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New comment by mixermachine in "Pi 1.0"

mixermachine — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:58:59 +0000

Yer, that is my bad for not updating myself, sorry. I did miss the introduction of Alt + Tab or /thinking command for switching this.

Good thing I can remove another package.

New comment by mixermachine in "Pi 1.0"

mixermachine — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:52:28 +0000

No I did not ask AI for this. This is the understanding I have from working with PI for a year.

They also say so on their website ( https://pi.dev/ ): "Pi ships with powerful defaults but skips features like sub-agents and plan mode. Ask Pi to build what you want, or install a package that does it your way."

I fully agree on the quality of the packages. Can vary quite a bit. I stick to very popular ones.

New comment by mixermachine in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

mixermachine — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:07:02 +0000

Leaving this here: https://youtube.com/shorts/83X79cfuE3k

(yes, AI critique is now also made with AI. We have come full circle.)

New comment by mixermachine in "Pi 1.0"

mixermachine — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:09:39 +0000

Copied from myself above:

That goes against the philosophy of pi. Nearly Everything is a Plugin. Need to set the reasoning effort? Install pi-reasoning. Need subagents? Install pi-subagents. Need permission gating? Install one of the permission extensions (otherwise the agent can do everything).

A feature like cache warming on Anthrophic feels very strange in this environment. NOT saying that it is not useful. It just should be a plugin.

New comment by mixermachine in "Pi 1.0"

mixermachine — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:07:27 +0000

Pi with Caveman Plugin :D

New comment by mixermachine in "Pi 1.0"

mixermachine — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:06:35 +0000

That goes against the philosophy of pi. Nearly Everything is a Plugin. Need to set the reasoning effort? Install pi-reasoning. Need subagents? Install pi-subagents. Need permission gating? Install one of the permission extensions (otherwise the agent can do everything).

A feature like cache warming on Anthrophic feels very strange in this environment. NOT saying that it is not useful. It just should be a plugin.

New comment by mixermachine in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

mixermachine — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:40:29 +0000

I wouldn't touch fields or canals. The US has incredible amounts of parking lots. They are also mostly built in very developed parts of the land with a lot of users for electric power in close proximity. And a parking lot is already "sealed ground". Might be less problematic to get a permit there?

Additional plus: cars don't heat up in the sun. And at some point you might even charge EVs there.

New comment by mixermachine in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

mixermachine — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:59:49 +0000

After reading through the threat here it seems more like a cultural thing. The US has quite a lot of filters for profanity. I remember from my youth that in 2009 Eminem was a guest in a Germany TV show and very happy to swear as much as possible without being censored. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2OC-yKZ5Yag

New comment by mixermachine in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

mixermachine — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:54:32 +0000

Am I, with around 30, in this generation? Putting * in words seems like self censorship to me. Still, might have a cultural component. German here.

New comment by mixermachine in "Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs"

mixermachine — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:24:25 +0000

I also no longer trust benchmarks on this one. When the context gets a bit longer and the problem harder low quant models often produce worse output for me. Sometimes they even loop.

Interestingly different formats also often behave differently. GGUF unsloth is so far the best for me.

New comment by mixermachine in "Let's make quality the norm again"

mixermachine — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:35:47 +0000

Project Farm on YouTube has never disappointed me. The guy buys everything himself and finds creative & reproducible ways to test things.

New comment by mixermachine in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

mixermachine — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:33:23 +0000

The engram stuff is great because RAM is often still cheaper (or at least expandable). My company does currently look into buying some hardware as we handle confidential data and code.

Qwen 3.8 Flash is viable on two Nvidia 6000 96GB with a wood quant because you can put the 50GB Engram into RAM and the hit should be below 10% performance. At least that is what I have seen so far. Correct me if I'm wrong.

New comment by mixermachine in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

mixermachine — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:02:24 +0000

I need to support integrators for a mobile app SDK. Bank stuff.

We have one integrator which consistently uses a truly bad AI. My brain skips after two sentences already. There are always +9 questions what should just be 2 max. Redundant info is requested (e.g. please provide a change history of this function and if it will be deprecated) and everything is just unbelievably verbose.

90% of questions we get from them are already answered by the web documentation (which even has a search function) or are just non sense.

I'm truly considering to build an MCP just for them...

New comment by mixermachine in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

mixermachine — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:21:23 +0000

Did you already test TranslateGemma? I use this model for my Android Studio Translation Plugin (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/30265-localizepipe) and so far it produces great results for its size.

If there are other models (of similar size) out there, that are better at this, please let me know.

New comment by mixermachine in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

mixermachine — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:08:39 +0000

Scaling a model on a chip is quite hard. ChatJimmy is based on Llama 3.1 8 billion. Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters. That are 350x more parameters.

I would expect that Gemma 4 E2B (approx 5.1 billion parameters) or maybe even Gemma 4 26 billion A4B at some point is running on a chip.

New comment by mixermachine in "Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't"

mixermachine — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:01:54 +0000

Channels like project farm https://youtube.com/@projectfarm or other reviewers that are not sponsored are truly my main source of information in this age.

Some direct reviews between 2 and 4 stars are also sometimes useful. Always discard the 5 star ones...

New comment by mixermachine in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

mixermachine — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:46:18 +0000

If there are no changes to the system message, yes this is possible and also likely done by Anthropic. When there are additional local MCPs, reusability will be lower.

I think that Anthropic will bill you in any case :D

New comment by mixermachine in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

mixermachine — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:52:51 +0000

right, but the cache retention time is very short for Anthropics LLMs. 5 minutes or 1 hour (with additional costs). So you have to prompt basically non stop to not get a cache eviction.

Anthropic even changed this silently: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1sk3m12/followup_...

New comment by mixermachine in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

mixermachine — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:42:50 +0000

The OpenCode CLI does not work as well for me as the PI CLI. I'm a subscriber of OpenCode Go (the sub, good value for me really) but I had not great experiences with OpenCode CLI. It multiple times with different models deadlocked itself into listing endlessly to non ending processes (Android Debugging Bridge, COM serial log, ...). There was also a problem where the OpenCode CLI would crash after sometime with a Bun error.

I switched to the PI CLI and have no problems with hanging processes anymore. OpenCode Go allows for API access so I'm keeping this sub.

New comment by mixermachine in "A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly"

mixermachine — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:19:22 +0000

Works on Brave (Chromium) with Android 16