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Is Grok relevant? Who uses it?

Maybe I'm in some kind of bouble but I have never met or talked to anyone who has used Grok.

yes, but it uses 17gb VRAM when running a 50 inference steps generation from prompt. Which is more than I expected since a 7B model sounds little.

I use opencode + <a decent saas llm> to set up all this new ai generation stuff. GLM-5.3 is my current gun. Safely inside podman containers too because I dont trust this fast moving python eco system at all. Never do I want this running on my main OS.

I have FLUX.2 klein and dev, Ideogram, LaDA-Image and SenseNova locally. Works great. Ive never touched a file.

The days of making container yamls myself is over. I read them but I dont edit anymore.

I would call this a license trap: Qwen RESEARCH LICENSE AGREEMENT

Code on github, models on huggingface, nice intro text: "We are excited to open-source Qwen-Image-2.1 [...]".

meh...

So one model is "Not used to improve our products" and is 10-20 times more expensive to the "Used to improve our products"-model.

Given this is Meta, my immediate assumptions that one is cheap because it lets me "be the product". I know I'm rushing to conclusions but there is zero trust here. The brain will do its thing. And the wording here is giving the brains a lot of wiggle room.

OpenCode+GLM-5.3 (and 5.2) for three weeks solid. Im so happy I made it out

We don't trust you Zuck but we'll take it. Thanks.

no ACP support it seems :( Of all the AI buzzwords I love ACP because of the separation of concern. Let the editor be an editor, the harness be the ai code agent, and the llm be the llm

Less money to US AI tech. This could be good long term to move us away from them.

Remember the good old days of impulse buying the latest Raspberry Pi?

Since Gemma 4 came this easter the gap from self hosting models to Claude has decreased sigificantly I think. The gap is still huge it just that local models were extremely non-competitive before easter. So now it seems Qwen 3.6 is another bump up from Gemma 4 which is exciting if it is so. I keep an Opus close ofcourse, because these local models still wander off in the wrong direction and fails. Something Opus almost never does for me anymore.

But every time a local model gets me by - I feel closer to where I should be; writing code should still be free. Both free as in free beer, and free as in freedom.

My setup is a seperate dedicated Ubuntu machine with RTX 5090. Qwen 3.6:27b uses 29/32gb of vram when its working right this minute. I use Ollama in a non root podman instance. And I use OpenCode as ACP Service for my editor, which I highly recommend. ACP (Agent Client Protocol) is how the world should be in case you were asking, which you didnt :)

Exciting times and thank you Qwen team for making the world a better place in a world of Sam Altmans.

The simulation says you're welcome. Haha, just kidding. This is not a simulation obviously.

TIL: Germany (85m) has almost the same population as Iran (90m)

Geopolitics is a reason. Many individuals and companies are scrambling for safe alternatives to US tech. I live in Norway and there is a lot of this going on.

Sir, your logic is flawed. You can buy Adidas in the US too. Adidas is still 0% american.

I would disagree. Amplified meens me and you get more s** done.

Unless there a limited amount of software we need to produce per year globally to keep everyone happy, then nobody wants more -- and we happen to be at that point right NOW this second.

I think not. We can make more (in less time) and people will get more. This is the mental "glass half full" approach I think. Why not take this mental route instead? We don't know the future anyway.

I like this. This is an accurate state of AI at this very moment for me. The LLM is (just) a tool which is making me "amplified" for coding and certain tasks.

I will worry about developers being completely replaced when I see something resembling it. Enough people worry about that (or say it to amp stock prices) -- and they like to tell everyone about this future too. I just don't see it.

I agree. They makes me nauseous. The same kind of light nausea as car sickness.

I assume our brains are used to stuff which we dont notice conciously, and reject very mild errors. I've stared at the picture a bit now and the finger holding the baloon is weird. The out of place snowman feels weird. If you follow the background blur around it isnt at the same depth everywehere. Everything that reflects, has reflections that I cant see in the scene.

I dont feel good staring at it now so I had to stop.

Me too. I just think he needs to pick his battles right now as Greenland is taking so much space.

I am learning Unreal Engine for a year. im almost half way through and am making a simple Space Invaders clone which I will publish on steam for free.

aye matey

Hear hear. I poked around at almost all the packages on the top of that idemacs page. «minimap» stood out, and is such a brilliant name for its purpose. I enjoyed that discovery and the smirk it gave me today.

This means Arduino is no longer European, but American instead. This is relevant and unfortunate as Trump has made everything American taste bitter.

This is true. They are problematic also. Especially Putin, which I believe we are partially responsible for also. The desire for better governments is not snobbery. Especially from the US and China, because they suck big time right now and they are the most influencial globally.

And I’m guessing that was a rhetorical question

I would argue the UK is just as it looks on the map, outside but too close to belong anywhere else. So back to the analogy, perhaps the butter…?

Meenwhile Europe is sandwiched between these two aweful governments

1.7B should pull Mistral (and Europe) out of the little fish pond if they hadnt left already. I hope they succeed.

Norwegian here. Not a young one. Ive seen my share of the northern lights and Ive also seen a lot of photos of it. The photos are attractive, but they are never like seen by the photographer with the naked eye.

I blame that dark/night photography is an impossible task. The tricks like long exposure, ISO boost and noise cleanup, saturation, hdr or whatever you throw at it, just wont be like your eyes. Photographers gets carried away in post and boost too much, and I understand why.

Northern lights - are awesome. I encourage you to see it if you havent. Go this winter! And take photos and you’ll know what I meen. The colors wont pop like these popular photos, but standing outside on a freezing winter night holding back your frost breath from blocking the view of the green lights moving like firely beams of across the sky. Hopefully you’re somewhere quiet with no light pollution. There is nothing like it - watching the reflections of the armor of the valkyrene as they march on valhal

I would say raspberry pi 5. cheap, small and widely used so much of the stuff is already done many times