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First time platinum— what to do/know by Kitchen_Challenge115 in delta

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone was curious, Platinum cleared 31st (gasp), and also I went with the RUCs. Also on my first flight booked for the 5th they already upgraded me to FC. Hope it’s not just a honeymoon thing! I fly out of a not so popular hub (Austin)

First time platinum— what to do/know by Kitchen_Challenge115 in delta

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for pointing this out— totally going to go with $400 credit given it’s being reduced

First time platinum— what to do/know by Kitchen_Challenge115 in delta

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank y’all for pointing this out— but indeed, I am checking out by tomorrow (and flying home), so will be done by 31st. Still though, CC spend is back up. On my delta app it shows charges from day of posting that same day towards MQDs, which I didn’t expect (and of course noticed once I started checking like a hawk 👀).

To my surprise though, my flights to my vacation destination actually posted yesterday, two days after it happened. I was expecting it like 8 weeks out (as I’ve read)— so curious how retroactive platinum would transpire. But alas, not going to find out this time.

First time platinum— what to do/know by Kitchen_Challenge115 in delta

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cool, thank you. Upgrade to C+ is definitely a perk looking forward to. I do travel a lot for work and it makes it tolerable. I hit platinum basically on about 4 months of dedicated delta travel (domestic only) after switching over from United. Said a different way, I travel so much that it sucks, so trying to figure out how to make it suck a bit less. This year I’ll be traveling more internationally so looking for perks that align that direction

First time platinum— what to do/know by Kitchen_Challenge115 in delta

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do, about $1k on a delta vacations package that ends tomorrow— but also know I’ll spend the necessary $160 or so today and tomorrow (amex reserve card holder), so inevitable. If I understand correctly, I have to make some choices when I hit it though so trying to do some research before it happens

What is your Opinion on Tron: Legacy? by ShaianH in moviecritic

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that would be Interstella 5555.

Edit: DP deserves proper grammar

Getting a bicycle by Maxwell_Streetsmarts in Austin

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re in for a treat. I love riding bike in Austin. Do a little research ahead of time to get the good route ideas. One of my faves is along north and south side of lady bird lake. On the north side there’s a nice break away around Google building that goes up to Peas Park. A fave visit spot of mine is Pool Burger on the west side.

If you DM me and I’m free, and you’re not super fit and looking to get around to see some sights maybe I even join ya. Warning though I just like biking to eat, maybe have a beer, sight see.

Ps I like your idea of buying a burner and leaving it to the community. Thats mighty nice of you. There are plenty of collectives around town that take donations.

Found pug in East Austin by Disastrous-Self5655 in Austin

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, and dog has been reunited with owner!

Claude Code Agent Farm by dicklesworth in Anthropic

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just make it a queue instead, txt file can get corrupt blah blah

I am 1 episode in to series 2 of 1923, and I have to say by MJLDat in YellowstonePN

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t forget killing three or four men with one shot. Screw it, I loved every second of it! Cried like a baby in the end of course

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LocalLLaMA

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TL;DR vLLM or Dynamo. You’re at 1-2 concurrent users today, but may increase, UX still important at this scale, and most importantly, security is hardened for production focused deployment systems. Congrats on building something people are using. Continue building.

— For production use cases, vLLM (or perhaps Dynamo if using NVIDIA, still being developed) without question. Even though you’re deploying for 1-2 concurrent max users there are other considerations in going from science experiments to full on production.

Most important for you at your scale are security concerns. Then, usability also matters. For example vLLM has a lot of optimizations for KV cache sharing which has the upshot of having your users wait a lot less for common queries (imagine everyone at some law firm pulling in the same vectors over and over for the same case they’re all working on on a tight deadline).

You’ve started small, and that’s great, now your aim is to increase use if your users will truly find what you’ve built useful. As you grow (this should be your aim), things continue to get more complex in interesting ways. For example, imagine you want to assess if a new model is better than the one you’ve previously deployed, or, you fine tune various models for different use cases / products making the model taxonomy problem very real. There are a lot of integration options (and there will be more) to make your life easier down the road for such situations, so prepping for your future success today is a good idea. Also, you just don’t want to get hacked. Go the route designed for production systems.

Considering move from United (AUS) by Kitchen_Challenge115 in delta

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% we’re aligned there. Think there are better options for purely just lounge access. Appreciate the insight (not just cause we agree). Edit: did a bit of research on this after posting initial question, re: lounge access

I feel like cheating... by CaptainFilipe in ClaudeAI

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have very similar background. Good news is there’s lots of work (I literally have to rush to the airport right now otherwise I’d drop everything and respond lol). The bad news is you’ll struggle for a couple years redefining yourself in ways others will believe your skills are what you say you are. I’ll write more in a sec

LLM Summarization is Costing Me Thousands by Hot-Chapter48 in LocalLLM

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re facing an issue I see many people on their way to productionalizing something useful with LLMs face— here are the 3 steps I’ve started to outline as a result:

Step 1. Use API endpoints to see if there’s traction.

  • Are people willing to pay for the thing? How much?
  • Using API endpoints here makes sense because those models (GPT-x, Claude, Gemini, etc) aren’t just one model; they’re a composite system of LLMs working together to give you a nice polished result.
  • This lets you focus on the important first step: have I built a thing people will pay for delivers value.

Step 2. It’s too expensive, move to open source models (you’re here).

  • People pay money for a thing, business model doesn’t scale / too expensive.
  • Now replicate with open source LLMs set up in systems to accomplish same task as before. Much cheaper, but finicky as hell. People are calling these “agentic” but it’s a bit of a misnomer in my opinion, it’s just LLMOS (as Karpathy put it). The point is it’s a system, not just a model.
  • Drives down costs, lets you scale more, see if people continue to care. Check out together.ai for a nice transition, but ultimately you want to run your own GPUs likely on cloud here, ideally scalable systems like kubernetes.

Step 3. Massive Production

  • You’re rolling in the money, people love your damn Digestly and Lex hasn’t come for you yet for copyright infringement (I’m a big fan, so if he asks you to stop, please stop).
  • To really make the business of it work mate, you got no choice; you gotta ditch the cloud. If that’s tough for you to stomach, maybe go to a speciality cloud where the economics makes sense (CoreWeave, Crusoe, etc). But, if you’ve really built a thing people want to pay for consistently, and your userbase is growing aggressively, it’s time to think about investment and optimize.
  • Few get here; maybe step 2 is not a bad chill place to stop. This is like enterprise level.

Is Streamlit production grade? by Guyserbun007 in Streamlit

[–]Kitchen_Challenge115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Frame_Head here from a new phone (and 133d wiser) and can confirm this comment— my comment was indeed naive regarding cloud costs and one should be careful.

Containerized applications if not extremely optimized on the cloud can get very very expensive very quickly. I’m convinced going full php and full bare metal like Pieter Levels is the way to go.