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New comment by adam_patarino in "Claude Opus 4.8"

adam_patarino — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:14:02 +0000

Smaller models can already outperform SOTA and massive models on specific tasks / domains.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

adam_patarino — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:17:03 +0000

I like Zed for this. We are considering autocomplete for Rig after we launch our agent. Local would be 1000x faster.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

adam_patarino — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:22:56 +0000

Individual experience is rarely an accurate representation of the broader system.

New comment by adam_patarino in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

adam_patarino — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:14:43 +0000

Completely agree. It amazes me how some folks think AI is unlike any other technology revolution. History repeats.

New comment by adam_patarino in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

adam_patarino — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:55:26 +0000

> Every software developer knows that you can’t make projects go faster just by typing faster. If that were the case we would all be taking typing lessons.

So well said.

AI is unveiling how the bureaucracy is the slow part.

New comment by adam_patarino in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

adam_patarino — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:03:18 +0000

I’ve been talking to a lot of engineers about how they use AI in their day to day and it’s dramatically different than what you see from the hypers.

The vast majority use one agent at a time and careful step through code. The main benefit they report is often about researching the codebase and possible solutions.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Claude for Small Business"

adam_patarino — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:55:08 +0000

Gusto makes payroll zero clicks.

I’ve used xero and quickbooks and they integrate with many banks and expense management platforms to automate closing.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Claude for Small Business"

adam_patarino — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:34:51 +0000

Closing books and running payroll feel like solved problems with today’s saas and high stakes if you mess up.

This is one of those areas I would spend more time checking the outputs than it would take me to click the button myself.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

adam_patarino — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:41:24 +0000

It highlights the extremes the anthropic team adopts LLMs in their workflow.

I think most of us live somewhere in the middle, using the right tool / output for the job.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

adam_patarino — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:52:49 +0000

Sometimes I think Valve is just showing off

New comment by adam_patarino in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

adam_patarino — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:45:40 +0000

Diamond hands?

New comment by adam_patarino in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

adam_patarino — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:58:11 +0000

Most workforce reductions are using AI as a cover up for greedy short term bonuses.

Any exec using AI to pay fewer people lacks imagination.

New comment by adam_patarino in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

adam_patarino — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:55:00 +0000

The explanations are all fine.

But they come after the team gaslit everyone, telling us it was a skill issue.

New comment by adam_patarino in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

adam_patarino — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:53:07 +0000

It’s certainly #2. They have shown over dozens of decisions they move very quickly, break stuff, then have to both figure out what broke and how to explain it.

New comment by adam_patarino in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

adam_patarino — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:51:31 +0000

Token anxiety is real mental overhead.

New comment by adam_patarino in "DeepSeek v4"

adam_patarino — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:46:59 +0000

Prices are not just hard cost of inference. Training costs are not equal. Chinese labs have cheaper access to large data centers. I also suspect they operate far more efficiently than orgs like openAI.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

adam_patarino — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:26:50 +0000

Either they vibe coded a test that was extremely broken.

Or they vibe wrote some bullshit to try and back pedal.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

adam_patarino — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:24:33 +0000

What are you guys subscribed to if not Claude? Copilot? Or is everyone legit bringing their own license?

New comment by adam_patarino in "Compressing LLMs with progressive pruning and multi-objective distillation"

adam_patarino — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:48:08 +0000

Compressing a mixture of experts model to fit on smaller hardware with a reinforcement learning approach called Self-Distillation Policy Optimization, progressive expert pruning, multi-objective knowledge distillation, speculative decoding, and custom quantization.

Compressing LLMs with progressive pruning and multi-objective distillation

adam_patarino — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:48:08 +0000

Article URL: https://rig.ai/blog/compressing-a-model-to-run-locally

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848030

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