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Contributing to Open-Source in 2026

am17an — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:41:56 +0000

Article URL: https://am17an.bearblog.dev/contributing-to-open-source-software-in-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49431628

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New comment by am17an in "Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase"

am17an — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:31:51 +0000

It's expensive now, I expect once it is with inference providers it will be really dirt cheap. Then it would be truly be a "bicycle for the mind", which Fable promised to be except it proved to be too capricious for that.

New comment by am17an in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

am17an — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:14:13 +0000

Your username indeed checks out

New comment by am17an in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

am17an — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:31:49 +0000

I think we're saying the same thing? I said they are explicitly trained on these tasks, not that they are some separate models during programming RL, or business tasks RL.

> The cool thing is that training on diverse datasets improves scores on other downstream tasks, while the training objective is the same.

Maybe for some language modelling tasks, i.e. it learns some internal representation that is transferable. However I would find it quite odd if a model becomes good at Bio while not explicitly going through Bio training.

New comment by am17an in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

am17an — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:53:57 +0000

Have you looked at the what data companies (e.g. Scale, Mercor) hire for? Why do you think Meta records their employees every keystroke/mousestroke/eye-movement?

EDIT: just re-read your comment. I don't think you have a good understanding here, no offence.

New comment by am17an in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

am17an — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:26:09 +0000

> nor are they trained for each task individually.

They are explicitly trained for each task individually.

New comment by am17an in "Control the Ideas, Not the Code"

am17an — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:56:34 +0000

Having looked at his code, I doubt this.

New comment by am17an in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

am17an — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:26:30 +0000

llama 3? Are you from 2023?

New comment by am17an in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

am17an — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:12:58 +0000

Who is their right minds would be wedded to an identity of saying "No"? Code quality puritans are annoying but if they do their job right they actually speed-up the development process because they don't let technical debt accumulate. Ultimately saying "No" is protecting your codebase. In the era of LLMs, saying "No" is much easier because you don't have to worry about the author feeling bad.

New comment by am17an in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

am17an — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:01:28 +0000

Fair enough. I agree with you - although DS4 Pro is a GPT 5 class model which scores 46% on ARC-AGI-2[^1]. It's behind by maybe 9 months, I think it's still good enough for a lot of complex tasks as well. They definitely need to work on a "just fucking works" harness like CC/Codex. Also thanks!

[^1] https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/05/caisi-evaluati...

New comment by am17an in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

am17an — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:01:05 +0000

Did you read the OP when he's exactly chiding the model you're glazing?

New comment by am17an in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

am17an — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:31:12 +0000

This Claude front end skill is now soon to be slop.

New comment by am17an in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

am17an — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:01:32 +0000

People doing economics with the cloud GPUs, of course cloud GPUs are going cheaper. But also, is generating tokens all you do with your computer? I can play games on DGX spark and also do LLM inference, so sometimes the economics work out, apart from having fun with it.

New comment by am17an in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

am17an — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:50:46 +0000

Local models embody the hacker spirit, constant Claude glazing is spiritually incompatible with tinkering. Don't upload your spirit to the cloud.

New comment by am17an in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

am17an — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:34:05 +0000

No I mean more expensive, i.e. you're consuming vastly more tokens.

New comment by am17an in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

am17an — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:21:59 +0000

The cost being reduced is the cost of your labour. Tokens are only getting more expensive.

New comment by am17an in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

am17an — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:36:45 +0000

Sounds exhausting. Are your revenue numbers up?

New comment by am17an in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

am17an — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:46:48 +0000

Don’t underestimate the march of technology. Just look at your phone, it has more FLOPS than there were in the entire world 40 years ago.

New comment by am17an in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

am17an — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:48:11 +0000

Thank you, there are two things I would like to point out:

1) Google releasing something probably means they don't see it as important. 4-bit KV-cache quantization has been known for a long time. The fact there is almost a mass hysteria about this paper makes me think there is a lack of skepticism in this AI mania, even in relatively tech-savvy crowd.

2) But prices for memory companies are crashing! look around, the whole market is crashing.

New comment by am17an in "What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?"

am17an — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:58:48 +0000

There are techniques which already achieve great compression of the cache at 4 bit, eg using hadamard transforms. Going from 4 bit to 3 bit isn’t the great leap people expect this to be. It’s actually slower to run and is generally worse in practice.