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treefry··on Gemini 4 Argon
The benchmark scores are not exciting. I understand Google is playing a catch up game right now, but still wish to see some overwhelming improvements.
treefry··on Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]
Nevermind. Switching to Opus 5.5.
treefry··on GPT-6 Astra
From my experience with complex coding tasks (AI infra), I don't think these open weight models are close.
treefry··on I think I have LLM burnout
From my experience, there are mainly 3 burnout reasons. 1. Multi-tasking is the top one. I usually have to frequently switch between 3 to 5 agent windows which are on different things. It's extremely exhausting when each round takes a few minutes. Before coding agent era, I believe most developers had chance to spend 2+ hours focusing on one thing. Now coding agents have increased my spectrum on the tech stack, but the bandwidth to do deep work isn't increased. 2. Agents are good at getting things running without crash, but do not guarantee to produce correct code. This is quite different from human experts with fundamental knowledge. 3. I also get frustrated when reviewing piles of AI generated low quality PRs. My attention is a limited resource. I don't waste too much energy on other people's work, but if I don't spend more effort, the entire project is corrupted quickly by reckless AI generated code without human author's careful thoughts and designs. Working with people who have less due diligence in mind is painful, working with them in coding agent era is 10x painful because they produce 10x shit. It's a team culture challenge that cannot be easily enforced.
treefry··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
Unless you self host, zero data retention cannot be guaranteed.
treefry··on GitHub Stacked PRs
Same here. Don't understand why Github hasn't supported this until now. I'm tired of reviewing PRs with thousands of lines of changes, which are getting worse nowadays with vibe coding.
treefry··on Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Are they likely to take a new strategy that they no longer open source their largest and strongest models?
treefry··on Cursor 1.7
Right. Yesterday I tried a simple task that just adds Required[] notation to all class fields. After making the change on one field, Cursor allows me to press tabs and update all other fields. VSCode doesn't understand what I was trying to do after the first operation, which is surprisingly bad (no improvement after months). Also I'm not in favor of the conversational experience of claude code or other CLIs for such trivial task. I'd be happy to know what else can provide a better user experience than Cursor.

Disclaimer: I get enterprise level subscriptions to these services via my employer. I personally don't pay for them and never consider their cost, if that matters.

treefry··on Is GitHub Down?
Yeah a lot of functions broke since around 19:40 UTC.
treefry··on ARIA: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model
Looks like 64GB or more
treefry··on LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices
I tried to set up Dart runtime and run cli on a Linux server. Then I realized that it just prints a message and quits. Maybe it's better to directly tell user cli isn't implemented yet.
treefry··on US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
They cannot manufacture such advanced chip even if they have circuit design.
treefry··on Elderly Florida couple killed after their Tesla crashes into semi
The problem is Y is more uniform but X is not. Good drivers make significantly fewer mistakes than the average. For these people, using software potentially increases risk by order of magnitudes.
treefry··on Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel
Not surprising as Moore's law had stopped applying to CPU. Assuming each year CPU gets 20% improvement, from 2012 to 2021 the latest cpu is 5x more powerful than the old one. Considering 30% performance loss for converting x86 instructions to ARM, 4x is a reasonable number.
treefry··on When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up
Traffic to Pornhub went up by 10%
treefry··on Mobile LTE Coverage Map
It's not uncommon on T-Mobile post paid plan.
treefry··on Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
Recently Amazon starts to ask for OTP every time I open its website. Is it due to the new tracking protection feature?
treefry··on Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
It’s awesome investigation and well written!