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Fellas, hire me for something. I'm sure I could make money

1/24/2026 7:31:56 AM

We only hire robots now and worry about our own jobs. At least I do.

Ironically current company is mega scared of building new stuff even though the cost of doing stuff is low. There is the operational concern about how to support all this AI generated software.

1/24/2026 1:51:30 PM

Not disappointed if robot taxis take jobs of door dash folks, etc

1/29/2026 3:30:46 AM

Quote :

"There is the operational concern about how to support all this AI generated software."

we don't have a fully automated solution yet for pure backend issues but for frontend ones we are using Sentry.io to detect issues and then we have claude code 'autofix' as issues are detected - we are a few months into doing this and it's working incredibly well now

we started off by limiting to a max of 2 open PRs while we worked out kinks and refined claude.md file and corresponding rules files - initially it was doing stupid things like 'fixing' a frontend issue by calling a new backend API but it would only propose that a new backend API needs to be created without actually creating it for example - now it one-shots most fixes

now it runs almost entirely on its own and on the occasion it makes a mistake we make refinements - the effort level put in compared to the gains we are seeing aren't even close - it's made everyone's lives better unless you despise reviewing PRs

1/29/2026 10:04:12 AM

That's a huge win moving from theoretical to minimal input. It's wild all the workflows you see popping up mixed with the navel gazing about "maybe this will be probable" and "ai doesn't really work and just copies code". Super cool. Terrifying, but cool.

Have you seen it flag something like a cert or dns error that was a legitimate error but not a front end error per se?

1/29/2026 10:33:46 AM

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"Have you seen it flag something like a cert or dns error that was a legitimate error but not a front end error per se?"

don't think we've seen specifically a cert or dns issue but we have seen a sporadic cors / csp issue while we were doing some url migrations

1/29/2026 11:03:37 AM

Are you grounding it at all with something like speckit or conductor? Or just your own prompt tweaking to help the guard rails?

1/29/2026 11:57:38 AM

mostly rolled ourselves with a combination of prompt tweaking / claude.md rules & memory management

as mistakes are found in PRs we tweak along the way to make improvements - sometimes we change the overall claude.md but more often we are updating a claude.md file in a specific folder where claude just needed more context - it's everyone's job to check-in improvements to our md files although some are better than others

1/29/2026 3:50:04 PM

I started working with the organizers to help plan the meetups. I saw someone from red hat sign up to present— was that you snewf?

2/4/2026 3:15:47 PM

Resurrected an old device with ai

I have an MAudio Transit USB that hasn't had working Mac OS Drivers for 15 years. I decompiled the last known Mac drivers and told AI to make it work-- it took about 2 hours of back and forth (and my own knowledge on driver arch for this device) but it works!

https://ironj.github.io/maudio-transit/

2/5/2026 10:46:07 AM

This went semi viral on bsky, thought you all should be in the loop too:

Quote :

" 16000 tokens per second on a decent model. This type of speed is the future. Opens up an entirely new class of user experiences https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1r9e27i/free_asic_llama_31_8b_inference_at_16000_toks_no/ "

2/20/2026 5:55:01 PM

yeah llms on chip are gonna be a huge gamechanger. I would expect that Nvidia is looking at that immediately. to augment the groq acquisition with another aquihire or just building themselves.

2/22/2026 3:11:01 PM

Lenovo is building out a big ai group LATC in Raleigh if anyone needs a $200k+ job. I can pass your name to a recruiter if you consider yourself a senior ai engineer— just shoot me a dm.

3/31/2026 7:18:49 PM

i guess we really don't have a general "AI" thread, so I'm gonna keep jamming in here


i bought a micro PC to run local LLMs on - one of the multitude of AMD Strix Halo 395 variants. Been running Qwen 3.6 on it locally, and it's ok, tok/s is kinda slow, but it's fun to play with for stuff like Hermes agents. Nowhere near as good as your frontier models, but I definitely think this will be the wave sooner rather than later, especially since it's clear the free/subsidized token train is gonna dry up.

It's nice to be able to point OpenCode at a local llm, too, instead of relying on Claude Code for everything.

I'm currently training a caveman version of Qwen3.6 35b MoE on runpod to see if I can get the tok/s up.

5/2/2026 6:34:17 PM

AI on TWW

It's more likely than you'd think!

5/2/2026 8:30:42 PM

^^
I looked at Hermes after deploy openclaw because open claws backend has a bunch of problems. But I don’t think anyone has cracked the code on persistent agents— but I agree these are exceeding my expectations. The combination of an agent controlled memory and “soul” system seems to have a lot of emergent self correcting mechanisms. They’re very responsive to how they are on boarded though, they need a really good “employee manual” but I think we’re at the point where you can pre-train them for certain types of tasks and have them as drop in replacement for certain types of roles. The intellectual property is the accumulated memories and directives files.

5/2/2026 8:44:39 PM

[Edited on May 3, 2026 at 12:09 AM. Reason : ]

5/3/2026 12:08:35 AM

That was sort of my intent on the "OpenAI" thread.

I built up a fork of Nanoclaw that had an iOS app. It was pretty handy while I was using it, but never got the latency of the voice mode solid. It did work though. Could turn my ceiling fans on and off in the house. Which my wife replied, "Hasn't alexa been able to do that for 10 years?"

5/3/2026 2:22:19 PM

I know someone successfully using it as their first line tech support for a small business. Each customer has their own slack channel so the bot knows the full customer context and they use n8n and other automation tools around it to give the bot “managed” access to data sources

I had Openclaw build a Bluetooth logger with a local host only webui to tell if any suspicious devices were around. It made a book recommender web page for my partner to track books she likes and get new recs. Also setup an email address so it can do long running requests like find vacation recs etc. the agent harnesses need much better context management though that’s the root cause of any weird behavior I’ve seen so far (duplicate posts etc).

The image server on the tww Bot was setup entirely by claw, it even somehow requested a let’s encrypt ssl cert and setup the cert server to support https.

5/3/2026 5:07:06 PM

When you say it, what was the stack? I've implemented it separate ways. The first is kind of the naïve way. You transcribe the voice possibly on device if it's on a phone. Then you send the text to a smaller model. And stream the response back. As you get what you think is a large enough block of text you send it to text to voice.

A slightly better version uses one of the voice models where the audio goes to something like DeepSeek. The Open AI voice model is very good. But it's a little nerfed and you can't rig it to do tool calls.

5/3/2026 5:17:22 PM

It being Openclaw

I haven’t dived into voice models because my Openclaw is on a 10yr old nuc with a celeron processor an 8gb of ram— voice of any kind I think would be too slow (I also don’t like voice uis really). I think by years’ end all the models will have much better voice and video/image support and better reasoning and context capabilities. The robotic vision language action models essentially will be the next big thing. Voice inputs that can’t detect intonation or output it are a dead end I think

5/3/2026 5:45:10 PM

It's probably fine to stream the voice to one of these APIs. I said DeepSeek above but meant DeepGram: https://deepgram.com/. It speeds the voice exchange up a bit, but never got natural conversation levels.

The vast majority of the few dozen tech people in the area I currently live all work in Robotics and use VLA models. One has a startup to collect data for training and he helped me with my robot dabbling.

5/4/2026 7:13:13 AM

Quote :

"I looked at Hermes after deploy openclaw because open claws backend has a bunch of problems. But I don’t think anyone has cracked the code on persistent agents— but I agree these are exceeding my expectations. The combination of an agent controlled memory and “soul” system seems to have a lot of emergent self correcting mechanisms. They’re very responsive to how they are on boarded though, they need a really good “employee manual” but I think we’re at the point where you can pre-train them for certain types of tasks and have them as drop in replacement for certain types of roles. The intellectual property is the accumulated memories and directives files. "

This is what i *think* services like Glean are trying to do in the enterprise space, but you're right - the persistent memory layer + semantic context is the killer unlock. I dont think you need an enterprise grade solution for this though. If you know how to set up infrastructure, you can probably do it yourself. Lots of shops have extremely competent devs who have done this before.


My experience with Hermes is mixed so far - with local llms I'm hitting the limits of the box itself (shit is pretty slow). I am kinda wondering what a hybrid architecture looks like, where I can offload a lot of the work to something cheap, but it takes a lot of planning to get it right. My agentic dev experience is pretty buttoned up, i use a lot of well-structured workflows to execute quickly, and I make sure to build a lot of inherent context into the codebases i start on to make sure that when i start working, there's not a lof of thrashing to make an impact. With Hermes it's been quite a bit different, because it relies on building up context in a different way, and persisting memories is also different.



RE: local box slowness: Coldstart with my Qwen3.6 caveman for a simple "give me 5 bullet points on why I should use react instead of vue" is ~24s. By contrast, with Vanilla Qwen it's like ~40s. And when I use a hosted inference model, i've seen as low as ~2s.

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5/4/2026 10:09:35 AM

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2052060691893227611

Usage is doubled and partnering with SpaceX

5/6/2026 3:41:46 PM

Wonder when grok is shutting down …

5/6/2026 10:09:33 PM

Feels like just a squeeze on OpenAI. Elon has been hitting them on all fronts for at least two years. May as well give their biggest competitor an advantage too.

5/7/2026 9:14:16 AM

Honestly xAI pivoting into an infrastructure play is the only thing that makes sense, because no one takes grok seriously, and twitter is not ever going to generate revenue. Tesla is only managing to survive because of political protectionism preventing the sale of Chinese EVs in the US. It’s all a fucking shell game, my dudes.

5/7/2026 12:58:36 PM

https://github.com/antirez/ds4

Redis guy's local DeepSeek.

5/7/2026 1:34:45 PM

i like how he casually drops "this works great on a mac with 128gb"

like bro what

5/8/2026 11:52:17 AM

i only have 64

5/9/2026 4:13:22 PM

/r/macbookmasterrace

Just priced it out. Only $5399. Less than I expected. Think I would just get a spark for that price and Tailscale in.

5/9/2026 4:45:38 PM

I considered a spark when I was buying my pc a few weeks back. Didn’t feel like the return was good enough for the price difference. Saw a video of a guy who bought some Nvidia Tesla circa 2017-18 and got it running at home for about $300. Tempted to try it myself, but I am just kiting cheap models via open router for the moment.

5/11/2026 8:21:13 PM

fwiw - if you have a business and you're using this for business, r&d expenditures are 100% deductible. buddy spent 30k on a machine with 2x blackwell 6000s.

5/12/2026 4:07:54 PM

Just got a job offer for sr applied ai engineer at Apple— will have to move to California though

Gonna miss Raleigh

5/12/2026 11:22:42 PM

congrats! that's a big move

[Edited on May 12, 2026 at 11:39 PM. Reason : move back if/when apple actually builds the RTP campus?]

5/12/2026 11:38:38 PM

^
Thanks! Yeah that would be ideal but I’m not holding my breath

Kinda feels like climbing aboard the last life raft before all the good software jobs disappear

5/12/2026 11:41:36 PM

i feel that. feels impossible to know what the industry is gonna look like in 5 years, let alone retirement age. get your bag while you can

5/12/2026 11:52:41 PM

damn moron congrats! i bet you are gonna have like all the latest iphones and stuff now. I can't even imagine how long the hiring process is for a position like that

Are they going to make a press release? the hire makes sense, they need AI ppl bad cause they suck so much at it

5/12/2026 11:55:40 PM

^ first interview was in January then 7 more sprinkled throughout and a lot of waiting

They have a ton of ai job openings (as does every company now). I interviewed for an other role and the vibes were off with the skip manager.

But as qntmfred knows we were some of the earliest people on the deep learning bandwagon— I think we both were in inaugural classes 10+ years ago for ai focused MOOCs. This has been a long journey from that perspective

[Edited on May 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM. Reason : ]

5/13/2026 12:05:14 AM

i just got hit up for a first interview next week for a position i applied to like feb 20. i was like damn wtf. guess they got someone that didn't work out

5/13/2026 12:06:33 AM

Super nice. Congrats! There are a ton of nice areas down that way if it's Cupertino. Figure out the traffic patterns before you commit to a place to stay. Some areas look close but have horrid commutes.

5/13/2026 7:40:51 AM

Sunnyvale. I’m going to have to lookout for needles and poo too I guess

5/13/2026 10:46:18 AM

begin the countdown to moron's political awakening

5/13/2026 11:17:08 AM

The South Bay is kind of like Elysium. You'll be pampered and shielded from all that stuff, especially being an Apple employee. It's a lot nicer south of SF. If you live in SF and take CalTrain you'll get some fun experiences. Also commuting up to the city for cultural experiences.

5/13/2026 11:42:56 AM

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-tech-jobs-that-are-safe-from-ai-8d415383?st=nMAeJS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Sounds like moron is safe

5/13/2026 8:59:08 PM

Quote :

"Speaking as a postdoc in math, I must say that this is rather exciting. This is outside of my field, but the companion remarks document is quite digestible. It appears as though the proof here fairly inspired by results in literature, but the tweaks are non-trivial. Or, at least to me, they appear to be substantial to where I would consider the entire publication novel and exciting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212493

5/21/2026 8:21:44 AM

Several people at the AI meet up I spoke out last night had 128 GB MacBooks. Have my piddly 48 GB for sale now.

5/22/2026 11:18:58 AM

^ billionaire boys club

I've been cranking with openrouter and Deepseek 4 flash, and I'm super happy with it

5/23/2026 3:14:36 PM

My suspicion is a year from now the hardware landscape for ai personal computers is going to be very different. I’d hang on to the 48gb a bit longer to see what pops out. im Also expecting diffusion to squeeze more capability out of current gen hardware soon too

Also what’s you speak about

[Edited on May 23, 2026 at 3:33 PM. Reason : ]

5/23/2026 3:25:09 PM