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c0rruptbyteson What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

seems more like a culture problem, i have my calendar very public, all my junior devs know ill get on a zoom with no hesitation and they actually seem to enjoy the screen sharing, every zoom is recorded with AI summary/transcript so they’re more focused on asking questions instead of taking notes (and i think they’re really solid juniors and actually go back and watch)

there’s the whiteboard element but i’ve gotten pretty good at exalidraw and zoom annotating

add in the remote makes it kinda easy to not be distracting in meetings so i can easily DM them context on the side to get them ramped up easier

c0rruptbyteson What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

we hired a few juniors at our fully remote company - no issue

this is ft trying to help their real estate portfolio

c0rruptbyteson 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

fair, i think i was referring more to 1.58 bit architecture in general since the original paper (Figure 3) shows that we eliminate FP16 multiplication and addition just for INT8 addition. I need to dive deeper into bonsai overall if it differs

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17764

c0rruptbyteson Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace

AI doesn’t have a model or agent availability problem to be fair, it does have a positive outreach problem and pewdiepie can do extremely well there

just my 2c

c0rruptbyteson 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

ideally if ternary models work, the math is extremely easy for computers (addition/subtraction vs 16 bit multiplication)

c0rruptbyteson Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog

> If Rust is the new C++, Zig is the new C.

thank you, this helps!

c0rruptbyteson Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

I run Deepseek at home...only people getting money is my electricity company

c0rruptbyteson Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog

i'm not cool and hip like hacker news devs, but I've been seeing Zig a lot, is this the new cool thing on the street? no more Rust?

c0rruptbyteson Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

I mean, Deepseek is open model, it can be rehosted in the US by anyone, there’s no royalty to china

c0rruptbyteson MCP is dead?

is this post old? MCP context poisoning was fixed like months ago

i personally was anti-MCP but they just work better in terms of tool search than a CLI, especially with the idea of tool nudging

c0rruptbyteson The dead economy theory

https://github.com/OpenCoworkAI/open-cowork

https://www.eigent.ai/

c0rruptbyteson The dead economy theory

this is also possible with local models, MCP is an open standard

if you already have claude, you can even get it to set it all up for you too

the issue with local models is just the compute required, it's hard to compete with 100t/s cloud models

c0rruptbyteson Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

yes but Sequoia invested like 200m, we're talking like Google investing 30b...very different scales and bureaucracies

c0rruptbyteson Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

i would assume investors giving billions of dollars have done their due diligence and not base it off vibes...

c0rruptbyteson Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

I love ds4, us models are better imo, but like 5% not 500% better, so the valuation doesn't really make sense

that being said, deepseek v4 needs to be on amazon bedrock to actually be feasible in the US Enterprise market and start driving other provider prices down

c0rruptbyteson Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks

been testing forge with ternary bonsai 8b mlx 2bit, pretty sweet even if the model is limited - real potential with this project, good luck!!

  - Broad slice:
      - Full Forge: 48/72 accurate, 72/72 complete, score 66.7%
      - Bare: 18/72 accurate, 24/72 complete, score 25.0%
      - Lift: +30 correct runs, no paired regressions
      - Bare had 42 ToolCallErrors and 6 ToolExecutionErrors; full Forge had none.
  - Advanced reasoning:
      - Full Forge: 3/24 accurate, 24/24 complete, score 12.5%
      - Bare: 3/24 accurate, 9/24 complete, score 12.5%
      - Lift: completion improved, but accuracy did not.

c0rruptbyteson Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage

Why use this over Twilio which works pretty hard to make sure you’re compliant (and supports iMessage for business)?

c0rruptbyteson The Eternal Sloptember

sounds like bad deployment practices - canaries, guardrails, fast rollbacks, ring based promotions, cell based architecture, blah blah etc... humans write bad code too, there should be systems in place to protect it from releasing

c0rruptbyteson The Eternal Sloptember

ai agents can program, in fact, in our current time with current models, i'd say they program better than most people in the industry (an industry where people were literally copying and pasting from stack overflow for years prior)

being able to program is not the only skill required to be a successful software engineer, so no ai agents cannot be software engineers

very important distinction - i personally like the radiologist example - looking at scans is a part of a radiologist job, AI can do it better than most of them, but looking at scans is a small part of the job, most of it communicating with doctors to help their patients

c0rruptbyteson Is AI Profitable Yet?

Deepseek is really killing it if that's their total spend

c0rruptbyteson DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

I personally really like DS4 Flash - it's the largest I can run locally with decent speeds and I feel like it's good enough to maintain a codebase with less effort

c0rruptbyteson Googlebook

Do you have a source for this local stuff?

i can kinda see it, they spent a lot of time getting Gemma 4 pretty efficient and then seeing everyone buy macs to run them and realize it’s maybe a real moat since Apple doesn’t make any AI

Would be an interesting product if it could actually give you GPT performance locally, will be an awful experience if it’s essentially just cloud AI…like a premium laptop where most of the features are locked behind a subscription would be wild

c0rruptbyteson Googlebook

hackernews will tell you the public hates AI and then OpenAI will report like a billion active users

c0rruptbyteson Agent Skills

i treat it like Minecraft automation - it's just for funsies and to pass the time haha

I don't think agentic workflows are there yet, but implementing skills to manually call and use while working side by side with an AI is definitely nice - our company is focused a lot on sandboxing right now and having safe skills

I don't think we've gotten feature development well yet, but the review skills + grafana skills they wrote have been pretty solid

c0rruptbyteson Zig → Rust porting guide

i mean AI docs are usually the result of collabs between users and AI using /plan

with superpowers, i see a lot of specs -> impl plan -> execute plan

c0rruptbyteson AI uses less water than the public thinks

i believe it was like amount of water gold uses in the USA alone is 10x more than water used by AI globally

c0rruptbyteson Show HN: Rapid-MLX – Run local LLMs on Mac, 2-3x faster than alternatives

i use this, big fan - i have unlimited codex tokens if you ever need some dev assistance

Would definitely love benchmarks against omlx and fast-mlx one day (i also have a 256gb m3 ultra)

c0rruptbyteson I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

i understand the intent, but selena is still extremely popular, especially amongst women...maybe a bad example

c0rruptbyteson I am building a cloud

it's always a skill issue when it comes to people complaining with k8s

knowing when and when not to use k8s, is also a skill

c0rruptbyteson GPT-5.5

literally cannot launch the codex app anymore