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New comment by abalashov in "Claude for Small Business"

abalashov — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:40:12 +0000

> Once they hit a wall, that is where you find out whether they are motivated or not

Yep. That has to happen first.

New comment by abalashov in "Claude for Small Business"

abalashov — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:39:43 +0000

Because it's "easy"?

New comment by abalashov in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

abalashov — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:20:46 +0000

Yeah, I know. Was just throwing it out to see what folks would say based on their idea of useful.

New comment by abalashov in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

abalashov — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:21:05 +0000

They kept telling us Soviet central planning was inefficient and ineffective, while the lean rationality of the free market something something...

New comment by abalashov in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

abalashov — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:49:37 +0000

How much would one have to invest in hardware to feasibly run a usefully large Kimi K2.6?

New comment by abalashov in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

abalashov — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:41:37 +0000

Why do you... seem so sure that this is a ridiculous statement?

New comment by abalashov in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"

abalashov — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:41:54 +0000

I am impressed that Graeber made his way into this conversation (and the author's article), and really appreciate your take.

I think about "Bullshit Jobs" every time I hear someone tell me how lean, efficient and rational the free-market private sector is compared to socialist central planning. In many senses, it is of course true, but it's not quite as true as one might believe at first glance.

New comment by abalashov in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

abalashov — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:57:22 +0000

I self-host because I'm not training some model for free with our and our customers' proprietary code.

New comment by abalashov in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

abalashov — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:54:34 +0000

Go is less a language than a philosophy. It was an angry reaction to 10,000 ways to do things, and overly clever (ahem, expressive) syntactic sugar.

It is quite boring to write, but very easy to read.

Not a Go fanatic. I use Go and various other languages, and was a decade and a half late to the Go party anyway. Just trying to explain the outlook.

New comment by abalashov in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

abalashov — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:53:41 +0000

And they have a suspiciously well-appointed MCP server.

New comment by abalashov in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

abalashov — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:53:09 +0000

I have an M4 Max MBP with w/128 GB of RAM, and have been very into local models. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has been very kind to me for almost any purpose. No, it's no Opus 4.7, but it's shockingly good, and I don't have to share my code with Dario.

New comment by abalashov in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

abalashov — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:36:51 +0000

You'd be surprised how far you can get with self-hosted Gitea.

New comment by abalashov in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

abalashov — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:35:13 +0000

This is an unexpectedly apt comparison, and I appreciated it.

New comment by abalashov in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

abalashov — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:20:52 +0000

That sort of syntactic sugar goes against the Go philosophy. Don't get me wrong, I share your frustration, but I also see the value of consistency in their philosophy.

New comment by abalashov in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

abalashov — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:19:42 +0000

I laughed hard!

New comment by abalashov in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

abalashov — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:08:16 +0000

That may indeed look like quite the speed-up. But the accumulated errors and entropy in such an enterprise will eventually cause a cave-in, at which point the productivity metrics don't look so good.

New comment by abalashov in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

abalashov — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:50:37 +0000

This is exactly my conclusion, to the letter.

New comment by abalashov in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

abalashov — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:48:56 +0000

No, humans don't produce 100% reasonable code, but the nature of human mistakes, foibles and unreasonableness is very different from the kind slop farming yields.

New comment by abalashov in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

abalashov — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:36:30 +0000

It's nice to know I'm not alone in this. I have definitely used slop as inspiration by negative example.

New comment by abalashov in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

abalashov — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:35:31 +0000

I went back to writing code by hand quite some time ago and cannot say there has been any loss of velocity or productivity for it.

I really do think this whole thing is a wash.