I started experimenting 2-weeks ago on using LLMs in a pseudo-deterministic way. I kept getting results that proved my hypothesis, which is that LLMs could be harnessed deterministically, but I could not prove why, so I kept going.

I may now have proven why. If you start your prompt input with many compiled JS binaries, it will force the LLM to take an abstract logical reasoning path that we have not seen before. I have run this thousands times against Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 and Gemini-3-Flash with consistently working results.

For example, when I uploaded all Facebook binaries (i.e., FB-Static folder when loading facebook.com) at the start of my prompt, then provided my code and abstract brief, Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 was able to render a fully contextual working view, considering client attributes, at a cost of of 1200 compute tokens (given 380,000 prompt input tokens).

The punchline: LLMs that we know as "math" models, significantly outperformed LLMs that we know as "abstract reasoning" models, at a small fraction of compute cost. And this may only be the beginning of the punchline.

Seeing is believing. All detailed on the link, including examples you can click and try for yourself: https://terminalvalue.net/

My experience is that it's much better than the alternative of games running natively on your phone. I would say better than the switch too in most cases for me (more battery life, shorter load times) though may depend on the game.

I also noticed a significant improvement running it on WiFi after I upgraded to a mesh network. I've only tried over cloud a few times, can appreciate connection requirements may very high, but even being able to load it up wirelessly in different parts of the house or backyard is a big plus for me.

There's no way you're going to get top quality like those sites at a place like Fiverr either. They've spent millions on branding and marketing.

I can see Midjourney already replacing the low end. The question is how good can it get, and then as the bar is raised what can be done to differentiate. Answer to the latter ironically may be going back to old school human interfaces.

> There's no way you're going to get top quality like those sites at a place like Fiverr either.

There is a grain of truth to this, but again just choose whatever lower-budget website you want. And then just try the exercise I suggested.

Midjourney isn't producing work at a "bad Fiverr" quality level, it's not producing usable work at all yet (at least without a lot of hands-on prompt tuning, at which point why not just use Fiverr?). At least with Fiverr, I am likely to end up with something I can put on the site, which is not true of Midjourney yet.

The language models are probably more actually useful today. I've played around with writing hypothetical articles using them. For topics I know where it's a fairly straightforward, e.g. Five qualities some job role needs, it does a "decent" job.

Decent in this context doesn't mean something I could just hand to an editor. But it does mean a pretty good starting point that I could amend, flesh out, add some links, add a quote or two. I could certainly see using it to give me a sort of pre-draft on some fairly evergreen topic.

I could also use it to generate some boilerplate definitions or historical background to include in an article.

But, sadly, I think you'll see the LLMs being used to generate a lot of blog/article content with a minimum of human effort for even less than the small amount being paid for a lot of this today.

supposedly the Fiverr-contractor soon just will be a prompt-tuner with a large cache of "good" images.

I wouldn't say useless. He'll look to buy other smart peripherals that fit into the Alexa ecosystem, not a competitor's. It helps build up the brand. There's also a lot of data there to collect.

Maybe not the most lucrative revenue stream, but not nothing.

Yep, this is a feature, not just for tracking but also containment when navigating to external links. Big reason why all of those apps and others aggressively push users from web to mobile.

Also includes YT Music, making it not much more expensive than other streaming music services if you're willing to use it over something like Spotify.

I really really wish I could love Youtube Music. But I just cant. It is even worst than Apple Music.

I've been using it. It's gotten a lot better than when it first came out. Super annoying that they released a product that was far inferior (and probably still is inferior) to Google Play music and forced everyone to switch.

>It's gotten a lot better than when it first came out.

Thanks. May be I will check it out again.

Google has been trying to diversify outside of search + Google Apps but everything they try just feels janky and doomed for the graveyard in a couple of years anyway. Stadia, Chromebooks, Google Home, Wifi, Fiber, all of the Nest stuff post-acquisition, Fi… they all seem like they start off with a bang, then go nowhere and just fizzle for a few years before getting the axe. It makes it hard to get excited about anything they announce. I think Facebook has been doing this too.

At the end of the day, they’re advertising companies trying to be something more.

Yeah, this is the biggest reason I switched to MacOS. Not enough time / mental energy to deal with scaling fonts on external displays.

The one time I had a Mac book some years ago external screens would only work if the laptop was on power, and after sleep I had to reattach the screen each time. This is issue was present the whole time (some months) I had this 2000$ beast (for the whole series, not just my Exemplar), afaik the 2015 macbook pro. Forums filled with the problem, no solutions in sight. Honestly a horrible experience that I could do nothing but wait with such crucial issues.

On Linux I could just edit my xconf and everything was fine.

I guess you never ran into https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/08/24/macbook-pro-externa.... The chroma is broken on a large number of external displays when using OS X. Just search the apple forums for how common this problem is, and Apple hasn't fixed it in years now. It's one of the reasons I gave up on OS X because I need external monitors to just work without blurry fonts.

Heh, SA was a huge part of my formative years, spent a ton of time (years / many many hours) lurking there. Sad to see the spiral that happened with Lowtax. Feeling very melancholic...

Accessibility.

I can't game on PC anymore because of RSI when using mouse. Even for cross platform games, the console version usually has far superior controller support.

I had a very similar experience around the same timeframe. I was also heavily discouraged by relatives in the field.

How wrong they ended up being...