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New comment by mitjam in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

mitjam — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:03:02 +0000

I would say 1-2 RTX 6000 Pro maxQ are more practical.

New comment by mitjam in "Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool"

mitjam — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:01:34 +0000

I feel that too :) With the license, you are right, and I like your stance of "expressed intent".

New comment by mitjam in "Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool"

mitjam — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:37:07 +0000

I like that you've started keeping your prompts in the repo [1]. Why have you deleted them, later on? What I find curious is how can something AI generated can be licensed AGPL?

[1]: https://github.com/c0m4r/kula/commit/ae3f8a8483c91fe8bd4ea2c...

New comment by mitjam in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

mitjam — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:45:42 +0000

Reminds me of the "Weird Al" Yankovic evergreen "Mission Statement": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

New comment by mitjam in "Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs"

mitjam — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:00:52 +0000

From personal experience, SW that was developed with agent does not hit the road because:

a) learning and adapting is at first more effort, not less, b) learning with experiments is faster, c) experiencing the acceleration first hand is demoralising, d) distribution/marketing is on an accelerated declining efficiency trajectory (if you want to keep it human-generated) e) maintenance effort is not decelerating as fast as creation effort

Yet, I believe your statement is wrong, in the first place. A lot of new code is created with AI assistance, already and part of the acceleration in AI itself can be attributed to increased use of ai in software engineering (from research to planning to execution).

New comment by mitjam in "A DuckDB-based metabase alternative"

mitjam — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:29:20 +0000

1999-2000, the company I worked with gave a smallish number of key users full read rights to the SAP minus HR, briefly after introducing SAP to the global supply chain of that company. The key users came from all orgs using SAP, basically every department had one or two key users.

I was part of this and "saw the light". We had such a great visibility into all the processes, it was unreal. It tremendously sped-up cross-org initiatives.

Today, I guess, only agents get that privilege.

New comment by mitjam in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

mitjam — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:08:32 +0000

Thereafter: Design a bike that an actual pelican can learn to ride in real life.

New comment by mitjam in "My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder"

mitjam — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:10:15 +0000

There is a word play in German: „Selbstständig bedeutet selbst und ständig.“ - Self-employed means yourself, continuously.

Hardware for local coding models is still affordable. For how long?

mitjam — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:59:29 +0000

Article URL: https://mitjamartini.com/posts/2026/01/hardware-for-local-coding-models-still-affordable/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662040

Points: 2

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New comment by mitjam in "The five orders of ignorance (2000)"

mitjam — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:22:00 +0000

Coding agents let me build and throw away prototypes extremely fast. A major value, for me, is that they help me understand early what users truly want and need — rather than relying on assumptions or lingering in abstraction. They help me discover and reduce my ignorance.

New comment by mitjam in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

mitjam — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:16:46 +0000

I have researched a bit more and think your recommendations are spot on. The 256 GB M3 Ultra is probably the best value right now even though it's 2k EUR more expensive than the 96 GB version.

New comment by mitjam in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

mitjam — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:17:02 +0000

Building AI agents for a living is what I hope to become able to do, too, I consider myself still in learning phase. I have talked with some potential customers (small orgs, freelancers) and learned that local inference would unlock opportunities that have otherwise hard to tackle compliance barriers.

New comment by mitjam in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

mitjam — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:01:35 +0000

That‘s exactly my fear.

New comment by mitjam in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

mitjam — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:59:25 +0000

This is certainly the best approach.

New comment by mitjam in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

mitjam — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:32:09 +0000

yes, I'm using smaller models on a Mac M2 Ultra 32GB and they work well, but larger models and coding use might be not a good fit for the architecture, after all.

New comment by mitjam in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

mitjam — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:18:44 +0000

Yes, I also considered the RTX 6000 Pro Max-Q, but it’s quite expensive and probably only makes sense if I can use it for other workloads as well. Interestingly, its price hasn’t gone up since last summer, here in Germany.

New comment by mitjam in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

mitjam — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:14:15 +0000

Yes, I already run Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi at home, but I had to disable it due to complaints.

New comment by mitjam in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

mitjam — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:11:05 +0000

True — I think local inference is still far more expensive for my use case due to batching effects and my relatively sporadic, hourly usage. That said, I also didn’t expect hardware prices (RTX 5090, RAM) to rise this quickly.

New comment by mitjam in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

mitjam — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:06:12 +0000

Thanks, that helps me keep things in perspective.

New comment by mitjam in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

mitjam — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:44:48 +0000

As a heavy user of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI APIs, I’m increasingly tempted to buy a Mac Studio (M3 Ultra or M4 Pro) as a contingency in case the economics of hosted inference change significantly.