Making Agentic Enterprise Solutions in the Mortgage Space
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Nich retweeted
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
LLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math.
rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp…
github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und…
huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0…
huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.…
Nich retweeted
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Introducing tsrs: a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler 🦀
We are not forking TypeScript!
◆ In close collaborating with the TypeScript team
◆ Up to 8x faster than TS 7.0 & ~70% less memory
◆ Runs in WASM, so it works in your browser & on Workers
◆ Soon part of the Oxc toolchain
npx tsrs
blog.cloudflare.com/typescri…
Nich retweeted
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
Nich retweeted
I’m seeing teams at Vercel iterate just as fast on Zig, Go, Rust projects as TypeScript & Python ones.
The days of language or runtime choice based on human convenience are over. Agents are the new compilers.
They compile intent into fast software.
Nich retweeted
woah
At 250 billion DNS cache entries, one wasted byte costs 250 GB of RAM.
Five Rust optimizations later: 100 TB freed, inserts 43% faster, lookups 19% faster.
We didn't trade speed for space. cfl.re/4gyL9Jj
Nich retweeted
Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant.
- No VC funding.
- No viral launch.
- No TED talk.
- Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve.
He built a language that fit in kilobytes.
50 years later, it runs everything.
Linux kernel. Windows. macOS.
Every iPhone. Every Android.
NASA’s deep space probes.
The International Space Station.
> Python borrowed from it.
> Java borrowed from it.
> JavaScript borrowed from it.
If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow.
He died in 2011.
The same week as Steve Jobs.
Jobs got the front pages.
Ritchie got silence.
This Legend deserves to be celebrated.
Nich retweeted
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
I've never heard anyone talk about this so I don't know if this is a first or not, thought of this yesterday:
Tokens Based Turn Count
Instead of giving an agent a static turn count, store the I/O tokens and the cost per token of each token type and give the agent a token limit.
When the agent gets close to the token limit, give the agent the context that it needs to return soon.
This helps ensure profit on agentic features. Read more on nicholasrtaylor.com/blog/tok…
Nich retweeted
What Happens When AI Tokens Cost More Than Your Employees?
@Jason:
“We, with our agents, hit $300/day per agent using the Claude API, like instantly. And that was doing, maybe, 10 or 20%. That's $100k/year per agent.”
@chamath:
“We're getting to a place where we have to basically now say, ‘What is the token budget that we're willing to give our best devs?’”
“And then if you aggregate it across all people, you can clearly see a trend where you're like, ‘Well, hold on a second, now they need to be at least 2x as productive as another employee.’”
“That is actively happening inside my business, because otherwise I'll run out of money.”
Jason:
“Yeah. This is a very interesting trend that you're not going to hear anybody else talk about, but when do tokens outpace the salary of the employee?”
“Because you're about to hit it. I'm about to hit it.”
Nich retweeted
please stop with the brain dead AI takes.
honestly the only reason why AI is going to take your job is because your low IQ takes are so low that it makes room temperature seem high
Nich retweeted
33 years ago, Torvalds announced the Linux project 🐧
"Just a hobby, won't be big and professional"
Nich retweeted
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