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Re:Local AI Is Dead. You Are at the Funeral on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:26AM (#49508844)
Of course someone that sells cloud computing would publish this drivel. My local qwen3.8 27b system doing valuable work night after night disagrees.
Re:Small Models Have Arrived on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:16PM (#49470616)
I wouldn't call $0.2/$1.2 "ridiculously cheap"
Re:There's no such thing as a small software team anymore on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:39PM (#49383042)
There is no "small team" pushing 100PRs/day, agents or not.
From my limited tests, Qwen has better reasoning which is a bummer because Muse Glimmer is literally twice as fast.
Re:Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang on Thursday June 04, 2026 @08:22AM (#48397640)
I really don’t understand how people can even consider LLMs to be anything more than an extremely sophisticated auto-complete. Logic thinking itself emerges from completing patterns. Nothing more to it than that.
Re:Mechanical Keyboard Sounds on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:02AM (#47832609)
As a software developer, I absolutely despise loud keyboard sounds that I didn’t produce myself. In an office setting, fast typists with loud mechanical keyboards are the absolute worst (thank God for AirPods)!
I was running Immich for a while until the iPhone client app on my wife’s phone completely stopped syncing photos. So I ended up vibe coding my own photo management software in .NET using PostgreSql/Redis and React front end (PWA). Has face recognition too (used the same models Immich uses from huggingface). Works perfectly, photo library scanning/face recognition/thumbnail creation/etc performance is WAY better than Immich (uses .NET background jobs and lots of parallelism and hardware acceleration on my Mac mini server). Turns out if you only care for the thing to work on your own gear you can optimize the code for it quite a bit. It took 2 weekends and Claude code. And with tailscale, it’s hosted on my Mac mini at home and accessible from anywhere through https. I have around 40k+ photos+ phone videos, and the server is a base Mac mini previous gen (8GB ram). Oh, and forgot to add, the app supports downloading/moving photos from iCloud through the undocumented CloudKit APIs behind the iCloud.com web app, complete with 2fa.