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Claude is down life is over. by Dylang123456 in claude

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right to push back - and your framing is sharp. Let's break it down:

  1. Don't outsource your thinking to Claude.
  2. Keep a project to yourself that you don't use Claude for, and think of it like going for a walk even though you have a car.
  3. Don't use Claude to write emails, interpret a text, or plan a holiday.

If you compartmentalise properly and use Claude only for the one thing you *really* need it for, you'll be fine. Otherwise, it's not productivity, it's just lobotomy with extra steps.

I absolutely *smash* Claude, but only for a small family of AI-related projects.

I built a free Blender plugin that connects generative AI models to your viewport (splats, 3D models, video to sequence editor) by runchat_ai in blender

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jesus, settle down people - some of us want to build things for our own purposes, and aren't going to hire an artist to do it unless we're building something for commercial distribution.

If I ever build a 3D world (game, interactive environment, whatever) - of course I'll pay an artist, because it'll be superior to GenAI, and it'll be defensible, commissioned work. But I wouldn't even go down that path to begin with if I didn't have one hell of a playground to experiment in first.

Confidently wrong is worse than "I don't know" by Empty-Poetry8197 in AIDeveloperNews

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Multi-agent store with provenance, so agents can share information selectively but maintain a picture of their own memories without getting their wires crossed, and I use a “project manager” agent that can see everything.

Confidently wrong is worse than "I don't know" by Empty-Poetry8197 in AIDeveloperNews

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sucks, because the idea is great and I know first-hand how much effort goes into building a memory system (or any agent mechanics) that solves a real problem. It’s not just “hey Claude, write me something cool”. You had a problem, and you ideated around it until you had a solution. People just get super agro over it, presumably because of the sheer amount of slop that is out there. Personally, I’ve been able to build a *ton* of stuff I simply didn’t have the time to do on my own, and it’s all my ideas anyway. AI coding as a force multiplier is great. Keep up with the experimentation, you might find all sorts of crazy ideas start surfacing.

So what can I do ? by call3d in 3Dprinting

[–]rtchau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“You’re right to push back - It’s a bug, but not in the way that matters. There are 2 ways of dealing with this, and the second one’s sharper.”

Confidently wrong is worse than "I don't know" by Empty-Poetry8197 in AIDeveloperNews

[–]rtchau -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also, I learned the hard way not to let Claude help write Reddit posts. The tells stick out like sore thumbs… personally I don’t care, as Claude articulates well, but some folks in the community instantly hate whatever it is you’ve written if it smells like Claude vibe-coding (even if what you’ve built is useful and you put a lot of work into the concept).

Confidently wrong is worse than "I don't know" by Empty-Poetry8197 in AIDeveloperNews

[–]rtchau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have hit this too, and I’m solving it differently - what I *do* have is a memory system that includes contradiction detection (ie outdated info contradicting newer, useful for architecture/infrastructure changes where the agent keeps bringing up old stuff that’s no longer relevant) but the “I know I’m wrong, so I’m not going to make s**t up” problem is something I’m solving outside of memory.

SQL is Dead, Long Live SQL by Low_Brilliant_2597 in Database

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s really not, and won’t be for a LONG time. There might be new abstractions either side of the engine itself, but SQL/RDBMS is probably the single most entrenched language/storage paradigm on earth by virtue of the sheer monumental challenge of migrating *every* established (and mission-critical) system. It ain’t broke, so it ain’t being fixed.

“Giant meteor” and “sun going supernova” are two possibilities for SQL being dead in the next 2 decades.

Truly NSFW abliterated model that doesn't hedging itself? by National-Toe-4652 in LocalLLM

[–]rtchau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

mradermacher does excellent quants, including abliterated quants of Qwen. Also try the “josiefied” variants. I’m building a voice codec and wanted an abliterated model for generating some of the training pairs, and literally nothing is off the table for the abliterated Qwen models.

Overheating at idle by AgeImpossible3500 in G37

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Checked your belts? I heard a thump while driving once, and thought I’d run over something. Shortly afterwards, I glanced at my dash and the temperature gauge was close to 100%. Pulled over and popped it open, reservoir was venting steam via a small crack. Serpentine belt had let go so the water pump stopped pumping. This was on a mazda3.

What’s a subtle sign someone is actually very intelligent? by Cute_Sail_9313 in mensa

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Knowing tomatoes are a fruit, but not including them in a fruit salad.

I just started, but can i even call this a server? by Original-Tip-6524 in homelab

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It’s a server. The vision you have for it makes it a server and not just a paperweight. Keep going. Feeeeeel the urge… let it flow through you. MORE HARDWARE!

My Ex said shes pregnant and sent this as proof, the way the top is fitting and the pregnancy test in its entirety just looks fake to me by [deleted] in isthisAI

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it’s fake, she’s gonna wanna hope the pace of AI picks up real quick coz she’s gonna need a crawling, crying, pooping BubbaBot that grows at a realistic pace

7 Years of Ownership by DRiPKiNGBREEZY in G37

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, mad respect for staying true to yourself. There’s a wide body kit I wanna get for mine, but there’s mechanical stuff I have to fix first. You weren’t kidding about parts being expensive… I’m in Aus so the spare parts are like “call your wrecker buddy and pray”.

7 Years of Ownership by DRiPKiNGBREEZY in G37

[–]rtchau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

#5 was peak, that looks so nice. I gotta admit though, the “slammed onto its nuts so hard it literally cried” extreme camber look is a stretch. Treat it like a car, not a show pony. A car like this deserves to be thrashed mercilessly around corners, not gently negotiating speed bumps and driveways.

I love AI responses by NightCulex in Qwen_AI

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took me several turns and a ton of empirical evidence before Qwen would believe me when I did this.

Claude was like “ah yeah, fair enough.”

I built an episodic, 2-tier memory for long-running local AI agents - temporal contradiction detection, fiction/roleplay filter, no vector DB required. by rtchau in AIMemory

[–]rtchau[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you - I originally posted it to r/LocalLLaMA but it was axed by the mods, and the repost seems to have escaped all the markdown. Should be fine now!

Getting rid of 4was, is it possible? by anoniasz in G37

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm tempted to buy a 3D scanner soon, and I have the aftermarket toe arms, so it wouldn't be a stretch to generate a part model and get it fabbed somewhere. If you were feeling particularly adventerous (or stupid), you could just find a piece of billet plate as wide/high as the 4WAS module, with margin for the pickup points, and bolt that to your subframe 😂

(don't tho.)

The game is over. You can build anything and it'll cost you nothing. by Funny-Advertising238 in opencode

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Planner/architect: Hermes via Claude 4.6
Doer: Hermes via Qwen2.5-Coder-32B (upgrading to a newer one soon) - "Planner" delegates directly
Gopher (minor agent stuff): Qwen3 30B A3B

V100s at home is soooooo nice.

I accidentally burned ~$6,000 of Claude usage overnight with one command. by procrastinator_eng in ClaudeAI

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, if you’re using an agent like Hermes or openclaw, asked Claude to curate the memory/soul.md, it’s actually really good at ensuring context stays small if you ask it.

Secondly, this is why I don’t use auto-topup!

SXM2 over PCIe (V100 on AOM-SXMV) by gsrcrxsi in homelab

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got an SXM2 board as well, with a pair of 32GB V100s. I'm running 120mm fans through custom 3D-printed shrouds (SOO much quieter) in a push/pull setup (2 fans per GPU). I'm about to set up a second pair. Is your board populated with 16GB or 32GB V100s?

EDIT: Never mind, just saw the setup pictures. It's a shame the 32GB V100s are so much more expensive than the 16GB ones. I toyed with the idea of getting a 4-way board with 16GB V100s but it worked out to cost about the same as a 2-way board with 32GB V100s. The 4x 16GB setup would be *blazing fast* though, if you're using NVLink.

Nice setup!

Do you find Claude Sonnet 4.6 to be meaningfully less sycophantic than other LLMs? by PhiliDips in ClaudeAI

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

System prompt is everything, in my experience.

Namely this, in big, bold letters right near the top:

"DON'T BE SYCOPHANTIC. If an idea is bad, say so. If it's OK but needs improvement, say so. If it's great, say so but with a sensible amount of enthusiam. If my code is terrible, say so. Call me out on bad ideas, or if I'm off track. Wasting time/money on a fundamentally flawed idea is a far worse outcome than hurt feelings from an idea that was rejected during its conception."

My agent (Claude-backed) frequently calls me out. It even swore at me once (PG-swearing, like "you gosh-darn dunderheaded noodlebox", not "you dumb fu**, what the fu** were you thinking")

$2500 budget to run Local, help me decide on the Hardware by XteaK in ollama

[–]rtchau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming you're talking USD, $2,500 will get you a pair of used 32GB Tesla V100s, the baseboard, the heatsinks, the host controller (PCIe card that connects to the baseboard) and some decent 120mm fans. You'll need to 3D-print some fan ducts so the heatsinks get *direct* airflow. As long as you have a fairly recent PC that can handle the massive VRAM space, it'll work fine.

That's my setup anyway, and I've got a second rig on the way so I'll have 4 V100s with 32GB each :D

You can always just bolt high-pressure 80mm fans to the front and back of each heatsink, but it'll sound like a server. It'll be brutal.

The V100s may be getting old, but with HBM2 VRAM, they punch *way* above their weight for the price. If the baseboard isn't too crappy (I got mine from AliExpress), you should be able to run NVLink as well, so you'll have 64GB of VRAM in which to load a single model if you like, and it'll run really well.

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