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Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by Farmadupe2 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:25PM (#50470853)
For the last five months or so, opus and fable have both been able to do this task as a soneshot prompt. An inference engine is almost pure compute and to a first approximation the only operation your hardware needs to support to do llm inference is multiplication [the rest of an inference engine is "some trig"].

So to get any model working on $OLD_HARDWARE, the hardest part of the task is now sourcing the hardware itself and giving the agent ssh access -- a modern agent will be able to source a compiler, write the implementation, optimize it, test in qemu (or any other simulator) and push it onto the device.

Example prompt: "write an inference engine for qwen3 0.6b in pure assembly that runs on this device. Write a script to attach the weights to the resulting binary. Prefix is supplied as a stream of u32 token IDs on stdin. The engine streams u32 token IDs on stdout."

Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mrashad74 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:52PM (#50471287)
I agree with you, and I'm using claude and other models heavily, the idea is not in the soneshot - because actually as you see in the logs I posted on github, it took around 107 + 50-ish experiments to figure out which models to run which and push the speed.

I'm treating it as a search algorithm project, where I develop the methdology and search for pushing the limit of devices and searching in a big space of possible kernels and so for what works for a specific hardware.

so I'm looking at it from a different prespective, it takes a lot of brute forcing, and claude can do this well, the whole game (to me) is which directions you push the model into to reduce the search space. and how that learning from very small and tight devices you can scale these techniques.

But in essence, I don't disagree with your sentiment - the goal is not 0.6B models, these are extremely trivial as you mentioned and as I showed in the experiments, the goal is 16B+ models, and this as far as I've seen, requires smart methods to search for optimizations and customizations both to the model and inference engines.

Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by OG_BME on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:08PM (#50471533)
Why did you both say "soneshot"? Same typo of oneshot?
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by cb5r on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:22PM (#50471760)
I just asked myself the same thing and wondered if this was some new technique that completely slipped past me. - But it certainly must be a double typo
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by NooneAtAll5 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:27PM (#50471850)
orrr we can listen to paranoia that these 2 comments are just an elaborate advertisement
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by fouc on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:27PM (#50476920)
[delayed]
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mrashad74 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:53AM (#50478899)
the kind of one shots you get with fable 5.5 :D (it was a double typo)
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by freehorse on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:26AM (#50482541)
"double typo"

When you find two sants in the kitchen, you are certain to find more sants. Won't fool ME.

Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:29AM (#50484013)
This actually dates back to Warren Buffet saying, there is never just one scockroach in the ktichen
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by lawandjustice on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:25PM (#50475878)
Soneshot is a much better technique for such and such type of projects
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by Zecc on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:27PM (#50477325)
It's not clear whether the second one isn't a scheapshot at making fun of the first one.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by QuantumNomad_ on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:58AM (#50479892)
Hey, this is the Internet. It’s serious business! We shouldn’t make sfun of people!
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mbil on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:10AM (#50482385)
Because the response was written by an LLM running on a tamagotchi
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mrashad74 on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:34AM (#50482625)
a sentient tamagotchi is not far from us..
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by k0morebi on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:52AM (#50484408)
So funny, I saw this before bed and planned to look it up in the morning thinking I recently missed out on some kind of killer prompt technique. Woke up and came back to this thread to find typos
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mrashad74 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:16AM (#50484761)
Typos are a sign of human intelligence :D
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by systima on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:18PM (#50471686)
What is “soneshot”?
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by jjice on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:56PM (#50474160)
I think it's a typo of "oneshot", referring to a single prompt being able to handle the entire task.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by Farmadupe on Thursday November 12, 2026 @05:21PM (#50475184)
Yes that was my typo. Sorry about that.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by freehorse on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:24AM (#50482520)
But you did the typo two times?
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by Julia_marry on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:56PM (#50471349)
So true, people think they can prompt AI, tell it to create something amazing and "Novel" so they can feel cool and bragg about it. Shame on such people.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mrashad74 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:57PM (#50471371)
no one said it's amazing or novel, it's just a fun experiement I'm not selling this :) just out of curiousity to explore.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by Julia_marry on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:04PM (#50471469)
Are you seriously a coder? I did not say that you are claiming novel or amazing. I defined the prompt. Coders never miss anything and you just became so aggressive that goes against hacker news community guidelines.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by zamadatix on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:27PM (#50474531)
It's okay to share fun thoughts even if you haven't put blood sweat and tears into them.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by gabucino on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:44PM (#50473996)
lol sure

"claudia slop me up some 600m, commit, push, make 500 pages of slopped README.md, github stars+++"

great, you should definitely do this, there will be absolutely no problems whatsoever and it'll also run at peak speeds while of course being completely unusable because who wants to run a slopped 600m

t. at 1200+ commits on my "oneshot"

Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mrashad74 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:43PM (#50474734)
No one will run a slopped 600M or even 16B for anything serious today, the whole goal is to experiment, to push both limits of what can be done with the model, and the hardware itself.

It's fun times actually. And I think such experiments and others posted are both showcasing the limits people are pushing.

Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by anthk on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:33AM (#50482618)
Well, my netbook. Atom n270, 1GB of RAM, 1.5GB potentially with ZRAM. If it can run in that, a Pentium 4 with SSE2 would be the closest setup down.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mrashad74 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:31AM (#50484071)
this would be a nice challange but from what I did, very doable.. not a usable speed maybe.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by Foobar8568 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:20AM (#50483893)
It won’t one shot it and it’ll be packed with issues. I know, I have done a few similar toys in the past months. And the biggest challenges will be on the integrity and performance especially if we aren’t too knowledgeable. And considering that I feel the current iteration bullshit more than at one stage this year…
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by IncRnd on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:35AM (#50484120)
You mentioned one-shot prompts. What you provided is a zero-shot prompt, not a one-shot prompt. The main difference is that one-shot prompts provide an example and use fewer tokens, where zero-shot prompts will tend to have output that differs in format and correctness on every run.