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machiaweliczny··on Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
If it's cheaper then I guess it will might get practical. Also more likely that mind uses simpler techniques more similar to these.

I wonder though if someone tested mutating training objective though, like keeping original loss/goal and somehow defining loss differently and then comparing against original. This intuitively feels like how mind tries to handle difficult tasks.

machiaweliczny··on SvelteKit 3
In general I like Svelte and SvelteKit although there's 3 problems I don't fully like:

1) The getter trap - if you forget to export hooks via getters you don't get reactivity and it's not easy to figure out (Svelte)

2) The async data fetching - for example fetching data async is currently coupled to views which it shouldn't be - was frustrating a lot (SvelteKit)

3) That reactivity system is not runtime only (Svelte)

I am also not a fan of adding these new things like remote functions - most of apps need multiple frontends and this coupling isn't needed. This will be fad same as GraphQL

machiaweliczny··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
Agree, with UA stopping Russia western capital will finally flow into Poland because previous strategy was to defend on Vistula river which blocked a lot of heavy industry investments that are starting now.
machiaweliczny··on AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it
> It is horrible until AI gets as good as a perfect project from a prompt or we need to abandon it.

Getting close to it with my recent test of cursor cloud workflow.

I've spent 300M tokens in a day and it achieved what I wanted. Manually would take me a month instead of day so it's not 2x it's 20x faster but project was quite simple rewrite of 20k lines of C++ and there was reference implementation. It also improved on original implementation perf wise.

The problem is with fuzzy ideas for new development and with catching up with comprehension when working on something new - I guess we need better visualization tools for code. Product manager work seems like bottleneck currently and monitoring because coding can move quite fast.

machiaweliczny··on Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
Good news is that HTML in canvas might bring back these cool days :)
machiaweliczny··on Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?
Yes it's still bad there's no viable headless UI in browser one can really style and it has all the a11y etc. but need extra library for selects that work etc. Invented work for no good reason. The real complexity is in diversity of devices though nowadays in the frontend.
machiaweliczny··on The real cost of owning a home
At current rates you are losing when renting (excluding possible appreciation), that's why it's hard to sell and easy to rent. Due to low rates before homes went big in value cause you were earning even not counting appreciation, so whoever had credit was maxing it to full for easy money but now situation starts to stabilise / reverse?
machiaweliczny··on The real cost of owning a home
The thing with home is that it's leveraged investment for normal people. You can pay 10% of value and resell later. Buying home for cash is less optimal but for credit it makes sense usually due to leverage and little downside risk. Plus usually every now and then you get money printing and you 2x your leveraged money or more rarely get hyperinflation and home for free. This was mostly issue of too low interest rates but that's how I see it from the past 10 years (non US resident)
machiaweliczny··on Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
Tested and it's good. Fast version is bad though. I like planning model in Cursor that it works more like human written design doc instead of too detailed AI plan. Seems like this is more responsible for results that model but still on fast it failed but on normal got good results.
machiaweliczny··on Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight
The practical case is less time spend on rebasing/formatting code - IMO formatting standard is very helpful as then it's the same as storing AST. There's also better preserving of git blame and that's likely why they have done it as single operation as otherwise you would have everybody messing with that part and now you know there's single commit that touched everything and if blame is on it then you check previous edit.
machiaweliczny··on Mark Cuban: OpenAI Will Never Return the $1T It's Investing [video]
They would compete with Meta then which already does something like this but has mature AD tech
machiaweliczny··on JavaScript Is Enough
Rookie mistake, you just conflating concepts pretending things don't exist. Good API is one that is minimal, explicit and acomplishes the job without conflating with somethings else. Congrats now I don't know if this variable is designed for rendering of state managements and when I will hit some perf issues will have no idea what causes this, same with some unintended state update or something like this. If you can do everything using same concept it's obviously harder to read as you need to simulate compiler in your head which is bad design.
machiaweliczny··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
I personally go 3x for gym classes like "healthy spine", "mobility", "core" etc. and then 2-3x hard training. But I would say I am very active recently.

Do I feel better? Yes. Was it hard first 2 weeks? Yes, I had even to resort to painkillers.

I think the best for people who sit a lot are core, mobility and back exercises. Huge motivation for me when I finally started prioritizing back on machines and progressed on all other things and finally look like I go to gym :)

machiaweliczny··on GPT-5.4
5.2 and 5.3 are strong/best for coding, 5.0 and 5.1 were garbage
machiaweliczny··on The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
We need that for this chinese 3B model that think 45s for hello world but also solves math.
machiaweliczny··on The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
A lot of NLP tasks could benefit from this
machiaweliczny··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
No it's not because cost is much lower. They do some kind of speculative decoding in monte-carlo way If I had to guess as humans do it this way is my hunch. What I mean it's kinda the way you describe but much more efficient.
machiaweliczny··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
Windows Phone was actually good. I would even say that my Lumia something was one of best experiences ever on mobile. G+ was also good. Efficient markets mean that you can "extract" rent, via selling data or attention etc. not realy what is good
machiaweliczny··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
--help explains this, -s for sandbox and -a for approvals
machiaweliczny··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
For now until they are in the lead
machiaweliczny··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
Claude: you get rate-limited with one prompt so hard to validate 4.6

Codex: better with rate-limits, 5.2 strong with logic problems

Cursor: cursor auto - a bit dumb still but I use the most for writing not really thinking, it's also good at searching through codebase and doing summaries etc.

Claude / Codex still miss tons of scaffolding for sane development or it's due to sandboxes or sth. Like for example you ask in /plan mode to check think with link to github and it does navigate github via curl, hitting rate limits etc. instead of just git clone, repomix etc. so scaffolding still matters a lot. Like it still lacks a tons of common sense

machiaweliczny··on The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs
I think this will work but requires quality data pipelines and scaffolding same as coding
machiaweliczny··on The Great Unwind
Yeah, I think people have had enough this time its not gonna fly
machiaweliczny··on G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
Man this is art
machiaweliczny··on Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
Yeah, that's my current gripe but I think this just needs some good examples in AGENTS.md (I've done some for hooks and it kinda works but need to remind it). I need good AGENTS.md that explain what good abstraction boundary is and how to define is the problem is I am not sure I know how to put it into words, if anyone has idea please let me know.
machiaweliczny··on Scaling long-running autonomous coding
But detailed specs exists for both HTML and JS and tests also exists and unlimited amount of test data. You can just try running webpage or program and also have reference implementations - it's much easier for agents to understand that. Also HTML they know super well from scraping whole internet but still impressive.
machiaweliczny··on Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
Yeah, seems like this could be achieved by using https://github.com/streamich/memfs/blob/master/docs/snapshot...

Weird they don't use it - might backfire hard

machiaweliczny··on Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
BTW does anyone know of good assistant voice stack that's Open Source? I used https://github.com/ricky0123/vad for voice activation -> works good, then just using Web Speech API as that's the fastest and then commercial TTS for speed as couldn't find good one.
machiaweliczny··on Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
I tried Kokoro-JS that I think runs in browser and it was too way too slow with latency also not supporting language I wanted
machiaweliczny··on We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months
> Potential accidental data leakage from the “future”

Exactly. Makes no sense with models like grok. DeepSeek also likely has this leak as was trained later.

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