Extroverted Developer

Experts are usually expert of the past not the future

– Sebastian Thrun

Holy crap, the movement to get huge models working well on local hardware has kicked off and the results are impressive.

This morning I used this project https://github.com/danveloper/flash-moe.git

Which allows me to run this HUGE Qwen 3 – 327B parameter model ON MY LOCAL MACBOOK PRO. It’s a bit slow, but damn if it doesn’t work! SOTA on my LAPTOP

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I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to marketing. However, over the past week I’ve begun ads for Taskleef and today I overhauled the landing page.

I’d love feedback if anyone is willing to take a look https://taskleef.com

Maxxing is the thief of joy

That’s how I always read this anyway

That’s how I always read this anyway

Just like the Guilded Age robber barons. Only academics who study this time in history will know the name.

Unlike Julius Cesar, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Socrates, Abraham Lincoln

The difference? Introspection

There are several debates happening in the tech industry right now amongst software engineers. One of them goes along the lines of “If you don’t read the code the AI is producing, then how do you know what it does?!”

Things I find strange about this argument:

• No software engineer has read every single line of code that goes into a project
• Most don’t read their own entire code base, let alone any libraries or dependencies that go into them
• Reading code alone doesn’t tell you how it _actually_ works when you put everything together.
• NASA Showed that a formal code review process (reading the code) catches somewhere between 60%-90% of defects [Source 1, Source 2]

The serious answer to this is: Regardless of how code was created, you need to test it in order to know that it does what it’s supposed to

It doesn’t matter if you wrote it, you don’t know it works until you test it.

It doesn’t matter if an AI wrote it, you don’t know it works until you test it.

It doesn’t matter if another team wrote it, you don’t know it works until you test it.

It doesn’t matter if a compiler generated it, you don’t know it works until you test it.

There are many ways to verify code

• You can write automated testing of all sorts
• You can have formal verification systems such as algebraic types and rust’s borrow checker
• You can have humans manually test things
• You can have users test things

But in the end it’s the verification, the convincing yourself it works, that matters for taking responsibility. Not whether you read it or not.

Looks like Oil prices are going to remain higher for longer than everyone would like.

If I was trading individual stocks I’d buy Amazon. I see their Rivian made delivery vehicles everywhere!

EVs were already significantly more efficient than ICE cars, but now with the price of gas Amazon is going to be laughing all the way to the bank as their investment pays off long before anticipated.