So is that a yes? AI slop?

This is amazing

This is what I was gonna mention. Even with a 24gb 4090 I have no context room. I run it 8-bit quant on a DGX Spark for that. It’s only 13 tps but 256k context.

I’m native English speaking and it sounded fine. I didn’t recognize any “style” that would be stereotypical of anything. It read like an engineering blog post.

As a long time financial supporter, thank you! Is this your full time gig yet?

they don’t have ai…

I hear ya. I’m 50 years old. Super safe driver, also never been in an accident. It’s wild that you had such a bad experience, but I believe you.

What year Tesla? Sounds like my 2023 (HW3). The follow closely thing seems to have gotten better in the last couple updates tho.

64GB unified memory. I run it (and a lot more) on a dgx spark, but a Mac mini would suffice also.

You could prob run 4-bit version on a RTX card with 32g. Maybe even 24g. Like a 5090 or 4090 or such.

So much info out there.

I run Qwen 3.6 27B at home. For “free”. It is extremely useful.

My point being that I’m not going to be priced out of using it

Docker does by default - it only works if you use sudo. But the docs tell you to add yourself to the docker group (which requires sudo to do). Then running docker doesn’t require sudo anymore.

That seems similar to my path. Covid put me on the remote worker world, so we packed up and hit the road. Moved to a remote small town near vast nature. Bought a nice house on the river.

I’m also self employed and doing normal near retirement things. Currently on a 3-6 month contract for an ex employer in the financial space doing AI security stuff.

Then I’ll take the winter off and snowboard every day.

I’m 50 and in the process of retiring. It’s such a fitting exit. I’ll ride the slop wagon into the sunset.

Qwen 3.6 27B dense is really good. Very usable coding output

Yeah I’m familiar with some places protecting that word.

I find all the workforce productivity related academic papers in the space right now to be sensationalist and subjective. We just haven’t had enough time to let the dust fall.

Totally understand what you’re struggling with. Ppl still need to care about and understand what they’re writing and make sure things are done properly. You don’t oneshot everything.

Also, it depends on what types of systems you’re working on. Integration and glue code in backend systems is where I live most of the time. Using ai removes a lot of tedious boilerplate.

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Yes, that must be wonderful to live in academic world and to throw around papers and shit but down here on the ground a lot of us actually get shit done and we aren’t the delusional ones that are pretending like somethings making us faster because we don’t have the money to waste if it’s not actually making us faster.

Are you an engineer? I’m trying to get a feel for what type of people don’t think that LLMs are useful for software engine

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Yeah absolutely agree. In another thread I pointed out the difference between a pro using it and a novice using it.

Currently the loudest people seem to be the novices using it, even journalists? Maybe it’s just hatred and determination of people to make it sound bad to fulfill their fantasy of it sucking. Theres definitely an echo chamber effect going around also, a hivemind of “ai sucks”.

Anyhow, I like to add my experience with AI to discussions to counter all the negativity.

I’m a self employed old-timer engineer. I love the magic pattern machine box. Wish I had this back in the y2k bug fixing days.

I pay for it myself, as a business owner.

I pay for it because it solves real problems I have, and improves my quality of life.