Ken Collins 🦾 ⛅️
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Ken Collins 🦾 ⛅️
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· Dec 31
Exploring Accelerated Compound AI Systems with SambaNova & Llama 3.3-70B
OpenAI o1 is approximately 30 times slower than GPT-4o. Similarly, the o1 mini version is around 16 times slower than GPT-4o mini.
Frontier models are getting slower! Yup, you heard that right. A few...
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oh... this is what I do. love the name. see also shifting what is regular every few years.
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 AM
oh... this is what I do. love the name. see also shifting what is regular every few years.
i think about this too much
February 6, 2026 at 12:18 AM
i think about this too much
it was only a matter of time that (human to human) mechanical turk style tasks led to an (AI to human) "meatspace layer" rentahuman.ai
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February 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
it was only a matter of time that (human to human) mechanical turk style tasks led to an (AI to human) "meatspace layer" rentahuman.ai
meanwhile dictation is killing me mistral.ai/news/voxtral...
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February 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
meanwhile dictation is killing me mistral.ai/news/voxtral...
Just did it here too.
February 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Just did it here too.
I don't drink soda... but this is why I have no concept of how long soda can live in your fridge once opened.
February 2, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I don't drink soda... but this is why I have no concept of how long soda can live in your fridge once opened.
drinking the worlds best rum and coke from an old candle jar
January 31, 2026 at 7:30 PM
drinking the worlds best rum and coke from an old candle jar
yup! just posted a photo. had to do it. the RCCR or CRRC or ... something else ...
January 31, 2026 at 7:22 PM
yup! just posted a photo. had to do it. the RCCR or CRRC or ... something else ...
I wonder what will happen if I mix Crown Royal with Royal Crown?
January 31, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I wonder what will happen if I mix Crown Royal with Royal Crown?
Love this still exists.
January 31, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Love this still exists.
jevons paradox all the way down.
January 31, 2026 at 1:45 PM
jevons paradox all the way down.
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Another sci-fi art legend leaves us. Goodbye Bob Layzell, Terran Trade Authority titan 04/05/1940-29/01/2026
January 29, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Another sci-fi art legend leaves us. Goodbye Bob Layzell, Terran Trade Authority titan 04/05/1940-29/01/2026
OK, sorry INBOX, I'm just going to start over. Sorry if you emailed me in the past 3 weeks.
January 29, 2026 at 9:04 PM
OK, sorry INBOX, I'm just going to start over. Sorry if you emailed me in the past 3 weeks.
cozy looking room too.
January 29, 2026 at 3:15 AM
cozy looking room too.
omg taylor, sorry to hear that. being home with power is the best. something tells me we are in for some snow and power loos this coming week too.
always good to have in-laws with a full house generator if that does happen and things get bad.
always good to have in-laws with a full house generator if that does happen and things get bad.
January 29, 2026 at 3:15 AM
omg taylor, sorry to hear that. being home with power is the best. something tells me we are in for some snow and power loos this coming week too.
always good to have in-laws with a full house generator if that does happen and things get bad.
always good to have in-laws with a full house generator if that does happen and things get bad.
Lunch today at Doumars, where sea gulls are mostly there to steel your fries. Today it was a pair of starlings that would take em from your hand after asking for one.
January 28, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Lunch today at Doumars, where sea gulls are mostly there to steel your fries. Today it was a pair of starlings that would take em from your hand after asking for one.
This is why I think those faux attacks on "his advisors" are BS too. We all know there is no morals or decency at the top.
i would personally love to see noem drag miller down with her
"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios.""
Anyone paying attentions - it's been President Miler calling the shots.
Now the vipers are going after each other. 🐍🐍🐍
Anyone paying attentions - it's been President Miler calling the shots.
Now the vipers are going after each other. 🐍🐍🐍
January 27, 2026 at 10:40 PM
This is why I think those faux attacks on "his advisors" are BS too. We all know there is no morals or decency at the top.
That and good APIs that could be easy tool usage if they made product sense.
What will likely happen is they will take their CMS data and implement a .md file format view to existing content and bypass fixing the HTML altogether.
What will likely happen is they will take their CMS data and implement a .md file format view to existing content and bypass fixing the HTML altogether.
January 26, 2026 at 6:55 PM
That and good APIs that could be easy tool usage if they made product sense.
What will likely happen is they will take their CMS data and implement a .md file format view to existing content and bypass fixing the HTML altogether.
What will likely happen is they will take their CMS data and implement a .md file format view to existing content and bypass fixing the HTML altogether.
🌌🧠 HAVE AI WRITE DOCS FOR AI
( in situ of getting IRL work done with equal or more rigor to the code that is being written... by AI )
( in situ of getting IRL work done with equal or more rigor to the code that is being written... by AI )
January 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM
🌌🧠 HAVE AI WRITE DOCS FOR AI
( in situ of getting IRL work done with equal or more rigor to the code that is being written... by AI )
( in situ of getting IRL work done with equal or more rigor to the code that is being written... by AI )
Thinking more about Steve's system, I think a lot of where things go wrong is when someone builds an AI system that is anthropomorphized. This is why I never liked Crew.
Instead, focus on the tools and that task. Let the orchestration loop be generalized.
Instead, focus on the tools and that task. Let the orchestration loop be generalized.
Beforehand, I want to share some thoughts along the way and digging into @maggieappleton.com work and Steve's posts. From Steve:
> Either way, it’s vibe coding if you didn’t write it by hand.
Maybe 6 months ago, but big disagree here. That debases a lot of the skills we are transition too.
> Either way, it’s vibe coding if you didn’t write it by hand.
Maybe 6 months ago, but big disagree here. That debases a lot of the skills we are transition too.
January 25, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Thinking more about Steve's system, I think a lot of where things go wrong is when someone builds an AI system that is anthropomorphized. This is why I never liked Crew.
Instead, focus on the tools and that task. Let the orchestration loop be generalized.
Instead, focus on the tools and that task. Let the orchestration loop be generalized.
So @maggieappleton.com post is perfect. I'm at the "Gas Town’s solution to this is make each agent session disposable by design"
It might freak people out if I mention I can get what I need out of each session in no more than 10 turns. Memory is a problem. Not one solved by forgetting either.
It might freak people out if I mention I can get what I need out of each session in no more than 10 turns. Memory is a problem. Not one solved by forgetting either.
January 25, 2026 at 2:15 PM
So @maggieappleton.com post is perfect. I'm at the "Gas Town’s solution to this is make each agent session disposable by design"
It might freak people out if I mention I can get what I need out of each session in no more than 10 turns. Memory is a problem. Not one solved by forgetting either.
It might freak people out if I mention I can get what I need out of each session in no more than 10 turns. Memory is a problem. Not one solved by forgetting either.
Now reading @maggieappleton.com article... this statement makes 100 sense to me.
> Gas Town is entirely vibecoded, hastily designed with off-the-cuff solutions, and inefficiently burning through thousands of dollars a month in API costs.
Yup, seems way over engineered.
> Gas Town is entirely vibecoded, hastily designed with off-the-cuff solutions, and inefficiently burning through thousands of dollars a month in API costs.
Yup, seems way over engineered.
January 25, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Now reading @maggieappleton.com article... this statement makes 100 sense to me.
> Gas Town is entirely vibecoded, hastily designed with off-the-cuff solutions, and inefficiently burning through thousands of dollars a month in API costs.
Yup, seems way over engineered.
> Gas Town is entirely vibecoded, hastily designed with off-the-cuff solutions, and inefficiently burning through thousands of dollars a month in API costs.
Yup, seems way over engineered.
OK, I see now. So Steve made a repo called Gas Town and I think it gets too far ahead of Claude Code CLI and how the Agent SDK works. I started a project about around the same concepts about 2 months earlier that
1. Much simpler.
2. Leverages Progressive Disclosure
1. Much simpler.
2. Leverages Progressive Disclosure
January 25, 2026 at 2:04 PM
OK, I see now. So Steve made a repo called Gas Town and I think it gets too far ahead of Claude Code CLI and how the Agent SDK works. I started a project about around the same concepts about 2 months earlier that
1. Much simpler.
2. Leverages Progressive Disclosure
1. Much simpler.
2. Leverages Progressive Disclosure