skyking
@jkachmar.com
sounding rockets & bad computer programming
formerly Groq, Soostone, NASA Wallops, among others
formerly Groq, Soostone, NASA Wallops, among others
i think the really interesting piece is how much of the underlying semantics can be recovered from the syntax, and as a result how much of what we’re impressed by here is manipulation of a hidden semantic layer.
January 10, 2026 at 6:37 PM
i think the really interesting piece is how much of the underlying semantics can be recovered from the syntax, and as a result how much of what we’re impressed by here is manipulation of a hidden semantic layer.
every lawyer in my life: no one should go to law school
after talking with me for 5 minutes: okay wait actually you SHOULD go to law school…
after talking with me for 5 minutes: okay wait actually you SHOULD go to law school…
vicious mockery “you would make a great lawyer” 1d4 psychic damage + disadvantage
January 10, 2026 at 6:34 PM
every lawyer in my life: no one should go to law school
after talking with me for 5 minutes: okay wait actually you SHOULD go to law school…
after talking with me for 5 minutes: okay wait actually you SHOULD go to law school…
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It’s just bookspam hours now sorry everyone stop doomscrolling and look at my BOOK
January 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
It’s just bookspam hours now sorry everyone stop doomscrolling and look at my BOOK
ultimately there’s no reason for them to produce a model that isn’t harmful in this manner.
4o was an unexpected success in terms of user stickiness and they’re going to have more luck with that template than trying to compete with Anthropic on the merits of output quality.
4o was an unexpected success in terms of user stickiness and they’re going to have more luck with that template than trying to compete with Anthropic on the merits of output quality.
January 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
ultimately there’s no reason for them to produce a model that isn’t harmful in this manner.
4o was an unexpected success in terms of user stickiness and they’re going to have more luck with that template than trying to compete with Anthropic on the merits of output quality.
4o was an unexpected success in terms of user stickiness and they’re going to have more luck with that template than trying to compete with Anthropic on the merits of output quality.
who wouldn’t have a crush on Latino Trotsky?
January 10, 2026 at 5:10 PM
who wouldn’t have a crush on Latino Trotsky?
not just the diff viewer too, it happens on normal file browsing as well :(
January 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
not just the diff viewer too, it happens on normal file browsing as well :(
i think, to the degree that this is a compliment, it’s got a very strong backhand
January 10, 2026 at 6:17 AM
i think, to the degree that this is a compliment, it’s got a very strong backhand
if you can point it at the right set of conceptual coordinates it will pull stuff out of there and slot what it can neatly into the area you’re applying it to.
you still need to know ball, though, which has always been the problem.
you still need to know ball, though, which has always been the problem.
January 10, 2026 at 6:05 AM
if you can point it at the right set of conceptual coordinates it will pull stuff out of there and slot what it can neatly into the area you’re applying it to.
you still need to know ball, though, which has always been the problem.
you still need to know ball, though, which has always been the problem.
you ever make a post and say ”do” when you mean “don’t”
i do enjoy the miasma that has descended upon software development these days.
there are a lot of things that can be done with new technology which wouldn’t feel so bad if not for the fact that the managerial salespeople and target audience are pretty much all psychotic.
there are a lot of things that can be done with new technology which wouldn’t feel so bad if not for the fact that the managerial salespeople and target audience are pretty much all psychotic.
January 10, 2026 at 5:59 AM
you ever make a post and say ”do” when you mean “don’t”
the vibes are so fucking bad, man.
they‘re bad not even because of any component inherent to the technology itself (not even the ethicality of the training data, imo!).
just everyone coked out of their mind gorging themselves on the seed corn of our industry.
they‘re bad not even because of any component inherent to the technology itself (not even the ethicality of the training data, imo!).
just everyone coked out of their mind gorging themselves on the seed corn of our industry.
January 10, 2026 at 5:52 AM
the vibes are so fucking bad, man.
they‘re bad not even because of any component inherent to the technology itself (not even the ethicality of the training data, imo!).
just everyone coked out of their mind gorging themselves on the seed corn of our industry.
they‘re bad not even because of any component inherent to the technology itself (not even the ethicality of the training data, imo!).
just everyone coked out of their mind gorging themselves on the seed corn of our industry.
i do enjoy the miasma that has descended upon software development these days.
there are a lot of things that can be done with new technology which wouldn’t feel so bad if not for the fact that the managerial salespeople and target audience are pretty much all psychotic.
there are a lot of things that can be done with new technology which wouldn’t feel so bad if not for the fact that the managerial salespeople and target audience are pretty much all psychotic.
January 10, 2026 at 5:46 AM
i do enjoy the miasma that has descended upon software development these days.
there are a lot of things that can be done with new technology which wouldn’t feel so bad if not for the fact that the managerial salespeople and target audience are pretty much all psychotic.
there are a lot of things that can be done with new technology which wouldn’t feel so bad if not for the fact that the managerial salespeople and target audience are pretty much all psychotic.
it sincerely helps that the conversation didn't start like the last blow up w/ Armin pretty much rolling up & saying "hey i'm back is everyone ready to admit i was right before"
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 AM
it sincerely helps that the conversation didn't start like the last blow up w/ Armin pretty much rolling up & saying "hey i'm back is everyone ready to admit i was right before"
utopia‘s good for a rant on vercel
January 10, 2026 at 2:42 AM
utopia‘s good for a rant on vercel
what level of IaC are you on? i feel like terraforming GKE or EKS isn’t rocket surgery.
January 10, 2026 at 2:40 AM
what level of IaC are you on? i feel like terraforming GKE or EKS isn’t rocket surgery.
also tbc “at some point on the launch cost curve“ is doing a /lot/ of work.
January 10, 2026 at 2:31 AM
also tbc “at some point on the launch cost curve“ is doing a /lot/ of work.
not quite just launch costs, you still need to do a bunch more R&D on cooling & shielding solar panels, but it moves the barometer from “physical impossibility“ to “logistically infeasible outside of a vanity project“
January 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
not quite just launch costs, you still need to do a bunch more R&D on cooling & shielding solar panels, but it moves the barometer from “physical impossibility“ to “logistically infeasible outside of a vanity project“
it’s unclear tbh; Moore’s law & general pace of improvement implies inference gets cheaper but also token consumption has been increasing from models so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
January 10, 2026 at 2:23 AM
it’s unclear tbh; Moore’s law & general pace of improvement implies inference gets cheaper but also token consumption has been increasing from models so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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the small handful of people who are actually using this stuff in a disciplined, thoughtful, and prosocial way are not the enemy. we will undoubtedly have to learn from them if we want to find ways for the human quest for meaning to survive into the future. that’s all i’ve got.
January 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM
the small handful of people who are actually using this stuff in a disciplined, thoughtful, and prosocial way are not the enemy. we will undoubtedly have to learn from them if we want to find ways for the human quest for meaning to survive into the future. that’s all i’ve got.
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…BUT, i think that deciding to react to these fears by moralizing through a callout post of specific individual open source authors who have used LLMs at least once to contribute to the public good isn’t helping anyone, and i don’t want to share an ideological position with the people behind it.
January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
…BUT, i think that deciding to react to these fears by moralizing through a callout post of specific individual open source authors who have used LLMs at least once to contribute to the public good isn’t helping anyone, and i don’t want to share an ideological position with the people behind it.
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i like writing code by hand because it makes me feel good, and i’m scared there won’t be opportunities to do that anymore. and i think the imminent crisis of meaning that occurs when you can just ask the computer to give you whatever you want will be disastrous for the human species…
January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
i like writing code by hand because it makes me feel good, and i’m scared there won’t be opportunities to do that anymore. and i think the imminent crisis of meaning that occurs when you can just ask the computer to give you whatever you want will be disastrous for the human species…
type of person who thinks nitrogen fixation is immoral because it enabled is industrial agriculture
January 9, 2026 at 6:07 PM
type of person who thinks nitrogen fixation is immoral because it enabled is industrial agriculture
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this is the main reason why you can't automate even scutwork-y software jobs away. like, it's a good gag, but this is also a serious description of why
one of the first jokes I heard abt it is “well I guess we’re all out of a job as long as the business can articulate a clear and unchanging set of requirements… so I’m feeling pretty good about job security”
January 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM
this is the main reason why you can't automate even scutwork-y software jobs away. like, it's a good gag, but this is also a serious description of why
eeeeehhhh yeah you could try one of the devstral quantizations and report back…? huggingface.co/unsloth/Devs...
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:29 PM
eeeeehhhh yeah you could try one of the devstral quantizations and report back…? huggingface.co/unsloth/Devs...
one option would be to rent time on a VPS or something which sucks a lot less these days tbqh in the sense that you can go pretty far in terms of confidently compute
January 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
one option would be to rent time on a VPS or something which sucks a lot less these days tbqh in the sense that you can go pretty far in terms of confidently compute