I need to see these proper harnesses I tried oMLX and OpenCode a few weeks ago a...

cyberax · 2026-05-11T07:22:44.000000Z

I'm playing with a tape drive for backups, so I asked a local model to rewrite LTFS ( https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs ) in Go.

I gave it the reference C implementation, the LTFS spec from SNIA, and asked it to use the C implementation to verify the correctness of the Go code.

LTFS is a pretty straightforward spec, so it made a very reasonable port within about 2 days. It's now working on implementing the iSCSI initiator (client) to speak with my tape drive directly, without involving the kernel.

Edit: the model is Qwen3.6-35B

phamilton · 2026-05-11T03:29:40.000000Z

I'm running opencode with qwen3.6-35b-a3b at a 3-bit quant. I also have qwen3.5-0.8b used for context compaction. I run with 128k context.

It's usable. I set it loose on the postgres codebase, told it to find or build a performance benchmark for the bloom filter index and then identify a performance improvement. It took a long time (overnight), but eventually presented an alternate hashing algorithm with experimental data on false positive rate, insertion speed and lookup speed. There wasn't a clear winner, but it was a reasonable find with rigorous data.

Balinares · 2026-05-11T06:47:08.000000Z

Do you encounter looping issues at such low quants? How do you deal with those?

nullsanity · 2026-05-11T02:53:51.000000Z

Hey man, you can just say "I'm lazy, so I'm staying with the cloud. if I wanted to use my brain, I wouldn't be using AI, gosh" - it's much shorter.

fennecfoxy · 2026-05-11T09:16:40.000000Z

Personal attacks are against the rules, by the way.

yieldcrv · 2026-05-11T17:43:30.000000Z

all the money and clout is in considering people’s reported problems as valid and solving them

so when I encounter a common but invalidated friction, I explain it like I’m 5, understanding that many of the engineering and entrepreneurial problem solvers have the emotional intelligence of a 5 year old