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New comment by lqstuart in "Small Models Have Arrived"

lqstuart — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:50:57 +0000

It’s not hard to fine tune a 4B parameter model to outperform GPT-5.x or Claude on a domain-specific task. You don’t even need GRPO or whatever the flavor of the month RL technique is either. I suspect what you’re saying is that massive frontier models are the best for doing big slow tasks on human time horizons—and I emphatically agree—but keep in mind LLMs are useful for quite a bit more than just multi-turn chatbots; and in those instances, throwing infinite compute and latency budgets at a problem is generally not a great way to find the “best” solution :)

New comment by lqstuart in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"

lqstuart — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:05:58 +0000

Eventually, someone is going to do this in Minecraft

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

lqstuart — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:47:47 +0000

Worked for crypto altcoins, after a fashion, and these are almost entirely the same people

New comment by lqstuart in "GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix"

lqstuart — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:08:34 +0000

Netflix has imo the worst recommendations on the entire internet. They are a Java shop that’s 5-10 years behind the industry in AI, and now they’re trying to use the most grossly inefficient and overcomplicated method out there to try to be trendy instead of just using a DLRM like everyone else was in 2020. What could go wrong?

New comment by lqstuart in "Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01"

lqstuart — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:32:50 +0000

It’s honestly remarkable how prescient Peter Watts was

New comment by lqstuart in "Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom"

lqstuart — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:54:50 +0000

Not sure what you’re getting at, is that too many or too few? Terraform, building grafana dashboards, building internal UIs, provisioning the networking and dealing with security groups and routing tables, IT stuff like MDM/SSO/OIDC, not to mention the entire data and ML infra is easily 10 engineers. And in a startup they’d all be juniors and do an even more terrible half assed job than Claude. These are all very well established fields with ample documentation online, and honestly pretty simple tasks as long as you have senior people to feed it a design that isn’t stupid.

New comment by lqstuart in "Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom"

lqstuart — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:36:02 +0000

I’m at a very fast growing startup with real revenue and Fable has let us avoid hiring probably 6-10 full time software engineers with full salary and benefits. We’re spending nowhere close to that. I’m the hiring manager and I’m closing the reqs.

So.. great news for Anthropic, I’ll go ahead and let the elephant in the room go unaddressed

New comment by lqstuart in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

lqstuart — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:57:31 +0000

how do massively negative margins "collapse"

New comment by lqstuart in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

lqstuart — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:17:58 +0000

I think the gap here variation. Yes, people living 50,000 years ago were likely quite similar to _some_ people alive today, just probably not very similar to the types of people who are able to peacefully sit around on the internet and read history books for pleasure, who would most likely ask that question.

New comment by lqstuart in "Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins"

lqstuart — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:35:18 +0000

I feel like the real news story is kids protesting against school being closed

New comment by lqstuart in "Claude Fable 5"

lqstuart — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:54:06 +0000

It’s almost like they’re interchangeable. We need to start asking these models to solve extremely difficult, contrived DSA coding questions before deciding which ones we employ

New comment by lqstuart in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

lqstuart — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:48:07 +0000

I really like your core point. I don't know anything about Suno and that's what people are picking at, but I'll offer a supporting example from pre-LLM days: the number of people who were actually willing to dig through source code was nonexistent. I've worked in ML/AI since forever and I would say roughly 1 in 5 to 1 in 20 developers I've worked alongside were actually willing to just go to Github and look up why code might be failing and get to the bottom of it.

The same is true for LLMs. You can get Claude to spew 2,000 lines of garbage in 15 minutes, but the number of developers actually willing to sit there and reason over the output and make the tweaks--often very minimal tweaks--that make it go from 90% correct to 100% correct are vanishingly few. And it's typically just laziness and a lack of any kind of genuine interest in the field.

New comment by lqstuart in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

lqstuart — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:53:03 +0000

MSFT is also forcing its subsidiaries to “lean into AI” so that they can fire people to cover for Satya’s bad investments

New comment by lqstuart in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

lqstuart — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:55:01 +0000

Maybe one of the scientists who cashed out 8 figures will file a suit that OpenAI has wronged them by depriving them of the joy of working

New comment by lqstuart in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

lqstuart — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:58:45 +0000

This is really cool. One of my favorite parts of the internet is getting to see these kinds of projects by people who aren't afraid to tear into stuff and take it apart and put it back together.

But you do all that for privacy... and then you use CarPlay?

New comment by lqstuart in "Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time"

lqstuart — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:38:57 +0000

it hurts how true this is

New comment by lqstuart in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

lqstuart — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:45:20 +0000

Because LLMs fuck it up near-constantly and I need to review it

New comment by lqstuart in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

lqstuart — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:23:23 +0000

Not long ago I started having an issue with my eye. I called around and they said I should get seen ASAP, same day if possible, but it wasn’t worth the ER and it was a five day wait for an appointment.

I was pretty freaked out. During that time, I tried diagnosing it with AI. When I finally got to the appointment, the actual doctor sat down, looked at all the unremarkable images, asked me one (1) question, ordered another image and diagnosed the issue. When I looked back, in all that time, the AI had mentioned it exactly one time early on, ruled it out immediately based on a flawed understanding of the symptoms, and never brought it up again.

Just my anecdotal evidence, but I’d never trust any AI on its own. My doctor can use it if they want, I can’t.

New comment by lqstuart in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

lqstuart — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:13:42 +0000

It’s the ER. People aren’t always in a position to “chat” when they go there.

New comment by lqstuart in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

lqstuart — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:01:18 +0000

They both suck, but one of them literally harvests organs from political prisoners.

I’m honestly torn on which one I’d pick, but there’s a TON of likely state-sponsored pro-China propaganda on the internet, so I consider it a patriotic duty to push back for the sole reason that we can still freely talk shit about the one (for the time being, as long as you don’t mention the blessed martyr Charlie Kirk), whereas the other blocks the internet and imprisons people for dissent.