Recent discourse from major AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic has increasingly centered on the existential threat posed by super-intelligent AI. These organizations are grappling with the daunting task of ensuring that a super-intelligence - an entity with cognitive capabilities far exceeding our own - remains...

What's the F.U.S.S?For the last few decades, the prevailing orthodoxy of software development has been F.O.S.S - Free and Open Source Software. I started releasing code I made myself before I even knew it existed, just because of the joy it gave to make something that was (perhaps) useful to others. It was a...

Rationale-“I tried asking an LLM to help me with this database task and all I got back was outdated and wrong answers”-“The LLM said it had written the code but when I tried it it had just skipped parts of it and completely misunderstood others”-“I'm not saving any time when I have to sit and copy paste results and...

“I don't understand how you can pretend that simple next-token prediction models can do what humans brains can!”I hear this a lot - and to me it sounds like pushback against how Large Language Models (LLMs) keep making advancements. But here is a different perspective: Maybe it's less about LLMs being “smart” in a...

Recently I noticed unusually high load on one of my servers. It turned out to be due to my somewhat new Forgejo service being absolutely hammered by bots. It wasn't a typical brute-force attack, but rather a massive, distributed crawl from the Meta (Facebook) crawler. I guess they want all that juicy code we...

Unmasking the UnnamedIf you’ve spent any time in the retro scene, you know the drill. You’re browsing through old demos or cracktros, and a killer tune starts playing - the kind that stays stuck in your head for days. But there's always that nagging question: Who actually composed this?Historically, these tracks...

Why are we hereA while back I found myself having an irritating problem. I was reverse engineering an IP camera and wanted to modify its filesystem. Easy - you just desolder the BGA NAND, read it out, patch and write it back - right?Well, not when there's a difference in the ECC depending on whether a page has been...

tl;dr: ArgotWhatsapp, Messenger, Signal, Discord, Teams, SlackSome better than others, some truly encrypted and some not. What they all have in common is that they're controlled by one single entity - yet those are the services we trust to handle our digital person-to-person communication.This is not how the...

OpenWebUI is a great AI toolbox for personal or family use. They manage to get a pretty user friendly UI set up that can tie into both local and remote AI servers - with some caveats. The support for Speech-To-Text is one such, where the only local support is for their built-in Faster Whisper server, which only...

What follows is an actual session I just had with the LLM I’m using for hobbyist development, Devstral-2, using the Mistral Vibe CLI. The application is a mod I’ve developed for the game Hytale .While looking at my server logs, it seemed as if the mod was perhaps not doing what it should. I copied a few lines from...

I'm using Mistral Vibe as my “AI CLI” when doing LLM-aided development. Sometimes I use local models, sometimes their cloud models, it depends on the sensitivity of what I'm working on. I grew a bit tired of having to repeat what I was working on when picking up each project again though and this post describes what...

I’ve vibe coded.Challenging one’s own convictions can sometimes be difficult, but necessary. I’ve used generative AI sporadically for some tasks for a while, and I haven’t been all that impressed. However, people I’ve known for many years and whose competence is not in question kept telling me how extremely...