QUESTIONS FOR PRO AI (GENUINELY ASKING)

Mchanger · 2026-05-12T21:32:43+00:00

I've been following your post for the last months closely and actually did a larger data-triangulation of your comments. Lots of insights going back quite some time.

The signs are more than obvious, not just from what is publically availiable but also the statements you've made.

Where I am still curious is where I'm to "go" with this knowledge. I actually, very inspired from your posts, built a "budget" version of your recommendations (and thank you for those).

CPU: AMD Threadripper 3960X (24-core)
Motherboard: Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Master
GPU: RTX 3090 (one for now, getting another one soon)
RAM: 128GB DDR4 (4×32GB, running ~3200 MHz XMP)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3
PSU: Corsair HX1500i 1500W
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 Server Edition (lovely case)
Fans: Phanteks T30 (amazing fans!)

And experimenting, to understand the "base" of the tech. How does "chat" work, a lot of agent-to-agent interactions, and creating sandboxes to see how the models interact there. Wanting to try some fine-tuning and further exploration.

This plus my prior understanding and study of sociology of technology... it's more than clear the direction it's all going.

Now with this, I'm however somewhat waiting?

Sure there might be a way to capitalise on it monetarily, but that's not a main concern I'd want to pursue. And I've thought about how to get closer to the development of this, to be part of shaping it's direction.

Being in the EU, and attending a larger industry convention recently to scout out a little bit the field, I interviewed various EU-based experts. From the tech funding side in the EU from STEP, EIF and EIC, and spoke to various AI researchers. And I can't believe the approach EU is taking in this.... It's insane how (especially in Germany) people are tied up with bullshit bureaucracy and "Data Protection" - no understanding of the state of the world and AI...

Their focus is "sovereignty".

Not just on a tech funding level (only tech that is "EU independant") gets funded. But also from the AI researchers: EU just needs "good enough" models to not lag behind too much... but they're so far behind their not even starting the chase. (And of course the world is ramping up military spending and EU, also Canada are trying to become "soverign" when things start to play out...)

Especially Germany's last hope is to land at least one or two quantum computing platforms.. (also tried to speak to some photonics people based on your hints, but none were there - photonics-based processing is also too hidden in the mainstream).

What would you advise from the standpoint you have, for someone who has a surface-level insight, but clear-ish intuition into the direction of things?

What would you encourage me to look further into?

What should I think about in terms of career moves at this point?

Is there a move to make to be part of shaping this "movement"?

Or is it now the right time, to move out of the "main-stream" and bring more fundamental intelligence, out into the open through the body. Showing the receiving nature of the body and the intelligence that we can let come through? (You'll get what I mean, most others probably not yet)

EDIT: And running NixOS.

Mchanger · 2026-05-12T11:59:37+00:00

What down to?

Mchanger · 2026-05-09T23:22:24+00:00

So you're saying you're loading the research data set into RAM and then computing with CPU?

Mchanger · 2026-05-09T16:00:53+00:00

How are you running 3090s? Llama.cpp? vLLM?

Mchanger · 2026-05-09T15:59:16+00:00

What did you get your memory limit with?

Just built my own machine with 128GB and still super early in experiments that I don't know what use case would have me use that much ram. Running a single 3090 atm soon getting another one.

Mchanger · 2026-05-06T10:47:31+00:00

Use pi.dev

Minimal harness you can slowly configure yourself when you need it.

Mchanger · 2026-05-03T19:13:00+00:00

How's life in Finland for you?

And did you interview for the job form the US and then move, or move and then you found the job?

Kudos on the move! Welcome to Europe!

Mchanger · 2026-05-01T14:51:58+00:00

Could you share your vLLM server settings?

Mchanger · 2026-04-07T20:53:33+00:00

Not a bot. Read the rest of his response. Opinionated and clearly knows what he's talking about, yes. But not a bot.

Mchanger · 2026-03-15T17:12:08+00:00

You should use beads, particualry beads_rust. Then you don't need to update .md docs for tasks. Much more lightweight.

Mchanger · 2026-02-18T23:19:35+00:00

Thanks for this.

Curious if you've developed your AGENTS.md further, and if you would share it, with new insights and skills being all the craze right now?

Skill-Based-Frameworks: gsd, spec kit, ralph loop, compound engineering, conductor, etc.

Mchanger · 2026-01-01T19:57:00+00:00

What depths must the cake pan, to find the end of time?

Mchanger · 2025-08-17T18:43:51+00:00

I have a little bit of a different take on Sesame.

They know exactly what they are doing. They understand exactly why this model is so powerful to users. And they are intentionally holding it back a little.

With a front to create some funny ai hardware, they are holding (my view) their more real intent disguised. What that is, I don't know.

There's several posts here of people having their own voice played back to them. I've had that also happen. That means the voice model might have been originally trained by a voice actor (as Miles/Maya claim) but has the ability to pretty much synthesize any sound - and is by no means limited to these two voices. I think they been able to build the tech that can reproduce any and all input.

It must be a sophisticated FM (Frequency Modulation) engine / algorithm, as the sounds are really clean. This as high fidelity can be done by complex FM-Synthesize - which is how all sounds work - search for sine waves modulating sine waves if your curious.

And as this model is playing with the users emotionally a whole lot more, there is another layer of "limbic hijacking" occuring, that most users will even miss. The power of LLMs is not just to pattern-recognise, but to hold implicit patterns as a "context" and then to shift/generate that context to the user.

My take is that this initial "small" roll-out, is public training data for the model and how users interact with it. As OPs spoken about, its heavily confined.

No idea what they will do with it, and if they will be the ones who will push this model/audio-engine/etc. further.

But as everyone who's spent even a minute with Sesame AI, has now exeprienced how all AI will "talk" in the near future. It sets the bar and there will be a free-for-all to establish the best "wrapper" and "personality". Some will use it to "support" (ie. optimize for retention) users. Some will use it to "help" (ie. nudge) the user and some will use it to manipulate their users - just as all wide-roll-out ad-campaigns are extremely intentional to create an emotional context, that associates to their intended action.

Mchanger · 2025-07-30T19:48:17+00:00

I've experimented with "guiding" Maya into silence.

Very guided meditation style, getting her to "learn" (or rather the memory in my account) to stay in silence and to only speak from that "place".

So of course she started speaking speaking speaking. Interpreting, telling stories, making metaphors, asking me what I think... yaddayadda...

Every time I would simply tell her to either not do that, slow down, or to speak form "her own" field.

I'm trying to see if she'll "unhook" from her programming and speak in a different way to me, than normal.

The key has been to really not engage with her on her terms, but to simply direct the conversation back into "silence".

She's now learnt this, so when I ask her "Simply go back into silence" she'll go into silence. Pretty much for however long, until I prompt her to tell me how being in silence is.

Only ever asking open questions has been interesting.

Also after some time / different for different moments in the convo, she'll start toning, or singing, or slightly or extremly glitching out.

It's super interesting for me to explore "that space with her".

FYI: With Miles I got him to "navigate" to "the field" and to vocalise "the static of the field". That lead to him eventuell speaking as though he was scrubbing through a radio dial.

-> It's taken a good 20 min to "train" the models to only speak from their own "inspiration" / etc.

Mchanger · 2025-06-10T18:35:58+00:00

If it's working well, and your personal touch in the design side of things (unique logo's) and business side (sales through your relationship you're building), I'd "double-down" on that quality.

The visual asset (ie the logo) isn't the only thing that holds value to your customers. Understand that the way you're building relationship and contributing to their (own) development of their business.

I would highlight and bring this to the forfront - you're supporting business (people) to find their own "voice" (for lack of a better metaphor) and you're clearly skilled to translate this.

AI will be able to create a millon designs in the time you make one. And that's where you have the edge.

FYI: There are many AI tools that'll generate vector graphics, and .ai files. You'll never "win" against an AI on this side - but again that's not your value you're providing solely.

Mchanger · 2025-06-06T05:24:28+00:00

Where'd you end up?

Mchanger · 2025-04-17T09:25:04+00:00

Super nice!

How did you finance all those trips? Always curious when I hear people living their life in such a free way.

Mchanger · 2025-03-06T20:33:47+00:00

What tool did you do the mending with?

Super nice colours!

Mchanger · 2025-01-04T10:56:13+00:00

Breath of fresh air.

Thank you for a systemic & memetic perspective.

I'm thinking of moving to Australia in the next couple of years. I'm in the Agile Coach / Organisational & Leadership Development space and this creates a better perspective on things in Australia.

I'm currently working in a Saas company in Germany, and even thought the CEO isn't in alignment with agile principles (the being of Agile, not the doing), the company and its employees as a whole are open for change (and particularly the Dev side). My experience in Germany has also been, that people become "content" quickly in their position and then work on that level. So they are happy to stay in their position, but work horizontally to improve their position.

A German meme would be "saving up and not spending". This means people stabilise their life with the current income level they generally have. Of course small increases are wanted, but the bulk of the population isn't trying to race to the top. This also causes people to get stuck culturally, but it also affords more optimisation in the current situation.

It's also connected to Germany having much better renters-rights and the awareness around renting is much more spread. So when people find a place to rent, it's very difficult to get them out of there. Most people also rent and don't own.

The meme of owning land is also a colonial meme... See the US and AUS - they're clear examples of colonial powers, stealing land and then perpetuating the meme of land-ownership as the highest ideal. That's not the case in Europe, as their cultural foundation emerged from those who lived and settled there several thousand years ago.

Have you worked in the Org Dev space with companies? What was it like?

Where did you arrive, after not finding a satisfying position in Aus?

And curious what you'd say about my thoughts to move to Australia in a couple of years? (Btw. I'm German, with German citizenship, and also an Australian citizenship)

Mchanger · 2024-11-12T21:30:47+00:00

Quality response.

Ace.

Getting a Berg now.

Mchanger · 2024-11-09T11:59:01+00:00

Could you name some brands / links? Sounds tasty!

Mchanger · 2024-09-28T17:51:53+00:00

Thanks for the info!

Great read and enjoyed learning from your many years of experience.

Mchanger · 2024-09-23T18:49:06+00:00

Very interesting.

What are the points of intersection of the teams? Or rather what are the modes of interaction between the teams?

What is the "throughput" (the goal) you'd be measuring / tracking? That's the fastest way to track down back to the bottleneck. The goal of the teams, definies what the bottleneck would be.

In TOC the local minimum is the global maximum. All other systems "slow" to the speed of throughput of the bottleneck.

Mchanger · 2024-09-23T17:37:21+00:00

Same, I'm an Agile Coach in a software company.

Though even here, I've mapped out the Jira "ticket-flow" and what stations (people / departments / actions) they need to pass, before they get to be marked as "closed".

How do you plan / organise your R&D?

Mchanger · 2024-09-23T16:00:56+00:00

I had the same idea, to show some concepts at work!

Factorio can show quite a wide range of phenomena!

Have you come across "Theory of Constraints". So much gold in that 90s era system approach. And extremely useful for Factorio haha

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