adamkittelson (u/adamkittelson)

adamkittelson commented on Can I run AI locally? canirun.ai/... · Posted by u/ricardbejarano

I have spent a HUGE amount of time the last two years experimenting with local models.

A few lessons learned:

1. small models like the new qwen3.5:9b can be fantastic for local tool use, information extraction, and many other embedded applications.

2. For coding tools, just use Google Antigravity and gemini-cli, or, Anthropic Claude, or...

Now to be clear, I have spent perhaps 100 hours in the last year configuring local models for coding using Emacs, Claude Code (configured for local), etc. However, I am retired and this time was a lot of fun for me: lot's of efforts trying to maximize local only results. I don't recommend it for others.

I do recommend getting very good at using embedded local models in small practical applications. Sweet spot.

adamkittelson · 2 days ago

Anecdotal but for some reason I had a pretty bad time with qwen3.5 locally for tool usage. I've been using GPT-OSS-120B successfully and switched to qwen so that I could process images as well (I'm using this for a discord chat bot).

Everything worked fine on GPT but Qwen as often as not preferred to pretend to call a tool and not actually call it. After much aggravation I wound up just setting my bot / llama swap to use gpt for chat and only load up qwen when someone posts an image and just process / respond to the image with qwen and pop back over to gpt when the next chat comes in.

adamkittelson commented on I'm not worried about AI job loss davidoks.blog/p/why-im-no... · Posted by u/ezekg

nemo1618 · a month ago

"The steamroller is still many inches away. I'll make a plan once it actually starts crushing my toes."

You are in danger. Unless you estimate the odds of a breakthrough at <5%, or you already have enough money to retire, or you expect that AI will usher in enough prosperity that your job will be irrelevant, it is straight-up irresponsible to forgo making a contingency plan.

adamkittelson · a month ago

I'm not worried about the danger of losing my job to an AI capable of performing it. I'm worried about the danger of losing my job because an executive wanted to be able to claim that AI has enhanced productivity to such a degree that they were able to eliminate redundancies with no regard for whether there was any truth to that statement or not.

adamkittelson commented on Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee arstechnica.com/cars/2026... · Posted by u/CharlesW

ipv6ipv4 · 2 months ago

In light of recent trends, Tesla is signaling supreme confidence in its prospects by already pursuing enshittification.

adamkittelson · 2 months ago

They’ve been enshittifying for the better part of a decade. The model 3 launching without rain sensors and taking years to get any where near comparable with cameras comes to mind.

adamkittelson commented on Linux is good now pcgamer.com/software/linu... · Posted by u/Vinnl

adamkittelson · 2 months ago

I made the move about a month ago to bazzite on my desktop with an nvidia graphics card. I still have my windows drive for when I need it but that's pretty rare. Bazzite isn't perfect but we've reached the point where the rough edges are less painful than the self sabotage microsoft has been inflicting on their users in recent versions of windows.

adamkittelson commented on Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year electrek.co/2025/08/18/te... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

Arubis · 7 months ago

It’s a liability on most index funds. I’m too lazy to manage active trading and shorting but would buy an ETF that tracks the S&P 500 minus TSLA.

adamkittelson · 7 months ago

I moved to FSPTX a while back because it doesn't have TSLA. I'm not sure how long I'll stay there though, it has like a quarter of its holdings in NVDA now which has been great so far but it's going to hurt when the AI bubble pops.

adamkittelson commented on Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023) stevana.github.io/erlangs... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

myth_drannon · a year ago

"In February 1998 Erlang was banned for new product development within Ericsson—the main reason for the ban was that Ericsson wanted to be a consumer of software technologies rather than a producer." - The creator of the language banned any use of it internally.

adamkittelson · a year ago

It is wildly disingenuous to just copy paste that line from wikipedia and not the rest of the paragraph.

> In February 1998, Ericsson Radio Systems banned the in-house use of Erlang for new products, citing a preference for non-proprietary languages.[15] The ban caused Armstrong and others to make plans to leave Ericsson.[16] In March 1998 Ericsson announced the AXD301 switch,[8] containing over a million lines of Erlang and reported to achieve a high availability of nine "9"s.[17] In December 1998, the implementation of Erlang was open-sourced and most of the Erlang team resigned to form a new company, Bluetail AB.[8] Ericsson eventually relaxed the ban and re-hired Armstrong in 2004.

- edit, poster was quoting a quote in the article, not wikipedia, the article is the one omitting the context

adamkittelson commented on Anime is eating the world a16z.com/anime-is-eating-... · Posted by u/vishnurnair

coolbreezetft24 · a year ago

I loved the first two seasons of Wheel of Time (and also loved the books growing up) - what is wrong with it?

Never read The Witcher or played the games but also really enjoyed the netflix series

adamkittelson · a year ago

If you find that you like something that most people don't it's generally best to just leave it alone and be happy you enjoyed it. If you try to delve into why so many people don't like the thing you like then either they will manage to convince you the thing you like is actually bad, which doesn't benefit you, or you'll start to question whether or not your taste in media is bad, which doesn't benefit you.

adamkittelson commented on So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine impromptugames.com/moving... · Posted by u/Kye

jimmaswell · 3 years ago

> Read the documentation on the Gameplay Framework. All of it!

Is it just me or is this an unviable learning strategy? My approach for learning anything has always been to follow small tutorials, build an intuition, and only consult docs when I need some specifics.

adamkittelson · 3 years ago

I think it's just different learning styles. My preference for learning e.g. a new programming language has always been to read a book cover to cover as the first step (if it's a language established enough to have a book anyway). Note that it's not important that I actually understand everything on this first pass. The cover to cover is mostly about getting the lay of the land so I know what exists, then, even years later when I have a problem that could be solved by using some bit of the language that I read about but didn't really understand but vaguely recall is a thing it springs to mind and I can do my deep dive on that aspect then.

adamkittelson commented on ErlMUD Commentary zxq9.com/erlmud/html/inde... · Posted by u/slondr

bcrosby95 · 3 years ago

Modelling mobs as actors can make it extremely difficult to build a fully featured MUD, especially if you want to implement a scripting language that lets builders make them do cool things. You probably want something more coarse grained.

adamkittelson · 3 years ago

I built a MUD in Elixir and I completely agree. After many iterations what I landed on as the best path was having rooms as actors. Mobs, characters, items etc are just data in the room process (actor) state (in memory that is, in the database they're all modeled more or less as you'd expect for a relational DB).

This gives me a large number of units of concurrency, while allowing the overwhelming majority of the code to be written sequentially since most of the complicated bits (combat etc) happen within a room so I don't have to think about concurrency at all for those. The only communication between processes is moving monster / character data from one room to another when those entities move around the map.

adamkittelson commented on Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease tomshardware.com/news/asu... · Posted by u/thunderbong

adamkittelson · 3 years ago

The ROG Ally seems like a really nice piece of hardware. Having said that, I cannot possibly stress enough how bad of a time you will have if it breaks and you have to deal with an RMA / ASUS customer support.

You'd probably save yourself a lot of time and frustration by just throwing it in the trash and buying a new one or a Steam Deck if something goes wrong with it.