@elijahpotter.dev Hello! I use Harper and subscribe to your blog. I read your last post about the new inference engine. I work at finegrain.ai and among other things implement image models with similar constraints (on mobile devices, fast LoRA swap). I know a few tricks, maybe we should talk :)
Pierre Chapuis
Pierre Chapuis
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https://catwell.info Software @ https://finegrain.ai/. AI and Distributed Systems. Known as @pchapuis or @catwell elsewhere.
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LuaRocks security incident: luarocks.org/security-inc... To the best of my knowledge my mirror (at loadk.com) was not directly affected beyond serving the 3 malicious packages. Thankfully my update code never parses rockspecs, only manifests - plus I always use "t".
I have been repeatedly telling everyone to read Manna by Marshall Brain (written in 2003) ever since I saw the rise of deep learning in 2012. And now we are here: www.jefftk.com/p/teleoperat...
When you do Open Source and change your policy in a way that intentionally would forbid developing the Linux kernel on it... 🤷 sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08...
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Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
Important: earendil.com/posts/sessio... (About the evolution of LLM inference APIs.)
Le front de l'incendie arrive exactement où sont morts les pompiers en 1949 (Croix d'Hins - Le Puch). Il se dirige droit vers le monument commémoratif. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendi...
beej.us/blog/data/ai... Did Fabienne make my favorite scarf? (www.kickstarter.com/projects/fbz...)
It's been 8 months and I still get chills every time Svalbard's last song pops up in my earphones. I understand why they stopped, but it's still sad nevertheless. "I will miss you everyday for the rest of my life", huh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzVR...
By the way the first track from Serena's upcoming album is out and sounds great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO2p...
As we say in French, "ça c'est ma came" www.keygenchurch.com
New TOP 500 list is out. France has 21 entries, like Italy and way behind Germany (41). Germany has N.5, Italy has N.6 and N.8. The first-ranking machine in France is N. 29. Among France's 21, 7 are for CEA, including 3 of the top 6. Sad situation IMO :( top500.org/lists/top500...
Good way to put what I've summed up for years as: I have zero reason to thing *we* are anything else than pattern-matching machines. maxleiter.com/blog/weights All that's missing is continuous learning now.
Controversial opinion: this is absurd and will result in either worse, more expensive phones, or just the good ones not being sold in the EU.
Starting February 18, 2027, smartphones and many portable devices sold in the EU must have batteries that users can remove and replace more easily. That means #Apple #Samsung #Google #Xiaomi etc may need to redesign future devices to meet the new rules www.business-standard.com/technology/t...
I am an absolute fan of Peter (Shanchuan) Lin papers. Always super interesting and straight to the point. This one just came out: arxiv.org/abs/2604.11521
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apenwarr.ca/log/20260316 This is why good teams right now are a few real seniors augmented with AI. Because a defining trait of seniority is knowing exactly where and when you can cut corners and when you need extra trust. Of course this is not very sustainable...
Everyone is seeing the same thing at the same time... Here @juldanjou.bsky.social and Stanislas Polu. julien.danjou.info/blog/the-flo... spolu.sh/notes/202603...
"Open source isn’t dying. It’s being industrialized." (by @juldanjou.bsky.social) julien.danjou.info/blog/open-so...
Just blogged: Thoughts & Links 14 Almost 100% agentic coding-related. As it should. blog.separateconcerns.com/2026-02-24-t...
For those who are already using coding agents 100% of the time or close, this is important: steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi... The "Claude as a pair" way to work is by far my favorite but it is not sustainable because of this. As models and agents improve we'll need to learn to really delegate.
Vibe-coded project of the day. Watch logs from modal runs & kill them. Made with Teal this time, because agents can use languages they don't know much too. I have a real use-case for this, but mostly it was to test terminal.lua. github.com/catwell/mult...
@keltounet.keltia.net Je viens de voir ton update sur blog.keltia.net/la-maison-sa... Ayant longtemps habité pas loin (rue du Dôme) je suis deçu aussi. J'ai immédiatement regardé ce qu'il advenait de Shiki et je suis rassuré : les cuisiniers de Sanki les ont rejoints shiki-boulogne-billancourt.com
At each of the companies I worked for, I have written a blog post describing what I was doing there after a few years. In keeping with the tradition, here it is for Finegrain: blog.separateconcerns.com/2026-02-07-f...
Back to training -> lament existing tooling -> vibe-coded what I lack. If you use Trackio for experiment tracking with concurrent remote (serverless) runs you may like this. github.com/finegrain-ai...
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JB Kempf highlights a key benefit of coding agents in this French podcast: the ability to greatly accelerate feature bootstrapping. www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Mw...