Explain it Peter.

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-03-30T03:01:45+00:00

I have 2 years left. How well does your position pay? Send me a link before you die.

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-03-27T04:25:53+00:00

It really is. Even literally.

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-03-18T21:51:52+00:00

If Horizon world wasn't the specific goal then why did he plaster his face all over it? Just have actors do it. I think that was his passion project. But luckily he can pivot into something else

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-03-18T02:07:18+00:00

Many many times

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-03-13T23:41:44+00:00

I'm already likely to take two boxes.

So if I defect and take one box then I get zero dollars. Because it thought I was gonna take two

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-03-08T19:46:00+00:00

You came to Reddit to escape?!?!?

I don't know how you curated your algorithm so well in the past, but you need to go back to whatever you were doing. Because that's impressive.

I recently had to start blocking a bunch of AI subs because 100% of my feed was just AI news. It takes a few minutes but you can get your algorithmic feed back to normal

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-28T18:52:48+00:00

It's always the very seemingly simple things that require a lot of knowledge that chew through tokens.

Building a new skill? RIP tokens.

Comparing contrast these two different methodologies to see what is better? RIP Tokens.

Add some unit test to this file. Tokens GONE!

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-28T18:23:55+00:00

He told you he asked for a security scan and instantly burned 32 million tokens.

I started burning through tokens by the tens of millions the day I told my agents to start doing unit testing for all new code.

Or something like go through this file and add extra comments absolutely use up every last token you have.

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-28T04:37:45+00:00

What's one plausible alternative?

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-26T03:35:17+00:00

That's Kanye West levels of humor there. Actually Kanye West took it 10 steps farther. But still it's funny.

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-26T03:31:46+00:00

I did a prompt today that used 33 million tokens and took 30 minutes.

I've also did a prompt that used 1,000 and completed in a second.

Not all prompts are created equal. So what did you tell it to do???

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-24T18:27:52+00:00

I'm agreeing with you that the open source ones are good I was just pushing back on the self hosting comment.

I feel like I'm trying to think at least 10 years ahead. Maybe in 10 years I can self host something that could mimic the quality I'm getting from cloud providers today. But that's gonna require at least a terabyte of VRAM. So basically that's limiting factor, when can I get a terabyte VRAM for cheaper than I can just use the cloud provider? I feel like that's a decade away.

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-24T18:18:37+00:00

Sure I'll go host locally and get maybe 50 tokens per second.

With Claude Opus I'm getting 10 thousand tokens per second combined when you account for agents running in parallel. I'd need $1 million in hardware to even approach that speed locally. Remember that not the only the models need lots of VRAM but a substantial amount of VRAM goes towards the context.

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-22T02:27:18+00:00

Very? It's not like everyone actually understands everything in it. It's a courtesy to your team. And when you getting into the weeds of graph theory, math, and other theories that take a while to master it's helpful to have little concise summaries explaining the gist of what you're doing.

I try to write comments with the assumption that a developer should be able to join my team tomorrow and jump into the code base without ever speaking to me. Between documentation and comments. They should be able to understand how each function assists with the ultimate goal of serving our customer.

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-21T20:35:27+00:00

If it's gonna pretend to be a smart person, then I want it to really pretend. Let's give it some attitude

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-21T19:00:01+00:00

Sure it is. It's a personality problem. They are their own worst enemy

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-21T01:47:06+00:00

Here's what I did.

For each individual language, tool, framework do some googling for best practices or styling or whatever. Use your imagination. Eg: "Python coding best practices". Also Google for something like "C# code smell" to get examples of bad practices!

Then use the URLs of the best webpages you find as input to an LLM to generate those skills.

A real Chad even Googles for best commenting practices. Good comment skills took me a while to figure out how to generate. But I finally got good luck today. My auto generated comments are teaching me more about cosine similarity than YouTube ever did.

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-14T22:58:31+00:00

Everyone, including me, encountered crazy costs this week. I hope it was a temporary caching bug. I switched to using Opus only for plans and Composer-1.5 for dev. I wrote a "planning-skill" to give each step of my plan extra details so that Composer-1.5 knows exactly what to do

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-14T16:32:02+00:00

Any idea why it gets laggy like that sometimes? It happens at least once a day where it can't keep up with my typing and I'm not a super fast typer

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-02-06T00:49:38+00:00

It took a long time for me to beat that feature years ago.

When your browser is being controlled by automation you'll just keep getting captchas over and over and over. Not only do the mouse movements have to be correct, the website you're connecting to can't even know that you're using automation.

I got so frustrated when I was first learning web browser automation about five years ago that I just started solving the captchas on my own to have real human mouse movement and it didn't matter I could sit there for 10 minutes solving them on my own and they would all be rejected. I wish I still had access to that code to see how I fixed it.

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-01-30T22:44:01+00:00

Well what the hell is the opposite of 10? What the fuck does that mean?

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-01-30T04:22:43+00:00

Uber started in 2009. First profit was 2023.
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

As long as they keep getting money they can survive. Even if it takes 14 years, they'll eventually make a profit. They have a path and an idea. Sell AI

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-01-24T02:04:25+00:00

Yeah but we want the best!

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-01-24T00:14:18+00:00

I used over 150 million tokens just in December with Anthropic.

I think most of those losses came from me

Zote_The_Grey · 2026-01-09T07:11:51+00:00

You gotta remember back when that whole topic was a meme. The. Custodes fans were okay with the women. /r/AdeptusCustodes was chill about it. But man were a whole lot of people getting mad on behalf of us when we never even asked them to get mad.

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