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New comment by dreeseaw in "Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines"

dreeseaw — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:33:15 +0000

"This post is about what those ports buy, measured, and what they cost."

if you've done any amount of optimizaation or hill-climbing work (kernel optimization, autoresearch type shit), you would know that these models LOVE the terms "buy" and "cost" in this sense. they use them nearly constantly (along with "budget", and even "credit" (even when working with RL/credit assignment!))

New comment by dreeseaw in "Don't be a meat proxy"

dreeseaw — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:17:20 +0000

in the same vein, I have a coworker who's code reviews have magically transformed into stopping-the-world with all these great ideas for abstraction and insane edge cases... he must have gotten really good overnight!

but seriously, when I get a review like that, my first thought is that why would I read a summarized AI output, which I just did for 5 hours while whipping Claude to stop re-writing raft from scratch.

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