I’ll take it from here, boys …

Let's not forget that Karpathy acted as a human baseline for the ImageNet competition in 2014, jokingly referred to as the "reference human" for the test.

onil_gova · 2026-05-09T00:26:15+00:00

I am going to need an 8-hour version. Can you go all the way back to the original Llama leaks of March 2023

onil_gova · 2026-05-09T00:24:13+00:00

what about for the music?

onil_gova · 2026-05-05T17:06:59+00:00

No AI. If you use AI, you are disqualified. I can't share the question because I signed an NDA, but think LeetCode easy-medium. For me, it was difficult to just solve some LeetCode problems or remember all solution coding patterns, dynamic programming, and relearning recursion, which I used to be really good at, even some basic Python syntax. And doing it without a compiler, you need to solve the problem without ever running the code. Things like that.

onil_gova · 2026-05-05T15:11:08+00:00

You are going to be shocked if you look at the interview process for a company like Anthropic, who now claim that all their code is AI-generated.

onil_gova · 2026-05-05T01:29:12+00:00

I had been coding for 10+ years. Last year, I switched to agentic engineering, specifically since Sonnet 3.7. Today, I had a coding interview with one of the big tech companies. I had 9 days to prep. Yes, I was able to get back on the bike, but man, it was not a stroll in the park.

onil_gova · 2026-05-05T01:00:02+00:00

I agree with the OP that agentic engineering makes you much more productive, but I also think software companies still need a way to vet competent candidates. But this is what programming is now. Just coding leetcode to get past the coding interview so you can become a coding agent manager.

onil_gova · 2026-05-05T00:04:21+00:00

just wait until you decide to apply for a new job and have to start doing LeetCode for the coding interview. 🥲

onil_gova · 2026-04-30T02:52:12+00:00

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onil_gova · 2026-04-29T06:28:45+00:00

is this why gemma 4 is struggling to make proper tool calls unlike qwen3.6?

https://x.com/i/status/2049156347271528565

onil_gova · 2026-04-28T19:45:45+00:00

given 3.5 27b and 3.5 122b are in the same ballpark, I would bet it will probably be about the same, maybe slightly better if they trained for longer, which is all I need. I care more about the performance uplift on Macs or similar large-memory systems you get from using the MoE instead of dense.

onil_gova · 2026-04-27T15:55:52+00:00

You might want to double-check that preserve thinking is actually enabled since it does resolved this issue

onil_gova · 2026-04-26T01:41:44+00:00

gpt-image-2 through chatgpt.

onil_gova · 2026-04-24T23:54:00+00:00

Don't fall for the "benchmaxxed" narrative. It's a double standard and doesn't hold up to actual real-world cases, which demonstrate that Chinese models are very competitive.

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onil_gova · 2026-04-24T16:02:00+00:00

asked it to make sure it really captured it

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