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New comment by dmezzetti in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering"

dmezzetti — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:20:42 +0000

As an open source maintainer, I can chime in on this.

With TxtAI, I've seen a large uptick in PRs (https://github.com/neuml/txtai/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+s...). While the extreme verbosity of Claude messages and commits is very annoying (plus the constant defending itself on why it's a bug), I do think it's a positive that more people are enabled.

It does require reviewing the PRs. Some can be tricky just like a human. For example I did merge this PR (https://github.com/neuml/txtai/pull/1136) and it would have completely broke search. But a human could also do that.

From an open source standpoint, I say the more the better. You just have to be willing to do the work to review and no not just having AI agents to review what the AI agents are submitting. There still needs to be a human in the loop, if you care about quality.

New comment by dmezzetti in "GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization"

dmezzetti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:54:12 +0000

Very interesting project! Are there benchmarks for the "compatibility mode" or are all the numbers for the Gigatoken API?

New comment by dmezzetti in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

dmezzetti — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:14:41 +0000

The recent abrupt removal of the ability to see who has starred a project isn't a good move. Things like this certainly erode trust.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/201209

New comment by dmezzetti in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

dmezzetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:03:57 +0000

I agree that Kokoro is a good TTS model.

If you're interested in an ONNX version and a permissively licensed TTS Tokenizer, I built a pipeline for that a while back: https://huggingface.co/NeuML/kokoro-base-onnx

New comment by dmezzetti in "Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks"

dmezzetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:33:21 +0000

100% agree on this.

I've been working on small local models for years with txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai). I've published close to 100 models that can run local for RAG, Agents, Vector Search and more (https://huggingface.co/NeuML/collections).

New comment by dmezzetti in "Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)"

dmezzetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:52:55 +0000

Interesting project. Happy to see someone who shares an interest in tiny vector embeddings models. I've worked on tiny (1MB - 4MB, 250K - 950K parameters) embeddings models called BERT Hash https://huggingface.co/blog/NeuML/bert-hash-embeddings

Keep up the great work!

New comment by dmezzetti in "Claude Science"

dmezzetti — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:34:47 +0000

Why does HN let OpenAI and Anthropic basically advertise but it throws down the gauntlet at a small developer like myself when we do "self promotion"?

Top 3 posts as of this moment are all about Claude.

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

dmezzetti — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:15:50 +0000

Local models are great for a lot of things past just software development. We need to move towards solving other real world problems vs just building software. I've been focused on that with TxtAI (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) for 6 years now.

New comment by dmezzetti in "Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)"

dmezzetti — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:53:05 +0000

Well-Read Students Learn Better: On the Importance of Pre-training Compact Models

Related paper that's a good read: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08962

New comment by dmezzetti in "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI"

dmezzetti — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:26:53 +0000

They have paid hosting - https://huggingface.co/enterprise and paid accounts. Also consulting services. Seems like a pretty good foundation to me.

New comment by dmezzetti in "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI"

dmezzetti — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:25:27 +0000

This is really great news. I've been one of the strongest supporters of local AI dedicating thousands of hours towards building a framework to enable it. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of it!

New comment by dmezzetti in "OpenAI should build Slack"

dmezzetti — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:49:45 +0000

Why keep relying on API services? If you'd like your own local AI integration with open providers like Rocket.Chat and Mattermost, check out txtchat (https://github.com/neuml/txtchat).

New comment by dmezzetti in "Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database"

dmezzetti — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:47:08 +0000

Very interesting!

It would be great to see how it compares to Faiss / HNSWLib etc. I'd will consider integrating it into txtai as an ANN backend.

New comment by dmezzetti in "Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II"

dmezzetti — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:17:08 +0000

Have you considered using something like claude code / opencode?

New comment by dmezzetti in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

dmezzetti — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:34:13 +0000

It's been an issue for a while and it's even bigger now in the age of AI. Lots of people use security as a way to "have their moment" and don't really care about adding value.

But scaring people off from security reports also isn't a great idea either.

New comment by dmezzetti in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

dmezzetti — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:31:16 +0000

It's too bad that Anthropic is so hostile to open source. It's a big missed opportunity for them.

New comment by dmezzetti in "Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side"

dmezzetti — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:31:59 +0000

Nice application, great work!

New comment by dmezzetti in "My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it"

dmezzetti — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:27:13 +0000

AI Development is good for those who want to do it. But not a terminal career decision for those who don't.

New comment by dmezzetti in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

dmezzetti — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:29:05 +0000

Two words: Open Source.

New comment by dmezzetti in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

dmezzetti — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:30:01 +0000

This change was happening well before LLMs. People were tired of being yelled at and treated poorly.

A cautionary tale for many of these types of tech platforms, this one included.