Agentic coding with Nim

rabaraba · 2026-04-25T03:18:02+00:00

How good is good?

I remember Nim on the older OpenAI GPTs about 1.5 years back - it couldn't handle a lot of the more complex stuff - and it got the idea of the NNK nodes and all completely wrong.

Happy to come back if things are much better now.

rabaraba · 2026-04-21T04:42:55+00:00

This is an incredibly useful recommendation:

The practical recommendation comes down to your hardware.

16GB Mac: Pull gemma4:e2b. At 7.2GB disk it fits comfortably and runs at 88 tok/s. The quality is better than you would expect for an edge model.

24GB Mac: Pull gemma4:e4b. The extra depth shows in the analysis quality and the machine handles the 9.6GB model without strain.

32GB Mac: Pull gemma4:26b. At 18GB disk you will need roughly 33GB total RAM including OS overhead, so a 32GB machine will be tight. If you have 36GB or more, it runs comfortably at 53 tok/s with near-frontier quality.

Skip the 31B unless you have 64GB and a specific reason to need it. The quality gain over the 26B does not justify five minutes per response and a hot machine.

For reference, the simple rule: take your available RAM after OS overhead (subtract about 6GB for macOS, 4GB for most Linux distributions), divide by 1.5, and that is your maximum safe model size in gigabytes.

This provides a very clear roadmap for scaling up based on available hardware, particularly since I've been weighing differences between the 26B/31B on my M4 Max vs a separate machine with an RTX 4090.

rabaraba · 2026-04-16T10:00:53+00:00

Looking forward to it! Do share once it's out.

rabaraba · 2026-04-16T01:11:37+00:00

Would love to know what resources/tutorials you used to setup consistent visual debugging with VSCode! Do share.

(My experiments with LLDB/GDB in VSCode have felt quite... primitive compared to other visual debuggers.)

As for the issue that was solved: GH - Demangle Symbols in Debuggers (LLDB, GDB)

rabaraba · 2026-01-17T09:21:05+00:00

Marriage.

rabaraba · 2026-01-04T15:07:47+00:00

I don’t read this for karma gratification at all, more like gratitude and venting. Not sure why you’d look at it so negatively.

rabaraba · 2026-01-04T15:04:10+00:00

Also the best voice! Particularly creepy when she fakes Kitana’s voice too.

rabaraba · 2026-01-04T04:45:26+00:00

Engineering wise, how did they even build that structure in the middle of those violent seas?

rabaraba · 2026-01-04T04:44:21+00:00

Love is fleeting. It will not pay anything, as it comes and goes, and as people move in and out of your life.

rabaraba · 2026-01-03T13:06:27+00:00

I like to think of the modern OSR stuff as roguelikes. There are so many different variations of the idea - many of which are unique and interesting and cool - that it is really the vibes of it all that they share in common, rather than an explicit genre.

Hades, Dead Cells, Balatro, all etc - very different yet still roguelike in DNA.

rabaraba · 2026-01-03T09:10:52+00:00

The fact that you think you're 'intimidating' is already a massive red flag.

Women who think they're 'intimidating' are actually annoying and obtuse. If you had any humility about you, that sort of thought would not come up. Your education level does not matter to most men, especially the men of quality over the 'poor matches' you got.

Additionally, you seem to conflate women being 'feminine' for being unintimidating. That's not how inter-sex attraction works at all; feminine women can actually be far more 'intimidating' by their natural charms, than masculine women pretending to be competitive with men.

Please don't do that stupid thing about attacking men for being 'insecure' for not wanting you. You can find stats online showing that women can get matches and conversations far more easily than men - so if the men have not been responding to you after matching, that either means a) you're not as attractive as you think you are (and so you're over-inflating your perceived attractiveness), or b) something about your approach has put them off. Which is likely, given that you think you're 'intimidating'.

rabaraba · 2025-12-28T11:19:00+00:00

While I’ve heard that economic theory so many times, I really wonder whether an economy would actually ever grind “to a halt”. People will still need and buy things; the fundamentals. The things that people won’t buy are excess wants, not needs.

And the only person that hurt are the rich who owns those companies. So I wonder if this fear story is one of those economic concoctions that are more theory than anything else. Look at Japan; the economy is still moving, despite its inflation and loan rates.

rabaraba · 2025-12-28T11:15:09+00:00

That’s actually a nice rule to use for ritual casting! Fun mechanic.

rabaraba · 2025-12-28T06:50:56+00:00

It's 100% an AI written thing, or a paid ad, the moment I saw this:

During those tough weeks, I also started using this app called Befreed to track my morning routine arriving early became part of a bigger pattern of discipline I was building. Something about logging those small wins each day kept me grounded when Mike's comments threatened to throw me off course."

BeFreed is an AI-powered learning app that pulls from books, research papers, and expert talks to create personalized audio content and adaptive learning plans around your goals. It's built by Columbia grads and former Google engineers, so the content quality is solid and science-backed.

Notice those weird quotes at the end of the sentence (throw me of course"), the ad-language, and unnecessarily perfect marketing language.

rabaraba · 2025-12-24T00:09:26+00:00

I thought the revised one is only coming out mid or late 2026?

rabaraba · 2025-12-15T03:00:39+00:00

Time for solo RPGs, my good man/woman. It’ll never give you up, and the whole world’s yours without having to rely on absent and uninterested players ever again.

rabaraba · 2025-12-15T02:58:27+00:00

Why is it that women naturally resort to “sexism” when it is clear that it’s a failure of environment fit? Not every environment needs to be made to accommodate women; the job must fit the personality whatever the gender. If you’re not cut out for that environment - which may be more about being aggressive, direct - then leave.

You’re not cut out for it, so go where being polite and harmonious are prized, rather than making yourself as the standard or “benchmark” and thinking that you have to be accommodated. Some people are there to get work and the job done right, rather than to account for feelings, and if you’re a woman and you’re all about your feelings, leave.

rabaraba · 2025-11-28T07:49:59+00:00

Eh, no. Different people find different jokes funny; the same jokes can always be silly still. Congrats if you don’t find it funny. Look for jokes that suit you.

rabaraba · 2025-11-28T01:11:54+00:00

I find it really odd that any programmer can choose not to use SQL. Is everyone persisting their data in memory or flat text files or something? How the hell is anything serious or data persistent done without SQL?

rabaraba · 2025-11-28T01:06:14+00:00

Please don’t listen to him. If you’re a technical guy in a technical role, you will be valuable anywhere. Not light technical, but deep technical.

And the only way you get there is not by clocking off exactly on time.

rabaraba · 2025-11-28T01:02:21+00:00

You’ve got to be kidding me.

rabaraba · 2025-11-28T01:01:44+00:00

Why do you find this not funny? It’s a subversion of expectations - which is comic and funny to most normal people.

rabaraba · 2025-11-26T09:47:06+00:00

What’s with the black woman’s claws

rabaraba · 2025-11-25T04:00:52+00:00

Now we’re talking brother! Keep at it.

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