Weekly notes

• Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations: Clanker benchmarks are dodgy dodgy. Never forget this!
• Experiences with local models for coding: Need lots of memory (64gb+) for mediocre results currently. Lots of gratitude for people who are doing this experimentation. This does seem to be improving but probably there is a minimum amount of resources required to work in a long conversation or a medium to large code base.
• Limit line lengths to increase readability: Today I learned there is a character unit which is the width of the ‘0’ character in the current font.

article {
  max-width: 60ch;
}

• I’m the “unscientific testing” guy. Here’s my thoughts on the steam machine after 9 days: The steam machine is pretty great. The reviews on youtube talking about cost and performance are not speaking to anything I care about …
• Mastodon, The Only Good Choice: I agree with this sentiment but some people I follow are only using Bluesky. I never use twitter anymore.