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Very informative article. I was hazy on where NVLink sat in the local inference stack. This makes it very clear: to adapt consumer hardware that lacks multiple full x16 PCIe lanes.

Those were the days

I switched to Codex in November 2025 because I couldn't stand the smarmy, "You're absolutely right" anymore. Codex at the time offered less sycophancy and more pushback when I was actually wrong. I also feel it writes cleaner code since it follows my instructions better to not write unrequested code, not create unnecessary abstractions, and not reinvent any wheels. I use LLMs on a tight-leash in HITL for web development, monitoring traces as it goes. I rarely use it for more than just writing code that I specify and I rarely let it "have it's head" and work unmonitored. I use it on the API plan since I need it to be reliable. No outage issues that I can recall.

I used this a decade ago, and it was a joy to use for someone who grew up with Macromedia/Adobe Flash scripting. In 2026, I would have thought that regular HTML/CSS would have caught up with this. Maybe it has, I don't do any animations anymore.

Crummy blog crashed my browser tab with all the nonsense it loaded

Love it! My first website was on Angelfire, and I am still at it 30 years later. It made an impression on me.

But I can't think of a good play on words for Angelfire either

Gosh, why does this sound familiar to me?

His articles blow me away. Like the one where he plumbed a pair of Grace-Hopper superchips with liquid cooling for a home rig.

Was it this guy? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322887

Very true. I would think you could say the same about xAI too, with their pivot. They don't have experience in this sphere directly.

I think boffin is a Britishism. I have heard it other places, not just on El Reg. Specifically: a lot on Top Gear when it was hosted by Clarkson.

First taste is always free! But when the 10 billionth taste continues to be free, you have to start to wonder about your dealer.

More or less our approach here too. They offered to help with our work at a loss for themselves, why not take them up on it? Not necessarily to hurt the AI labs, but just because we'd be foolish not to take something offered at such a discount.

Correct. They theoretically updated the open weight version to the capabilities of the latest closed weight one.

Makes sense if they are planning to concede in Ukraine. The Russian economy is dependent on continued military buildup, so they will try to continue with that but go back to their cold war-era posturing with the forces and matériel produced.

The problem of the hype-train starting to cool is the only real problem it solved or will ever solve

Does this mean that work created with it can be copyrighted? Since the courts ruled that the inclusion of pilfered IP was the reason other model's work cannot be copyrighted, I would think so! In that case, this is a completely different beast. It can maybe be used for things that need a durable copyright.

Their board of directors are literally wanted by the US for crimes. What do people expect from such a company? I shake my head any time I see a VW.

This really makes it clear. Thank you!

I have always taken an untrusting approach to LLMs for coding, born out of them being absolute trash at first. They're 1000x better now, but I still guide it every step of the way. It limits my speed gains, but I got what I wanted: no more typing out code and looking up patterns to get the exact syntax.

It must not be that difficult since I have never used a Meta product in my life. I had a Livejournal, lol.

What a lot of use on here are salivating for is the ability to run these on prosumer hardware at home. So we tend to jump to the conclusion that "standard" means "consumer-grade" because that's what we want to see. Still, very cool work!

Mmmm, what I could do with a cluster of H100s like that. Tim Allen grunt

The caddyshack gophers must have moved on to chemical warfare

There's a helpful response. It could always be worse!

Very true. I was considering PostHog, but this sours them in my eyes. Very deceptive wording.

I like it, thanks for recommending

Once a vice is taxed, it becomes a budget line item for the local government and is much harder to get rid of

This has been my experience as well

I'm sure I don't understand all the technical aspects, but I do understand that this is frickin' cool. Nice work.