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Just tried both the Omni model and the text only model, both as mlx versions, in lm studio omlx and rapid mlx, none of them could actually fire the model up, kept saying safetensors cant be read (yes I realize Claude should hear this not this thread).

You should talk to a lawyer. And not post something like this publicly

Electric semi tractors are impractical in all but drayage use cases (port to warehouse short haul). Even then, they require specialized yards and hours to charge, and they are twice as expensive as diesel tractors. Refueling a diesel truck takes minutes. Plus the electrical grid impact to supporting the charging of these trucks, keeping just 50 trucks charged annually uses as much electricity as a decent sized town.

For autonomous trucking, you’re grossly underestimating 1) how dangerous these trucks are. A small rear end accident with a car does some damage, a small rear end from a tractor with 80k pounds of cargo kills people. 2) They are hard to drive, hard to navigate in cities, require inspections constantly for roadworthiness and safety. Sure having a tractor pull a load on a few hundred miles of straight empty highway in Texas is doable today, having that same truck get to a warehouse in the center of Dallas is a nightmare even for pro drivers. 3) Plus no one knows how to legislate or regulate these things. If a robot tractor kills someone, who is at fault? The vehicle maker? The autonomy software maker? The carrier? There are already nuclear verdict lawsuits for these types of situations with human truck drivers that can be tens to hundreds of millions of dollars I.e. shut down a carrier bad. You think a bunch of octogenarians in congress know what the hell to do with any of this stuff?

I say all of this while also fully agreeing that consumer autonomy seems to have been solved or is on its way to being solved, I’d bet in 5 years it will be weird to get an uber and there’s a person actually driving. Commercial heavy duty trucking is a whole different class of problems that goes well beyond “can the software do it”.

Source: I make software for trucking carriers and drivers

Not the same but adjacent hobby, I’ve had good success with feeding 3mf files to Claude (usually just fable in desktop app) that I found on maker world to prompt for modifications to the model and it works damn well. Stuff like changing a functional model from press fit only to using inset m bolts and nuts. Way better than doing it by hand in a cad app

Funny, I was working with Claude and Astra today ideating on how Loco and topcoat could be integrated for the ultimate modern rails alternative stack

Not to mention all of the SOTA AI subscriptions handle this perfectly now when there aren’t csv exports

I’m playing with this exact concept but going down the path of a Claude code plugin that is optimized for configuring lowdefy apps because of that framework’s unique approach where you don’t write code you generate yaml configs that then drive the rendering of an app. So far it’s working pretty well, still pressure testing it. The audit control and permissions management you have is great, especially around the connectors. Nice job!

I just redid my homelab/media server (switched from an old NUC I couldn’t figure out how to stop overheating even with some decent modification work, now using an hp elitedesk with an i5 processor that is handling my stack nicely). Thinking about setting up a vm on the base ubuntu install for isolation to run Claude in. May play with dispatch, may just put raw Claude code then use Moshi app on my iPhone and iPad.

I use this little three liner regularly with people in regards to AI (applicable as much to coding as it is business work):

- I don't care how you produce the words

- I expect you to use tools to be as efficient and productive as possible

- You are accountable for every word you produce

Oh how I miss old school forums. It’s crazy to me how communities are wholesale embracing discord, which just is not the right form factor at all for anything but ephemeral real time chat. I remember engaging in threads on real forums for literally years. It was so great

I’ve been noodling on an idea sort of similar, which is to have a system where if you register for an account and very your site (with a technical mechanism in place to enforce that), you get a slight boost in the ranking algorithm for your content. Then, if you pay a small monthly fee, you get an additional boost in rankings, as well as some amount of (anonymized appropriately) analytics about your content performance on the site. Not sure if anyone would ever want to use that and I don’t have anywhere near the traffic for that to be worth it yet, but seems worth playing with.

I also want to add content digests/newsletters that highlights best content of the week for sharing on twitter and via email to those who register accounts. Typical growth marketing stuff

It’s funny, sites like these are so divisive. I’ve gotten as many “do not llm summarize anything for me” as I’ve gotten “this is super handy!” responses. I like them, so I’m keeping them.

Interesting idea overall. Could be generalized to just general trend identification I think based on named entity recognition (like google trends). Over time you can trace first mentions of stuff and buzz over time. I’ll noodle on it.

Generally it’s things like that yes, but also stuff like preparing the pulled content to be summarized and then taking those summary batches and preparing for synthesis in a templated format