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Where are the benchmarks? Does it just speed up inference and reduce token usage or does it seem to improve accuracy on certain tasks as well?
Built rightsize exactly for this. https://nehmeailabs.com/right-size
Others have already pointed out the absurdity, but just to put it across. Why not just ask first agent to update AGENTS.md adding context and next steps, and ask the next agent to continue from there?
Re:Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac on Monday July 20, 2026 @03:36PM (#48983821)
+1 came here to say this, I opened the link expecting some technical breakthrough. Misleading click bait title.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:15PM (#48751801)
Location: UAE Remote: Preferred Want to relocate: No

Philosophy: Brutally Efficient

More: https://aazar.me

I read it as an article in defence of boring tech with a fancier/clickbaity title.

Here’s the more honest one i wrote a while back:

https://aazar.me/posts/in-defense-of-boring-technology

Re:Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:47AM (#47250200)
Specialised models easily beat SOTA, case in point: https://nehmeailabs.com/flashcheck
Re:Number Research Inc on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:14AM (#47243376)
All of us use the same keyboards more or less, maybe us randomly typing a large number is not as random as we would like to think. Just like how “asdf”, “xcyb” are common strings because these keys are together, there has to be some pattern here as well.
Re:I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:24AM (#46765335)
Yes, I included a 'Model Selection Cheat Sheet' in the README (scroll down a bit).

I map them by task type:

Tiny (<3B): Gemma 3 1B (could try 4B as well), Phi-4-mini (Good for classification). Small (8B-17B): Qwen 3 8B, Llama 4 Scout (Good for RAG/Extraction). Frontier: GPT-5, Llama 4 Maverick, GLM, Kimi

Is that what you meant?

Show HN: LLM Sanity Checks – A practical guide to not over-engineering AI

https://github.com/NehmeAILabs/llm-sanity-checks

I keep seeing teams use frontier models for tasks a regex or a 4B model could do cheaper and faster.This repo is a collection of opinionated patterns and heuristics to help you rethink the architecture of your AI workflows and ease the decision-making process while ensuring maximum efficiency.It covers:- A decision tree for architectural sanity checks. - Tradeoffs between JSON and...

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Re:I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:03AM (#46762668)
This is the way. I actually mapped out the decision tree for this exact process and more here:

https://github.com/NehmeAILabs/llm-sanity-checks

Re:Stop using JSON for LLM structured output on Saturday January 24, 2026 @02:46AM (#46741820)
For simple extraction tasks, a delimiter-separated string uses 11 tokens vs 35 for JSON. Output tokens are the latency bottleneck.
Re:De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes on Monday September 01, 2025 @08:35AM (#45092249)
Love the minimalism.
Re:De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes on Monday September 01, 2025 @06:21AM (#45091377)
Shameless plug.

I’ve been using a cli tool i had created for over 2 years now, it just works. I had more ideas but never got to incorporate those.

https://github.com/44za12/horcrux

Re:Free AI Tool Removes Image Backgrounds in Seconds on Saturday August 30, 2025 @03:16AM (#45072582)
Have been using remove.bg for this for years now.
Like a sempahore?
Re:Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI on Thursday August 14, 2025 @12:55PM (#44902789)
I’ve had great luck with all gemma 3 variants, on certain tasks it the 27B quantized version has worked as well as 2.5 flash. Can’t wait to get my hands dirty with this one.
Re:Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews on Friday August 08, 2025 @02:20AM (#44834069)
Can you benchmark Kimi K2 and GLM 4.5 as well? Would be interesting to see where they land.
Re:Vibechart on Thursday August 07, 2025 @06:07PM (#44830972)
That was quick, vibe coded, I presume?
Re:C10kday on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:54AM (#44797421)
The ability to submit a story using a curl would have been fun.

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