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New comment by rescbr in "Our position on open-weights models"

rescbr — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:24 +0000

Still, somebody heavily funded this thing for too long, and I very much doubt that we don't have the surveillance apparatus in place today for these things to get unchecked.

Stuff is known but not acted upon for various reasons.

New comment by rescbr in "Our position on open-weights models"

rescbr — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:35:04 +0000

That's why you don't run the model at low quantization

New comment by rescbr in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

rescbr — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:15:55 +0000

I also make nerdy jokes/puns, and I had similar experiences with beneficial model steering that such puns create.

It's interesting how more loose/informal prompting achieves good results, there is some cultural understanding in the models from training. Once I asked the clanker to remove the gambiarras and puxadinhos that it wrote as part of an experiment, and it promptly fixed those.

New comment by rescbr in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

rescbr — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:54:52 +0000

They claimed the model was PhD-level, but they never mentioned the university the model graduated from... :)

New comment by rescbr in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

rescbr — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:32:54 +0000

I currently have a free trial AI Pro subscription that will run out next month.

If it weren't for the $10 GCP credit, I'd straight away cancel it. I don't see enough value in Gemini to justify the $20 subscription.

New comment by rescbr in "The state of open source AI"

rescbr — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:20:49 +0000

Where are you sourcing the API from?

I have zero quality issues on Z.ai Coding Plan and maki.sh as the coding agent, but I've seen many reports on 3rd party providers that they host heavily quantized versions of GLM models.

New comment by rescbr in "The state of open source AI"

rescbr — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:15:30 +0000

I imagine they're not spying for fun...

New comment by rescbr in "The state of open source AI"

rescbr — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:43:54 +0000

I feel the same. I feel Anthropics' raw models are excellent, but Claude Code's bloat make them lose some potential.

This and I very much miss reading the chain of thought. At least I have it on GLM-5.2.

New comment by rescbr in "The state of open source AI"

rescbr — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:27:16 +0000

Happy to disagree with you. There are many examples of the US using the state espionage machinery for private purposes. The extent of "private" is debatable given the US as a nation behaves more like a big corp.

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/nsa-spying-on-petro...

New comment by rescbr in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

rescbr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:42:02 +0000

You can trade-off cable shielding for electronics power and corresponding heat to encode/decode stuff.

Ethernet is notoriously power hungry, but I bet you can use a phone cable and still get tens of Gb over a very short range.

New comment by rescbr in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

rescbr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:19:39 +0000

And then there are the crappy devices that aren't compliant with USB PD and only charge with a USB-C to USB-A cable.

New comment by rescbr in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

rescbr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:00:52 +0000

For me it depends, if I simply take the answer from the LLM it goes straight into the shortest memory neurons my brain has.

Now, if I go back and forth with the LLM to say, taking the language learning example, to explore the etymology of the word (which for me is far more interesting than the translation itself), then I learn a ton more.

New comment by rescbr in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

rescbr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:43:51 +0000

I had a professor who polled the class if we preferred our exams to be open book or not. First year of undergrad.

The midterm was open book, he even shared the previous year's exams. The final, as expected, closed book, thank you very much.

New comment by rescbr in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

rescbr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:59:35 +0000

Exactly! It got so easy nowadays to use AI to setup scenarios since the busy work of writing code/test harnesses and setting things up for the benchmark is done by the machine. Then throw away what does not work.

Some benchmark that would take weeks to plan, code and set up is now hours and days - the time is now spent on the benchmark itself, not on temporary code.

New comment by rescbr in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

rescbr — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:25:20 +0000

For me, them allowing API usage on coding plans so we can use any harness, and returning the full unabridged reasoning back are how they earned my trust.

New comment by rescbr in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

rescbr — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:08:28 +0000

Weird. I have seen it asking the harness to do `find ~ -type f | grep` to try and find my agent configuration .json file when I asked it to add a MCP server. Stupid, but they weren't sending the files back home. This was with older models though. Newer ones are a bit smarter than that.

New comment by rescbr in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

rescbr — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:59:35 +0000

Now, where are the people afraid of the Chinese AI companies, who claim they are going to copy their very precious code...?

New comment by rescbr in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

rescbr — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:46:33 +0000

How so?

New comment by rescbr in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

rescbr — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:05:25 +0000

I assume they can spy on anything, that's why I refuse to do any kind of BYOD that requires MDM enrollment. It's also one IT mistake away from wiping out my personal data from my own property.

Company's Outlook, Teams, MS Authenticator and Slack on my personal phone? Ehhhh fine.

The second IT requires a profile it's the second I'm uninstalling anything company related from my phone. They can give me a company phone, or I will only access work related things from their laptop.

Happened twice to me, one time I got a company phone, the other, computer only.

And then some colleagues even paid out-of-pocket to upgrade their Android phones once IT dictated their OS were out of support. No way.

New comment by rescbr in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

rescbr — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:58:10 +0000

My first phone that had a (rear) camera 20 years ago also had a chrome-plated mirror thing to help us take selfies. I guess nobody called them selfies then.

I guess point and shoot cameras also had those mirrors back then.

Glad to know that kids rediscovered camera selfies.