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Comment · 9 days ago
Comment · 9 days ago
I use some rules and a few generated scripts and have a LLM handle the management of the containers. Security through a ssh gateway, allows them to deploy/remove containers and then the rule is to stay at least two weeks behind on releases, unless the latest release is security related, which it figures out by reading the release notes.

I ran watchtowerr before, but I think this is a smarter way to do it.

Comment · 18 days ago
>you basically have to write a ROADMAP.md that details each step

I agree that a ROADMAP.md is needed, but I just ask the LLM to write that. Doesn't everyone do that?

Comment · 19 days ago
It's a concept car. It might have been designed by a number of interns and any of the numbers including price, performance, range are to a large degree guessed or calculated from theoreticals.

First thing I always look for in new car announcement, the dreaded "concept car". Then you can close the page pretty much.

Comment · 27 days ago
I just ran a set of benchmarks, ninfer-3090-qwen3.8-27b (so mix of Q4 and Q5) vs strata-qwen3.8-flash-next-iq3_xxs (so Q3):

│------------------- │ Ninfer-3090 │ Strata

│ Code generation │ 52/78 (66.7%) │ 70/78 (89.7%)

│ Code completion │ 40/50 (80.0%) │ 44/50 (88.0%)

│ Total------------- │ 92/128 (71.9%) │ 114/128 (89.1%)

│ API failures------ │ 10 │ 5

- Ninfer generation: ~122 min total.

- Strata generation: ~142 min total.

So strata is a little slower, but keep in mind that ninfer-3090 is very optimized for a Qwen 3.8. Standard Qwen 3.8 runs at 20 t/s, this modified version can do 50 t/s (but it's extremely long in it's thinking, it just goes on and on.

This is on a 3090 that will crash unless power capped, with a Zen 2 CPU, 64GB DDR4 with a PCIe that refuses to go higher than 8x (basically pretty crappy all in all).

Yet with some tweaking and optimizing I still manage to get strata to run at 40 to 60 t/s.

That strata has been optimized on my Oh My Pi conversations. So when I'm using it, it's probably faster and closer to ninfer in speed than during those unoptimized benchmark tests.

Comment · 29 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
In my own experience, qwen3.8-27b 4bit can consistently find bugs in software written by sonnet 5 and opus 5. But it does do that at maybe 1/10th the speed. Still a pretty good deal if you're coding without wanting to spend big.

qwen3.8-27b 4bit has a following specifically for being exceptionally gifted for such a small model.

Comment · 1 month ago
It's containerized. It's an easy enough problem to solve, if you don't want it complicated.

Here's what I did with my own setup: Stop the containers at night, copy the files to a second system that's configured with the same containers and that can become the primary as needed.

I already monitor my systems for health and backup states, so these would be added to that. But all that does take a few hours to set up.

You want your backups regardless and you want to have some certainty they're working/good. It's a problem that needs to be addressed, even you are going to agree with me on that.

Comment · 1 month ago
Of course I do. There's also chairs in case there's an issue with the couch.
Comment · 1 month ago
I have so many projects on my computer where it doesn't matter if I know how it works or not. Probably well over 100. I think closer to 200, depending on how you count.

They're relatively simple, they do the task they need to and then they wait until they're needed again (or not).

In the past I wrote them, then forgot how they worked, until I needed them again, relearned what I did and adapted it.

Now I just don't have to know how exactly they work, I just get an AI to read the documentation anytime I need to reuse the project and I'll query the AI to fill in the details and to make changes and I ask the AI to run the code and debug it.

Perfect use cases for today's AIs. Doesn't even require SOTA, I can run comfortably on a Sonnet 5 or a Qwen 3.8 and it'll do exactly what it needs to do without making too many mistakes.

Not all code is large corporate code bases.

Comment · 1 month ago
>At the core, it's just an Ubuntu machine with a web server that hosts a dashboard and routes HTTP(s) requests to containerized apps.

So no fail over/redundancy? I think at minimum it should be two machines, so one can break. That is one of the important features of cloud applications as far as I'm concerned.

You don't have to deal with the problem of a single computer breaking.

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