wcallahan
Joined 4 years ago
Joined 4 years ago
I did set the default at medium, but the xhigh still seems to be a big part of its benefits.
I found it really easy to chat with it and instantly see flaws in its thinking when using the medium level of reasoning... in a way that had me consider that the frontier models reasoning abstractions (both at the harness level, e.g., claude code, codex) AND in the server-side obfuscation) that I found refreshing, because it made it easy for me to step in and precisely identify the failures of reasoning that the frontier models were getting stuck on, and because of the 'black box' hiddenness of their reasoning, it made it harder for me to diagnose.
So, I suppose I'm saying 'there is a time and place for each'.
Here is my setup: https://williamcallahan.com/blog/qwen-3-8-27b-is-a-great-ope...
I love the idea of this as well.
Do you plan to make it available as open source software also? I think it goes a long way towards trust in the platform/software.
Much cleaner, shorter code and type safety with Postgres (my schema tends to be highly normalized too). And these days I’ve got it well integrated with Zod for type safe JS/TS front-ends as well.
I’ve always believed governments and companies should be regarded with fairly low trust, and the behavior of big tech companies and some recent government actions are great examples why.
But what disappoints me a bit about this moment is (the perhaps inevitable?) response to nationalism with more nationalism.
Just as I didn’t seek to punish the EU over authoritarianism in Hungary and Poland, I feel the current moment has many responding to the symptoms instead of the sources of the problems. This is not a defense of policies I believe concern you, it’s a question of priorities.
I think the author of the article got it right. Because in addition to privacy, I believe one should be able to navigate the internet freely without a mandate to do business with monopolistic dominant companies, which includes rights like ownership of your data.
I pay for Docker licenses, even though not meeting the criteria for business size requiring it, as I wanted reliable image fetching for my self hosted container CI/CD pipelines failing docker hub image fetches.
But as of now, my oAuth logins to Docker expire within hours now, and I’ve been left with no choice but to scatter in search of diffuse container image alternative sources for my Dockerfiles to stop this madness.
My one way permanent migration from Docker Hub sourced images has finally left me with no reason to keep paying for Docker licenses due to whatever this misguided or blundered rate limit implementation is.
So I use Apple Maps, Mapbox, OpenStreetMap, and Google Maps… sometimes to check the results with multiple providers, and sometimes to divvy up the free allotment.
For anyone using Java/Kotlin/JVM, I made an SDK for Apple Maps: https://github.com/WilliamAGH/apple-maps-java which is one with a generous included tier.
curl -L -o brief.zip https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief/releases/latest/download... unzip brief.zip cd brief-*/ ./bin/brief
I wasn’t expecting the main topic of what I’ve been building to appear on the cover of hacker news today, so I was caught a bit unprepared, but they were definitely on the todo list next!
https://github.com/WilliamAGH/tui4j
It combines a port of BubbleTea from Go, and Textual and other inspired rewrites of other functionality.
It’s a fork of someone’s earlier work that I sought to expand/stabilize.
I built a beautifully simple LLM chat interface with full dialog windows, animations, and full support for keyboard and mouse interactivity parity, showing what this Java library is capable of.
Example chat app: https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief
Would love to see others build similar things with it!
Personal website: williamcallahan.com