Notes for June 7-14

Another week, another set of bank holidays that I tried to leverage strategically to do interesting things with my time, and… I ended up throwing out my back and having to sit very still for hours at a time, which made the whole thing feel like a waste of paid vacation with extra ibuprofen. The upside, if I can call it that, is that sitting still is reasonably compatible with finishing TV shows, staring at logs, profiling traces and dealing with broken model outputs for hours on end. Which sort of explains my notes for this week… Local Models, Local PainI am a bit fed up with AI. Not in the usual performative sense, but because models are still not that smart, the tooling around them is uneven, and I still don’t have the hardware to play with it the way I want. The week was a slow burn of getting go-pherence to become more than a bunch of random matmuls, which meant pushing Ideogram 4 far enough to make cat pictures and then immediately running into the limits of my RTX 3060. Of…