Farmadupe · HackerLangs

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I'm totally feeling you here as well. Fable is definitely quicker to first output token on `claude.ai` (ie less internal reasoning tokens being generated), and given how much more expensive decode is than prefill, I'm sure that must pay for itself pretty nicely, on top of any architectural changes that they must have made since the opus 4 architecture was locked in.

Farmadupe

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Yes this is an extremely well known result for exactly the reason you guessed. It's not just abcktracking, asking an LLM to present a conclusion and then justify is also an excellent way to provoke hallucination as the model con concts "any justification that plausibly justifies the words it's already said".

This is the actual reason why openai _invented_ reasoning models, to give them time/space to work out a solution, rather than having to magic a correct solution out of thin air from token 1.

It's less important now that all models do reasoning, but it's still almost always better to make the output come out last rather than first.

Farmadupe

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Is it too cynical to read the first quote as "when openai catch up, we will restore fable 5 to subscription plans"?

In other words, they're saying "We know have a monopoloy and we will take all of your money until someone offers a cheaper competing product"?

And "We intend to do this as quickly as we can" read as a non-promise then as much as it does now?

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Well, I am assuming that this is all based on the fact that Anthropic have enough compute capacity to serve fable 5 now and in the future, and they're "only" limiting it in the coming week to get richer quicker. Since compute hardware is presumably relatively un-fungible, I'm assuming Anthropic isn't offering a week of fable-5 for everyone on rented hardware that they're paying exporbitant fees for?

In other words, my cynical read is "if they can serve it under the terms of subscription plans for a week", then they could serve it under the same terms for a month?

Farmadupe

15 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

2 and 3 bit quants are often closer to gibberish than hallucination, and that'll happen regardless of context.

I shouldn't claim too much, I haven't tried GLM5.2 at 2/3 bit quantization, but if I were a betting man I'd put money on "useless even as a chatbot"

Farmadupe

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It's amazingly vacuous isn't it? I think the most interesting read was the fact that they were surprised llama.cpp crashed when they used a bad set of commandline arguments.

Although in the section immediately above the observation they claimed that they ran 10 whole completions with 100% success rate. So who knows.

I have to admit I slightly miss the flood of AI-psychosis research papers that seemed to be popping up a couple of months ago. Good to know there's still one or two new ones floating around.

Farmadupe

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I'm not sure there's a one-stop shop for this at the moment. I think the process is:

* Have a box with sufficient spare (V)RAM -- probably 8G for simple categorization with qwen3.5-4b, and 24G or more for more intelligent categorization with qwen3.6-27b or gemma4-31b.

* Download or compile llama.cpp. Choose a model, then choose one of the "quantized" builds that will actually fit on your hardware. There are literally hundreds to thousands of these per model on Hugging Face.

* Spend half a day tuning command-line parameters until llama.cpp doesn't crash.

* Watch llama.cpp regularly OOM itself, then put it in a systemd service with a memory limit so it doesn't take the entire machine down when it dies.

* Download all your photos to a folder.

* Start vibing a Python script to categorize your images by repeatedly prompting the LLM with each image in turn.

* Spend days tweaking/refining the prompt to try to get the LLM to actually do what you want.

The endgame is one of:

* The local model categorizes your images. Yay.

* The local model is too slow and you give up. Boo.

* The local model is too slow, so you spend $1k-$10k on hardware. Your image categorization task becomes a cover story for buying new gear. Yay.

* The local model can't understand your categorization metric, so you give up. Boo.

* You eagerly await news of the next open model being released. Yay?

* You consider replacing your local model with a frontier model, but then you realize you'd be spending $500 to categorize your photos. Boo.

* You refuse to allow Google/Gemini/Anthropic to train on your nudes. Boo.

Farmadupe

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Yup, especially when for a lot of us, the price of the frontier subscription has become a cost of doing business over the last 6 months.

If you're already doing big boy stuff with big boy models, then... just carry on trucking!

Only place I'd differ is for vision/OCR tasks. Small/medium open weights models are as good as SoTa, and token prices for prefill are kinda very not worth it for larger batch tasks.

Other thing that people forget is, if you want to have even a smallish LLM as a reliable personal service, you've got to carve out 16-24 of (V)RAM and leave it permanently running.

Farmadupe

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The latest rounds of open weights vision language models are incredibly good. Like, massively good. Open weights vision capabilities trade blows with frontier models. Over the last few months I'd roughly rank capabilities as Gemini -> {chatgpt and SoTa open weights models} -> Claude.

qwen3.5-2b and qwen3.5-4b are great at document parsing. They can run on CPU

qwen3.6-27b and gemma4-31b are borderline better than the human eye in some cases. Their OCR isn't perfect, but they're seriously good. They can still run on the CPU but you'll be waiting minutes per document.

You can demand JSON, YAML, MD, or freeform text just by varying the prompt. Even if you have a custom template, you can just put that in the prompt and they'll do an OK-ish job.

There's also models that aren't in the r/locallama zeitgeist. IBM released a new 4b parameter model for structured text extraction last week, and there's a sea of recent chinese OCR models too.

IMO the open wights models are so good that in a lot of cases it's not worth paying frontier labs for OCR purposes. The only barrier to entry is the effort to set up a pipeline, and havin the spare CPU/GPU capacity.

Farmadupe

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If it helps, I mean it in a really literal sense. qwen3.6 27b is currently $3.20 per million tokens on openrouter right now which is way overpriced. As good as the 27b is, kimi k2.5 $3.00 and it's just in another league in terms of capability. There's no reason to spend money on it.

And even alibaba's own qwen3.6-plus is $1.95, so it's kinda easy to come to a conclusion that alibaba (nor anyone else) is really interested in hosting that model.

And don't get me wrong, I fully agree with you, qwen3.6 27b is an amazing model. I run it on my own hardware and every day I'm constantly surprised with what it can zero shot.

Farmadupe

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I wonder if for a model that small with a permissive license it might not be worth their time to host a commercial grade inference stack?

Might be easier to chuck it over the fence and let other providers handle it as it'll run in almost any commercial grade card?

Also speculating, but I wonder if it might also create a bit of a pricing problem relative to Gemini flashlight depending on serving cost and quality of outputs?

As a comparison, despite being SotA for their size, the smallest qwen models on openrouter (27b and 35b) are not at all worth using, as there are way bigger and better models for less oricemon a per token basis

Farmadupe

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Using protobuf is practical enough in embedded. This person isn't the first and won't be the last. Way faster than JSON, way slower than C structs.

However protobuf is ridiculously interchangeable and there are serializers for every language. So you can get your interfaces fleshed out early in a project without having to worry that someone will have a hard time ingesting it later on.

Yes it's a pain how an empty array is a valid instance of every message type, but at least the fields that you remember to send are strongly typed. And field optionality gives you a fighting chance that your software can still speak to the unit that hasn't been updated in the field for the last five years.

On the embedded side, nanopb has worked well for us. I'm not missing having to hand maintain ad-hoc command parsers on the embedded side, nor working around quirks and bugs of those parsers on the desktop side

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