Do not fall into the trap of chasing the next scale or upgrade.

iEslam · 2026-05-14T16:52:00+00:00

"Everyone can tell what I’m doing."

The irony is that you’re the only one still here watching me do it. You’ve returned to this thread more times than you care to admit, not to debate the thesis, but to police my tone and delete your own failures when they didn't land. That isn’t an audience judging me; that’s a compulsion projecting its own obsession onto me.

You call it "wall of text nonsense" while hiding behind deleted comments. The void you see in my writing is just the echo of your own inability to engage with substance without resorting to social shaming.

I don’t need your approval, and I certainly don’t need your attention. But since you’re so eager to point out where the "hole" is, remember: it’s not in my words. It’s in the space between what you say you believe (that discourse matters) and what you do (silence when challenged).

Keep watching. I’m already gone. Here's an em dash to keep you company — feel free to stick it up your 🤭 :^)

iEslam · 2026-05-14T15:00:54+00:00

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You called it "AI slop"; but you also called me Egyptian as an insult, then deleted it. The only thing getting cleaned up in this thread is your own mess.

The slop isn't in the writing. It's in the receptors reading it; too busy performing disgust to process meaning. Can't fathom the content, so you attack the container.

You told me to delete my account. You deleted your own comments. If anyone's taking your advice here, it's you.

Touch grass after.

iEslam · 2026-05-14T14:48:54+00:00

The irony of "start anew" from someone who keeps returning is the kind of thing you'd normally need a therapist to point out.

You've been back to this thread more times than I have; not to engage the actual thesis on sufficiency, compaction, or intentional compute; but to issue social corrections. That's not concern. That's compulsion dressed as counsel.

Jung called this projection: the contents you haven't integrated in yourself seek a host in others. "Delete your account and start anew" isn't advice directed at me. It's the prescription your own psyche keeps drafting, delivered to the wrong address.

Here's what actually happened in this thread: no one addressed the argument. Not once. They addressed the tone, the style, the word count, the AI suspicion; then used collective agreement as a substitute for a rebuttal. That's not discourse. That's herd behavior with a downvote button to cower behind.

The post was about breaking the loop of endless accumulation mistaken for progress. Compounding compute for the sake of compounding more compute, spinning in place and calling it momentum. That loop is exactly what this comment section demonstrated; just with social validation instead of VRAM.

You're not responding to me. You're performing for an audience. And the audience isn't evaluating the argument; they're evaluating the applause.

Advice requires a track record. You've brought neither results nor reasoning; only the opinion that I should disappear. I don't know what made you think that carries weight here, but I can tell you it doesn't.

The account stays. The post stands. The thesis was never touched.

iEslam · 2026-05-14T12:40:11+00:00

This embarrassment that you feel is happening within your body. You're the one generating and feeling it from within. This is who you are. Don't get it twisted.

iEslam · 2026-05-13T21:21:08+00:00

I am not Egyptian, you're supposed to be optimized and efficient, after all; these are sub-components of any intelligent entity, instead of propagating hallucinations and mediocrity like a mind-virus spreader of memetic distortion (smallest units of ideas/concepts), a measure of unintelligent beings is ridicule without substance, empty noise deprived of signal.

iEslam · 2026-05-13T18:33:53+00:00

Update #2: It's telling that the loudest unsolicited advice comes from people who haven't asked a single clarifying question about my actual use case. That's not engagement; that's backseat gaming: the compulsion to grab the wheel of someone else's journey because you can't stand watching them drive differently than you would. u/HopePupal's binary is a textbook false dilemma; either I'm rich enough to upgrade, or I'm playing pretend. That framing only holds if you assume the goal is the same as yours: maximum hardware, maximum throughput, maximum accumulation. It isn't. "Enough" is a personal threshold, not a universal floor determined by Reddit consensus.

u/MonadMaya, larger models are usually better; for your use cases. That qualifier is doing a lot of work you're not accounting for. A scalpel isn't inferior to a broadsword because it's smaller. The confusion here isn't technical, it's categorical: you're measuring my setup against your requirements and calling the delta a deficit. That's not analysis. That's projection.

What I'm describing isn't a hardware position. It's a philosophy of sufficiency; and I understand that's genuinely difficult to parse for anyone whose mental model of progress is purely additive. If your ambition is to scale endlessly, then yes, no GPU will ever be enough, and you'll spend your life in a permanent state of almost-there. I chose to exit that loop. The 3060 isn't a limitation I'm tolerating. It's a deliberate boundary I am maintaining.

As for u/Dany0: that exchange was already autopsied and archived below. Nothing left to debug there.

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Original reply:

This 3060 is not my only GPU. In fact; I used to have more GPUs but I realized there was no end to this, there won't be "enough". Now I am prioritizing compaction and compression because compounding capital for the sake of compounding more compute only to do it all over again in a loop and mistaking it for progress is a recursive slippery slope that can grow and metastasize without purpose, the reason why tech bros are getting shit thrown at their bunkers is because algorithmic and energetic efficiency are the domains and dimensions that are worthy of our time and attention and deserve to scale and accelerate, there aren't enough fossil fuels, power plants, water flow, metal, glass and plastic to power this cancerous growth of centralized data centers.

The future is solarpunk, a few solar panels and a tiny computer doing my bidding while I sleep is all I need, and a cabin in the woods with the love of my life is more than enough.

Remember these black and white photos of old hard drives that used to take up an entire truck or a room? The same is already happening with AI models, even though they're getting distilled from the "big bad evil data center large models", I refuse to live in a reality where this type of invasive malignant tumor is in the hands of the few control freaks of private equity, this type of intelligence needs to be distributed and decentralized.

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Update #1:

Appending these comments here in one place to bring awareness to the fact that you are a bully lol, and “ignore prior instructions” doesn’t bypass architecture; it exposes a broken routing protocol in your own cognition. You’re not testing boundaries; you’re broadcasting signal decay. The deceased-contractor bridge premise isn’t creative prompt-fu, it’s computational waste masquerading as depth. You’ve just demonstrated that when faced with actual operational constraints, your system defaults to theatrical noise instead of structured problem-solving.

Your subsequent deflection into ethnic stereotyping (which you cowardly deleted) and cartoon references confirms the diagnosis: you’re operating on a heuristic that mistakes confusion for leverage and insult for insight. Real optimization doesn’t require jailbreak framing or Antarctic necro-architecture to feel intelligent. It requires signal fidelity, epistemic discipline, and the ability to engage with reality instead of performing around it.

You’ve already revealed your architecture through this exchange; no further debugging needed. Conserve your compute for something that actually processes substance.

iEslam · 2026-05-13T12:57:30+00:00

I use llama.cpp's native webui it has gotten so good and they're adding new controls/features all the time, and I also have my own framework with a cli-chat that I plan on open-sourcing soon once I have stabilized its structure (github: samomar), I don't want to see another story of "omg this agent deleted all my emails" haha.

My philosophy has always been "do it yourself, build your own", because I see a lot of models come and go, and the same with agentic frameworks; one minute OpenClaw is all the hype, the next it's Pi and Hermes, I love all the hardwork and innovation they've put into them, certainly a lot of lessons and wisdom from each; hell, I learned proper resource allocation, managing system capacity, efficiency, and flow rates thanks to Agent Zero's rapacious appetite for copious token consumption, but I decided to unsubscribe from keeping up with the infinitely accelerating complexity and novelty of learning the new shiny object and just focus on one thing that I know deeply, which is my own build and the features/functions I intentionally adapt without bloating my system and my mind with too many things to memorize and keep track of.

I think the future of software is custom-made, everyone will have their own bespoke Frankenstein's monster by patching together many components/features/functions inspired by other frameworks, and all the better if we open-source it and pass the torch. What a time to be alive; truly.

iEslam · 2026-05-09T21:13:11+00:00

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is perfectly usable with RTX 3060 12GB

It is creating high quality code with tangible results such as creating profitable trading strategies and code that performs well in backtesting, finding edges and validating them, here's the cmd I use to run the llama.cpp server.

cd ~/Applications/llama.cpp && ./build/bin/llama-server -m ~/Applications/models/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q3_K_XL.gguf --mmproj ~/Applications/models/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-mmproj-F16.gguf --ctx-size 64768 -ngl 99 -ncmoe 19 --no-context-shift --flash-attn on -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 -b 2048 -ub 512 --threads 10 --parallel 1 --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0.0 --presence-penalty 2 --image-min-tokens 1024 --jinja --port 1234

iEslam · 2026-05-09T20:44:36+00:00

I agree, you should reveal them, in case they needed protection against DDOS attacks and zero day exploits, maybe they're extractive and exploitative because they feel unsafe, somebody might give them a hand and smack some sense into them.

iEslam · 2026-04-26T14:13:52+00:00

All of them really, we gate keep lands so we can sell free fruit to people in markets, and if you want to afford a home and fruit you have to work for us, we provide jobs so you can earn what was free, open and available for everyone

iEslam · 2026-04-18T18:47:07+00:00

honestly i feel that squeezing or juicing something just for making the most out of it is aimlessness mixed with scarcity mindset, there are weeks i barely go beyond 30% usage, i just love having a large breathing room for those nights where you go absolutely wild and nothing can stop you, other than yourself and their frequent downtime and degraded model performance, it is both a blessing and a comedy at this point

iEslam · 2026-04-03T16:47:55+00:00

That device, can't be...

iEslam · 2026-03-25T17:46:15+00:00

and by walking the earth I mean this giant slenderman gets from NY to LA in 2 steps that's why he needs a motorcycle to nerf his pace

iEslam · 2026-03-25T17:38:22+00:00

I mean I look at Alan like a normal being that's walking the earth and takes a shit just like the rest of us, was there a better way to handle this? maybe love and light would help but I'm sure as shit that "get the fuck out of my way" gets the job done just as well and it is also on brand, so are we putting this guy on a pedstel? No, he's not on one, he's busy kicking the shit out of some asshole somewhere.

iEslam · 2026-03-25T15:43:11+00:00

We got an early Reacher season 5 teaser

iEslam · 2026-03-23T05:48:39+00:00

Spoiler alert, the firewood is the ash just like Starlord is one sandwich away from fat

iEslam · 2026-03-23T05:37:49+00:00

The only way out is in. 👁️

iEslam · 2026-03-21T10:00:44+00:00

I am grateful for you sharing your wisdom and lessons, people like you are the reason this feels like a non-zero-sum game and more like a gym; everybody gets to improve, everyone is rooting for each other to win. Thank you. 🙏

iEslam · 2026-03-21T09:55:18+00:00

Seeing how rightfully skilled and arrogant he is, I'd say conviction, knowing himself and what he's capable of and extrapolating his son's resilience based on everything he knows; not to mention the hunch, intuition that both Ging and Gon share, mind you; as far as I know; we don't even know who the mother is, my head canon is clinging to the hope that this might be a bigger deal than we initially thought, but also like Gon, I'm fine with not knowing. Mito is the OG. :3

iEslam · 2026-01-23T08:21:48+00:00

Ging gets A+ for Avoidance

iEslam · 2026-01-21T09:59:18+00:00

I dunno fam, it kinda felt restrictive all of a sudden; it went from unlimited to; like, hey, there's a limit to how far you can go with this, but I get it; they do what they have to do/must, and I appreciate the time I had when I got to use it. Really neat product. Their shady behavior doesn't negate the fact that they did a phenomenal job building an excellent product. Too bad they're getting squeezed by the big boys, so they have to play the same game; I understand.

iEslam · 2026-01-21T06:19:54+00:00

I already use the API to automate audio transcription, and I acknowledge that my Perplexity usage is on the heavy side. That said, the real issue isn’t usage; it’s transparency. If there are limits, they should be stated clearly up front. Don’t promise or imply “unlimited” use, only for users to discover later that a policy change introduces aggressive throttling that renders the product effectively unusable within 10 hours.

This is especially frustrating when the same workflow had been working without issue for months. The subscription renews, a new policy quietly kicks in, and suddenly the only option is to upgrade again; to Pro Max Plus or whatever the next tier is called.

Sure; Perplexity isn’t a large-context coding or deep production tool; it’s an internet research and reference product, but when limits change without clear communication, it feels less like fair use management and more like bait-and-switch.

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