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dempseye

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CTO at Kolega (kolega.ai). github.com/evandempsey
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dempseye··on Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
I truly hope we get a Qwen 3.8 35B-A3B

The model ID appeared in some alibaba PR but later disappeared.

It's the optimal blend of accessibility and model size for a lot of people.

dempseye··on Show HN: Gigacode – the model writes its own multi-agent workflow, then runs it
Hi HN,

I'm the CTO of Kolega and the main author of this. Kolega Code is an open source terminal coding agent. What I want to show today is Gigacode, its orchestration engine. The model writes its own multi-agent workflow as a python program and the harness executes it.

When Claude Code shipped dynamic workflows under the ultracode name a few months ago I thought it was the most interesting thing that happened to coding agents for a while, but it's closed source. This is the same idea, except you can read the code. The model receives your request, maybe investigates a bit, then emits a program written against a small runtime API with paralle phases, pipelines, judge panels, etc.

There's an unedited workflow example the model authored in the repo: https://github.com/kolega-ai/kolega-code/blob/main/examples/...

Architecture doc, including what's guaranteed by the runtime, the journaling and resume behaviour, and what workflow shapes the models actually chose in practice, drawn from a few hundred of our internal runs: https://github.com/kolega-ai/kolega-code/blob/main/how-gigac...

Main thing that needs improvement: the workflow current runs in the foreground and blocks the chat thread until it finishes. Backgrounding it is the next piece of work.

What tasks are you working on with one serial agent that a parallel workflow or a swarm might do better? Interested to see what people might apply this to.

dempseye··on Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins
The erosion of trust is actually a good thing, because those institutions are undeserving of trust.
dempseye··on Elon Musk sells $6.9B worth of Tesla stock
Why would you expect he had things to say outside his area of expertise?
dempseye··on Study: Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease
To get the flu vaccine.
dempseye··on Study: Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease
Maybe the ones who developed Alzheimers forgot.
dempseye··on UK inflation hits 9.1% as prices rise at fastest rate for 40 years
They supported radical state interventions against covid that affected the economy and forced central banks to run the money printer. Lockdowns, etc.
dempseye··on State is hard: why SPAs will persist
That's like saying bad trapeze artists are not a valid argument for safety nets.
dempseye··on Show HN: Razer x Lambda Tensorbook
I for one do not believe the battery life claims.
dempseye··on How Western governments are getting military gear into Ukraine
If that is the standard by which the population of a country can be judged to be barbarians, then the category of barbarians is a wide one indeed.
dempseye··on How Western governments are getting military gear into Ukraine
I see nothing in his comment to justify such a charitable interpretation.
dempseye··on How Western governments are getting military gear into Ukraine
> Unfortunately the Russians never got that memo and remained barbarian.

I don't believe referring to any group of people as barbarians is an appropriate comment for HN, or indeed for any place purporting to be a forum for civilized discourse.

dempseye··on Left Alive And Unchanged: The Heaven’s Gate Website
Yes, it's an old SEO hack. It's called "keyword stuffing".
dempseye··on Tesla Model S Goes 752 Miles with a Startup's Prototype Battery
I would have to charge it every 3 weeks.
dempseye··on Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
dempseye··on Dangerous humid heat extremes occurring decades before expected (2020)
Regulations on corporations are ultimately backed up by threats of violence too.
dempseye··on Ask HN: How do you have fun without alcohol?
Have sex
dempseye··on Loving Someone with Depression
Good luck to you.
dempseye··on Loving Someone with Depression
Whatever your faults, and I'm sure you have some, gaslighting is abuse and you shouldn't put up with it.

If you don't have kids, you should leave her. People's characters don't usually change or improve.

dempseye··on Loving Someone with Depression
The whole "I need to do better because I have ADHD" thing sounds like a narrative she uses to gaslight you into being her slave.

All the focus in your post is on your duties, not on hers.

I obviously don't know your relationship from the inside, but I experienced similar and it was relief to get away from it.

dempseye··on Marketing is scary for a solo developer
He wasn't though.
dempseye··on Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]
I live in a country with a vaccination rate over 90% and we still have partial lockdowns.

So I suggest you reassess whether meeting that goal in your location would result in things going back to normal for you.

dempseye··on Marketing is scary for a solo developer
Can you drop the link to it? I'm not sure if you mean the bootcamp.
dempseye··on Right-clickers vs. the monkey JPG owners
Looks rare
dempseye··on Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?
> I can't do the whole interview and switch thing while employed

Why not?

dempseye··on The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless
The problem with this view is that the alternative to serverless is not spending money on bare metal servers, but renting actual or virtual servers on a month to month basis.
dempseye··on Austria to declare nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people
This is an endemic disease of humans and will never be eradicated.
dempseye··on A New Search Engine That Doesn’t Rank Sites Based on Their Authority
It's terrible.
dempseye··on Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands
> Retail stores actually buy everything they sell

This is true in general, but not absolutely true.

In some cases, manufacturers rent shelf space from stores, then pay the store a commission for each unit sold.

Various power tool manufacturers use this model, the name of which eludes me at this moment. I think Moleskine also does it.

dempseye··on Don't give up on having kids because of climate change
What government is that?
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