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Schlagbohreron Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

"But a human cannot point to a piece of the outer world and say, "See that stuff right there? That stuff is Failure."

Counterpoint, I would point at the mouth of a shark or a slippery cliff and say, "That is failure"

Schlagbohreron What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/what-would-you-do-if-yo...

Schlagbohreron Apple and a hacker's future

And a completely insomniac time to be in defense.

Schlagbohreron Apple and a hacker's future

What is your point with this, are you saying it isn't a problem? It sounds like it ruined your life almost!

Schlagbohreron Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

I would love to have that To Do list interface in Pi. Pi is great and my daily driver but it only has such nice pop-up TUI for the sub-agent management. I use it on a monitor which is tipped 90°, so I have a lot of room for TUI stuff, and a live To Do list would be awesome to glance at.

Edit: I am referring to the To Do list shown in the TUI in this screenshot from the repo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Niko1221/Strata/refs/heads...

Schlagbohreron September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

Very AI written

Schlagbohreron MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

Every model I just tried in here gave me very nonsensical hallucinations, or immediately fell into a loop. Not the best examples of what Petite GPTs (as one is called) can do, I hope.

Schlagbohreron The darker side of being a doctor

Our societies should have expanded their healthcare capacity afterwards and maintained it to a high standard, but unfortunately it sounds like the political classes continue to treat healthcare as a cost centre that they can starve or pull money from for other projects.

Schlagbohreron The darker side of being a doctor

Hands you a copy of Volume 1 of Karl Marx's "Capital"

If only someone had written an explanation of this effect 170 years ago...

Schlagbohreron The darker side of being a doctor

Yes anyone who thinks engineers (HW or SW) are all paid amazingly needs to start taking in the wages of contractors too when calculating averages. Even many engineers working at FAANG HQs are lowly paid, abused contractors, making $50k-$80k.

I know personally of one big famous tech firm that has QA devs making literal minimum wage, because they are contracted from an outsourced firm. But 100% of those people's work is directed by and exclusively for the big tech firm so like all contracting it is an obvious paperwork scam to just mistreat their workers.

Schlagbohreron The darker side of being a doctor

I still cannot understand why a profession like medical doctor does not have better working conditions + a guild or union to enforce that, like actuaries have. Doctor is a profession that few can do, few want to do, it's very hard, many barriers to entry etc. so all that would seem like it should result in doctors getting great pay and benefits like good working hours, even moreso because no one wants a surgeon who is severely sleep deprived and possibly suicidally depressed!

I just don't get it. Do doctors collectively do something wrong here that allows hospital admins to mistreat them so much, including the mistreatment of interns/residents during med school? And this is international too, I have heard these awful working conditions from doctors in Australia, USA, and the Netherlands. In the Netherlands example the resident intern I spoke to was even in a Dutch union but apparently the union was pretty worthless because he got paid extremely little and had the same 20-30 hour shifts that doctors in the USA have.

Schlagbohreron What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers

The overwhelming, #1 issue should be the fossil fuel use. So maybe I can understand them promoting the water issue as a limited hangout (a sacrificial topic to act as a lightning rod to hide the other topic)

Schlagbohreron Undetectable Conversations Between AI Agents via Noise-Resilient Key Exchange

This sounds totally wild, but I would need Bruce Schneier to explain it to me in layman's terms.

Schlagbohreron Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware

I wish STEM folks had some pride in their writing the way that Humanities folks do / are supposed to

Schlagbohreron Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models

I hope you are still taking your maximum possible* number of sick days regardless.

*if you live in a real country, which gives all workers unlimited paid sick leave, I am defining "max possible" here as "as many as you can reasonably take without your boss doing something about it"

Schlagbohreron Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM

I wish I could understand what a single graph in that nice graphic of graphs meant. No explanation for any vertical or horizontal axis. Looks pretty though.

Schlagbohreron Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

We are indeed in an era of riches (thanks to the $1 Trillion a year being spent on this tech) that it is improving so fast I can just sit back with my 3 year old hardware and newer, better, more amazing workflows keep becoming possible for me just due to model compression / optimization + workflow developments. If I can't get something working this season, I just wait until 3 months from now and there will be an easier to set up, less resource demanding, better working version I can have my local AI install for me. Pretty wild times.

Schlagbohreron Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

Are these forks? Different orgs doing the same thing as the OP?

Schlagbohreron Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

The git repo linked at top has some good examples for email classification for automatic email forwarding to specific departments, along with judging email tone and severity / priority, like for customer service emails.

Edit: The Flipper One is planning to have an LLM acceleration co-processor, and be able to host up to a 4GB VRAM size LLM. One use case they envision in their planning is using the microphone along with text to speech to be able to say, "Create an .ini file for this system with these specs" and the small LLM can do that on-device (its a handheld device) and then the user can use/send/upload that file.

Second Edit: I would love a mini LLM in KiCad or Altium that could take a component datasheet and produce a good footprint and schematic symbol for it.

Schlagbohreron How GLM built its own inference infrastructure

Yes exactly, I am hoping that when the AMD Ryzen Halo gets wider release and more consumers have these 128GB devices, the market will justify a wider range of quantized model sizes. And then when I win the lottery and can buy one I'll have lots of nice options!

Schlagbohreron Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

I hold out hope that a multipolar world will be more peaceful and stable, with no one national ruling class able to dominate other nations so easily, and developing countries having more options for whom to ally with to their own benefit.

Schlagbohreron Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

Wow... I want an episode of "Well There's Your Problem" to cover this now.

Reminiscent of the Therac-25 scandal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Schlagbohreron Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM)

I feel weird that I like your typos, because clearly AI did not write your post. Typos have become downright charming and nostalgic for me.

Schlagbohreron Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM)

Absolute treasure of a website with these graphs, thank you for sharing this. Huge help for me to find a faster model (smaller quantization) for my VRAM.

Schlagbohreron CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

Many people who go enjoy the opportunity to get away from family

Schlagbohreron CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

They don't see security cameras because there are very, very few in Germany and the few that exist are in train stations, or private areas like INSIDE a business, or INSIDE a private estate, pointing inwards since they're seldom allowed to film outwards

Schlagbohreron This PCB is brought to you by Fable 5

Me too, LLMs are bad at generating 3D models still but that and EE/ME CAD are the next frontiers.

Schlagbohreron How GLM built its own inference infrastructure

That table assumes cache hit rate of 95% or better. Am I understanding this correctly that people really are doing such repetitive prompts (compared to each other, across the concurrent user base at that time) that only 5% or less need actually be computed by the intended LLM?

That is shocking. Is it per-token I wonder?

Schlagbohreron How GLM built its own inference infrastructure

I am surprised at the lack of open-weights models in the >35B, but <200B range. I keep thinking about devices like the NVIDIA Spark and AMD Ryzen Halo, which have their 128GB of combined memory, but there are so few models made for that range. Nearly all the open weights distillations are for larger customer bases with <24GB VRAM.

Schlagbohreron 'Offensively cheap': solar power is looking up

The frontier AI companies have occaisionally been using their latest and greatest (and most power hungry) models to research large efficiency gains for their older, lesser models.