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New comment by gymbeaux in "Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware"

gymbeaux — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:13:25 +0000

My understanding is both USB 4 and TB use PCIe tunneling. Surely at this price point we’re looking at a USB 4 device. Thunderbolt has historically cost more due to licensing, which is now free I believe, but there’s still specialized hardware and requirements manufacturers need to adhere to.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware"

gymbeaux — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:54:48 +0000

It’s an incredibly dumb implementation and it feels like yet another case of “AI startup gettin’ while the gettin’s good”. It’s the dotcom bubble all over again. Do anything with AI and people will buy what you’re selling.

The RX 9060 has a TDP of 160W, but that’s the high end of what you can continuously draw from the 12v DC plug in a car, so it looks like they cap it at 100W. It has to be on the floor or under the passenger seat because it has to plug into that 12v outlet that’s usually in the front.

Things will get caught by the fan blades, and passengers will inadvertently kick it. Hopefully suddenly losing connection to the GPU won’t cause the car to hit a pedestrian or anything like that.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

gymbeaux — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:37:14 +0000

What would happen to Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, if tomorrow someone released an open weights model on HuggingFace that matched performance and accuracy of Opus 5 running locally on an RTX 5070? That won’t happen tomorrow, but it will likely happen someday… what’s the plan beyond “don’t be the one holding the bags?”

New comment by gymbeaux in "Claude Seems Down"

gymbeaux — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:25:39 +0000

We’re in the phase of society where we will just build something like this ourselves using an LLM and it will be built exactly how we want it and we don’t have to worry about malicious code or forking it and hoping the owner will merge our PR… it’s sad but that’s where we are for anything the size of a menu bar that pings a URL every minute.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Claude Seems Down"

gymbeaux — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:23:45 +0000

But they’re slower (and benchmark worse) than Opus, GPT, et al. Why?

New comment by gymbeaux in "Claude Seems Down"

gymbeaux — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:23:08 +0000

Kimi and DeepSeek are impressive for their size but still run slow on any hardware you or I would have. If you’re proposing we run those via a cloud service, I don’t see a reason to do that when it’s an inferior model and I still have to pay per token for it.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Gloomberb"

gymbeaux — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:51:08 +0000

When I see new software now, my first thought is an LLM wrote it and it makes me not want to use it. I also assume there are bugs and it’s not particularly feature-rich.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

gymbeaux — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:46:36 +0000

I look at all the “role model” esque people in my life - they’ve all been fired from a job at least once. There are also plenty of people I know who I wouldn’t consider role model esque who are simply lousy employees (and probably get fired many more times than the “role model” types). I say role model types simply to mean “people who you would be surprised to learn were fired from their job”.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

gymbeaux — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:43:25 +0000

Stigma meaning others judging you for being fired. High level “no one” wants to hire someone who was fired from their last job. I’m just saying in my experience everyone gets fired sooner or later, regardless of their abilities, job performance, social skills, et. Al.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout"

gymbeaux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:08:57 +0000

LLMs are incredibly inefficient and can never be “100% accurate” so we have effectively seen what they can and can’t do already. If LLMs haven’t taken your job by now, they aren’t taking your job.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

gymbeaux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:07:24 +0000

Everyone who could be considered a role model in my life has been “laid off” (fired) at least once. These are successful people. They’re all millionaires (not just the retired ones). We need to get over the fear and stigma of getting fired. It means nothing except your boss didn’t like you.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

gymbeaux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:04:58 +0000

But what if all your coworkers are doing it, so by taking the time to understand and review LLM output you’re painting a target on your back? Anyway I’m not getting burned- the company is.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future"

gymbeaux — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:04:37 +0000

This made me think of how we have to manually block certain devices (usually smart TVs) so they don’t “phone home” and show us ads and so forth. I see your switch being banned as a sort of mixed blessing. It’s liberating in a way. I wonder if there’s some way to use a proxy to self host the software patches. We had something similar on the PS3 homebrew scene.

New comment by gymbeaux in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

gymbeaux — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:41:44 +0000

I often use LLMs to build locally running web apps and console apps that I otherwise never would have built, because the value-add wouldn’t be worth, say, 40 hours of my free time.

New comment by gymbeaux in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

gymbeaux — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:56:33 +0000

I just sold an RTX 3090 (released in 2020) for $1000. It should have been more like $200. I don’t see a point in running local LLMs with it but plenty of other people disagree, or want to “play around”. It’s so old that I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d be glad to have it- even if local LLMs ultimately catch up to the cloud frontier models (Opus, et al.). In a world where I can run Claude Opus 4.8 on an RTX 3090 at reasonable speeds, Anthropic doesn’t need even 1/20th the GPUs it has and it will dump them on the secondary market.

New comment by gymbeaux in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

gymbeaux — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:08:55 +0000

I would imagine Anthropic et al. are largely leasing land/buildings, so as the other commenter said… must be the server racks that are acting as collateral (if anything). Generally enterprise hardware depreciates very harshly. I’m used to paying $10 for Intel Xeons that once retailed for over $5,000. I expect to pick up some NVIDIA Blackwell 6000s for $100 each someday.

New comment by gymbeaux in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

gymbeaux — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:28:44 +0000

He was an established prodigy before he needed in-home nursing care. I suspect he’d have been taken care of regardless of access to socialized healthcare.

New comment by gymbeaux in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

gymbeaux — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:26:37 +0000

You’re assuming supply and demand is logical or efficient but like the stock market it’s often irrational and driven by some C Suite who doesn’t know what he’s doing. FAANG blew billions over hiring software engineers in 2021-2022 and often paid engineers to do effectively nothing for months or years. Despite their very high salaries, these individuals contributed nothing to society in exchange.

New comment by gymbeaux in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"

gymbeaux — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:08:50 +0000

Oh wow. Are they just repackaging official Windows patches or are they patching vulnerabilities themselves?

New comment by gymbeaux in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

gymbeaux — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:47:31 +0000

Yes, I’ve found my coworkers won’t admit they had AI write their code in any sort of group setting yet they’ve all admitted it in private. The implication seems to be if AI is writing your code you’re lazy/incompetent/bad/not working anywhere near 40 hours/week. I for one would hate for our bosses to figure out we do probably ~16 hours of actual work per week. But we all “get our stuff done” (thanks to AI).