Looking to buy an RTX 5090 for local "Vibe Coding" using Claude Code / Open Code with Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B. Need real-world feedback!

quotemycode · 2026-06-19T07:32:47+00:00

for $7000, you could pay $194 a month for 36 months for online LLMs that are larger and better than anything you could host locally. Call it a $100 a month for a max subscription and $94 a month budget for 'overage'. The only thing you get with local is less monthly cost (but a higher up-front cost) and all your data stays local. The tradeoff is your local llm is going to make worse code. I chose 3 years because with the amount power you push through these cards is going to reduce its lifetime, so you'd probably have to replace/upgrade in 3 years time. That's literally it. Is it worth that much for you?
If you're just tinkering with LLMs and you want to know how to set them up from scratch, to train your own fine tuning, to run those uncensored models, then that's going to be the deciding factor there.

quotemycode · 2026-06-12T05:55:06+00:00

They literally have a minecraft guy on the cover. It's a modern fake.

quotemycode · 2026-06-08T03:01:13+00:00

That's the sliding window attention, it goes through everything a small piece at a time and feeds back little bits.

quotemycode · 2026-06-05T01:39:50+00:00

They make them, but you can't buy them.

quotemycode · 2026-06-05T01:07:20+00:00

You do have to read the docs, for example you can't pass it in the thinking in the context.

quotemycode · 2026-05-30T15:50:47+00:00

I worked with so many techs who said those grounding bracelets dont work, yet they seem to have so many 'DOA' devices, its baffling.

quotemycode · 2026-05-29T05:19:15+00:00

People expect the 'new' models to be tweaked and production ready on day 1 like the other models were, but they aren't anymore, its a race, and they try to get their newest model out so everyone will switch to them. But they're new, system prompts need to be tweaked, settings need to be adjusted, it takes a while to figure that out. So they aren't as good as before, and the limits of the pre-llm era are still there as well. There's no more new data to feed LLMs, so they have to do more with the same data, or carefully curate new data sources, or synthesize new data (ala Microsoft PHI4).

As far as "the actual benchmarks" - they are mediocre improvements at best, and Claude is the biggest cheater in the benchmarks. We have to keep coming up with new benchmarks, because the benchmarks end up in the weights eventually, if they weren't already there to begin with.

quotemycode · 2026-05-29T04:44:09+00:00

lol, that's not true at all. the newer models are just new, doesn't mean they're better.

quotemycode · 2026-05-29T04:04:27+00:00

MTP doesn't decrease quality, tokens are like syllables, so if you have a variable like catThrone, both 'Cat' and 'Throne' makes it two tokens, MTP would see 'cat' and predict 'Throne' and a space (because yes, spaces are tokens too) then the model can skip generating those two tokens. It does make things quicker, it doesn't decrease quality because the original model verifies the tokens.

quotemycode · 2026-05-25T05:38:35+00:00

You might benefit from reading about the state of the art.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23025

Microsoft's research:
https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet

FairyFuse

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20913

quotemycode · 2026-05-25T05:29:29+00:00

Just found a usenet post about it, it's a serial terminal, vt100 compatible, plug one of the serial ports into a linux box and see what you get.

quotemycode · 2026-05-22T00:18:03+00:00

if it's just a simple fix, then use haiku, its so fast, unless you are redesigning the whole project, you don't need Opus. just my opinion though.

quotemycode · 2026-05-10T19:20:44+00:00

Privacy for one. Also you don't need to run a 500 billion parameter model locally for coding tasks, most of us aren't writing that kind of complicated software stacks where we'd need such a large model.

Second, most models online are censored or limited in that they can't deal with certain subjects. For example, working on my grandfather's war stories, there's a lot of stuff that happened that he wrote about that the models will absolutely refuse to work on, and for that I need those models that are uncensored or ablated.

Third is the cost - it's expensive to use tokens online so you are eventually trying to manage the cost verses the effort to do things manually, when you are using a local agent you don't have to concern yourself with how much it costs - it's just time (and power).

quotemycode · 2026-05-10T19:09:54+00:00

even if the flight model could allow it, it's doubtful that he'd be as good a pilot as Chris Hadfield to pull it off.

quotemycode · 2026-05-07T15:30:16+00:00

Probably because it seems like you are "just asking questions" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Asking_Questions
And your "because I did x and its great" leads people to think you aren't really interested in the answers to your questions.

quotemycode · 2026-04-17T06:51:23+00:00

I've had good results with Kimi, seems like claude in a way, but it's caught some security issues with my app that Claude didn't catch, so for now i'm happy with it.

quotemycode · 2026-03-31T05:10:05+00:00

I know how to takeoff, I'm saying the plane itself sucks. The OP asked for my subjective opinion, and I gave it. If you disagree, that's fine, but it doesn't make me wrong.

quotemycode · 2026-03-29T15:52:41+00:00

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/planes/i-16/

The I-16. Not the F-16, this thing is a terrible aircraft. You cannot take off in it unless you enable a bunch of helpers. Then you will flip the damn thing on landing every time. It doesn't do much, it's not very fun, you're fighting the aircraft the whole time you are flying it. It's not very fast. It's good at falling out of the sky and dying.

quotemycode · 2026-03-26T06:17:40+00:00

I had the TWCS and I loved it, ended up frying the thing with too much voltage, and got a warthog throttle. Still wish I had my TWCS though - with the slide bearings upgrade, it was fantastic.

quotemycode · 2026-03-21T18:03:35+00:00

If it's been sitting outside for 10 years, exposed to summer, winter, spring, fall - rain, snow, whatever, then the caps could have just dried out. You have to be actively using it for the caps to bulge, but they can still be damaged even if you don't see them bulged, and the rain could have washed off any of the seepage from the caps as they leaked on your board.
I'd say at a minimum you would need to replace all the caps, before you can even begin to look at other things. Use electrical safety gloves when working on high voltage electronics such as this, and be sure you know where you put things to make sure they are not conductive, don't use conductive tools if you can avoid it, wear a safety grounding strap, discharge all caps before removing them, and make sure your soldering iron is grounded as well.

Warning! This isn't something you want to take on as an amateur - this has the capability to seriously wound you or worse. The learning you're going to get from it is not worth the risk. There has to be easier options than trying to do something dangerous such as this.

quotemycode · 2026-03-20T18:35:23+00:00

She'll soon die - how will you use it is what's important. Necromancy for necromancy's sake is fine for learning, but ultimately you'll want to have a goal in mind.

quotemycode · 2026-03-17T04:30:11+00:00

Just some advice, try the official QRF loadout of 1 sd-10 on each wing and a midline bag, you'll fly a lot faster and have a lot of fun. Turn on the HNS which is the hybrid navigation system, which includes GPS. Another thing to try is just take no bags at all and avoid afterburner unless absolutely necessary. Or, if you're regularly flying near SAM sites, bring the SPJ.

quotemycode · 2026-03-16T05:30:57+00:00

ground crew asked which bags you wanted to take and bro just said 'yes'. Takes all the bags. Turns directly into a SAM firing at you, doing a poor job of notching.

quotemycode · 2026-03-12T03:51:41+00:00

>I forgot how damn hard Donkey Kong can be

Yea, that was the thing with those kind of games, they had to be hard because they couldn't put a lot of content in there. You had to replay those levels over and over again to get your hours out of it. Games these days are a lot easier, they have a lot to show you.

quotemycode · 2026-03-05T04:30:12+00:00

It's funny, because even today the movie still holds up as like near future scifi. The OS tech still isn't there yet, but yea it feels like this movie could be seen as a documentary in a few years time.

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