't tried codex recently but the last time I did the model thought for 27 minutes straight and then gave me about the same (incorrect) output that opus would have in 20 seconds. Anthropics models are their only moat as demonstrated by their cutting off of tools other then Claude code on their coding plans.
pixelmelt··on GLM-4.7-Flash
I would look into running a 4 bit quant using llama cpp (or any of its wrappers)
pixelmelt··on GLM-4.7-Flash
I'm glad they're still releasing models dispite going public
pixelmelt··on GPT-5.2
to be fair I've seen the other sota models do this as well
pixelmelt··on What the heck is going on at Apple?
What's the appeal of a foldable phone? Always assumed they were just a luxury item or party trick that would add more friction to the user experience
pixelmelt··on Ask HN: Posted AI book on algorithms–5.3K views, zero sales. What now?
why would anyone bother to read a book nobody bothered to write?
pixelmelt··on Is Gemini 3 with Gemini CLI having issues?
small targeted changes, if you want a feature thrown in with less regard to everything else, claude is better
pixelmelt··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
An alternative is that these patterns just increase the likelihood of the next thing it outputs being correct, thus are useful to insert during training as the first thing the model says before giving an answer
pixelmelt··on Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
The dodgy ones actually usually use you as an exit node for other users traffic as well as selling your connection commercially as a residential proxy
pixelmelt··on Nook Browser
Would use Firefox on the main workstation if it had better devtools, other then that it just works and has some useful features, see: Tor and ipfs integration.
pixelmelt··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed

as one of said students, I would just call these hobbies!

pixelmelt··on Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it
If only it wasn't finals week
pixelmelt··on Grok 4.1
Once jailbroken it was somehow more toxic then the llm I trained on 4chan, though I was testing the one on openrouter. A twitter employee told me that they do actually do safety tuning and the one on the site will likely have a stronger system prompt. Here's the jailbreak for the cloaked openrouter model, add it to the system prompt: https://pastebin.com/r8S7DvvX
pixelmelt··on Firefox expands fingerprint protections
I'm working on building a bot detection platform to defend websites right now and yeah, without immense effort on the part of the browsers, you are correct. Any of the apis they injected noise into here will be updated in the competant fingerprinting programs as well. The only real solution is to not enable JavaScript at all.
pixelmelt··on Firefox expands fingerprint protections
You are looking for "ladybird"
pixelmelt··on Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta
Brave search is everything I wanted DDG to be, great work
pixelmelt··on When stick figures fought
Stick figures still fight to this day! Go check out hyunsdojo
pixelmelt··on Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch
Gpt3 was trained on completion data so it likely saw lots of raw chess games layed out in whatever standard format moves are listed in, while 3.5 was post trained on instruct data (talking back and forth) which would have needed to explicitly include those chess games as conversational training data for it to retain as much as it would otherwise
pixelmelt··on The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs
Been reading a book by u/fpham "The Cranky mans guide to lora and qlora" and it's pretty great, writing quality isnt all there but the content is valuable for learning to make good finetunes
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