Yep agreed completely. I couldn't imagine torturing myself with a small model for local coding. But Gemma 4 31B is so fucking good for a variety of language modelling tasks.
Google is singlehandedly carrying western open source models. Gemma 4 31B is fantastic.
However, it is a little painful to try to fit the best possible version into 24GB vram with vision + this drafter soon. My build doesn't support any more GPUs and I believe I would want another 4090 (overpriced) for best performance or otherwise just replace it altogether.
Not necessarily with speculative decoding. Whitespace would be trivial to predict and they would petty much keep using the same amount of compute as before.
I don't think that's their primary motive for doing this but it is a side effect.
> Data extraction tasks are amongst the easiest to evaluate because there’s a known “right” answer.
Wrong. There can be a lot of subjectivity and pretending that some golden answer exists does more harm and narrows down the scope of what you can build.
My other main problem with data extraction tasks and why I'm not satisfied with any of the existing eval tools is that the schemas I write change can drastically as my understanding of the problem increases. And nothing really seems to handle that well, I mostly just resort to reading diffs of what happens when I change something and reading the input/output data very closely. Marimo is fantastic for anything visual like this btw.
Also there is a difference between: the problem in reality → the business model → your db/application schema → the schema you send to the LLM. And to actually improve your schema/prompt you have to be mindful of the entire problem stack and how you might separate things that are handled through post processing rather than by the LLM directly.
> Abstract model calls. Make swapping GPT-4 for Claude a one-line change.
And in practice random limitations like structured output API schema limits between providers can make this non-trivial. God I hate the Gemini API.
I got claude to reverse engineer the extension and compare to changedetection and here's what it came up with. Apologies for clanker slop but I think its in poor taste to not attribute the opensource tool that the service is built on (one that's also funded by their SaaS plan)
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Summary: What Is Objectively Provable
- The extension stores its config under the key changedetection_config
- 16 API endpoints in the extension are 1:1 matches with changedetection.io's documented API
- 16 data model field names are exact matches with changedetection.io's Watch model (including obscure ones like time_between_check_use_default, history_n, notification_muted, fetch_backend)
- The authentication mechanism (x-api-key header) is identical
- The default port (5000) matches changedetection.io's default
- Custom endpoints (/auth/, /feature-flags, /email/, /generate_key, /pregate) do NOT exist in changedetection.io — these are proprietary additions
- The watch limit error format is completely different from changedetection.io's, adding billing-specific fields (current_plan, upgrade_required)
- The extension ships with error tracking that sends telemetry (including user emails on login) to the developer's GlitchTip server at 100% sample rate
The extension is provably a client for a modified/extended changedetection.io backend. The open question is only the degree of modification - whether it's a fork, a proxy wrapper, or a plugin system. But the underlying engine is unambiguously changedetection.io.
Apologies but I will use this thread as an opportunity to report CC VSCode extension bugs because I don't think there's an official channel that actually gets read by humans.
> yeah they're shipping too fast and everything is buggy as shit
- fork conversation button doesn't even work anymore in vscode extension
- sometimes when I reconnect to my remote SSH in VSCode, previously loaded chats become inaccessible. The chats are still there in the .jsonl files but for some reason the CC extension becomes incapable of reading them.
-- this issue happens so frequently that I ended up making a skill to allow CC to dig up info from the bugged sessions
> every single product/feature I've used other than the Claude Code CLI has been terrible
yeah they're shipping too fast and everything is buggy as shit
- fork conversation button doesn't even work anymore in vscode extension
- sometimes when I reconnect to my remote SSH in VSCode, previously loaded chats become inaccessible. The chats are still there in the .jsonl files but for some reason the CC extension becomes incapable of reading them.
> preventing misuse.
Imagine not being able to read the tokens you are paying for.