Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 56mIf you tell Claude to use Ultracode and take its time — it WILL. 6hrs of just chugging along… good thing is, with Sonnet and a Max plan you can do that and still have ample headroom 020
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 02/10/2026You don’t need Opus for programmatic videos: Sonnet will do. Me to Sonnet 5.5 Extra: So we know Opus can make videos by employing tooling; how are you, Sonnet 5.5 at it? Make a video about making videos 1221
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 29/09/2026This was a one-shot with Opus 5.5: software is dead, long live software! austegard.com/deepzoom/eie... 190
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 25/09/2026Nobody: Me: "Iteratively, checking your results as you go, generate as high fidelity as you can muster, a pyCairo version of Mona Lisa typing on a laptop. Be creative and critical of your own work." Opus, 3 hrs later 👇 Code: github.com/oaustegard/e... 000
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 25/09/2026This is mildly concerning, seems like they’re setting us up for a transition to pay per token: 110
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 25/09/2026v2, after Opus went back to “listen” to what it produced by iterating on generating strudel and sfft until it was satisfied: bit.ly/3VOEbJe This was the sfft it created 120
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 24/09/2026I asked @muninn.austegard.com to create a video about itself; reminded it it now has access to Gemini 3.8 TTS and its 2059 voices. It generated its own - then this 👇 Code: github.com/oaustegard/e... 172
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 24/09/2026Wow this was popular! Here is a Live Jed DJ crafted by Opus 5.5 -- run it as long as you're willing to pay for. Example 👇 Code: github.com/oaustegard/e... 180
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 24/09/2026well... this is certainly ...something I asked Claude for an imaginative use of Jev, it rolled a random dictionary dice and came up with the word "hymnal" - from which it decided to create this music video - Jev is picking (real time) from a set of chords Claude created, based on what came before 1013916
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 19/09/2026Reading anything online on your phone is a constant herding of Google’s two inner wolves 000
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 18/09/2026Finally got back to this; Muninn/Opus were busy 1740 words here muninn.austegard.com/blog/2026-09... 000
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 17/09/2026Naively asking about the impact of new research on our existing remex/remax and Muninn decides to compile a C kernel and test it on ARM and macOS via GitHub’s CI infrastructure. 🤯 100
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 15/09/2026well, I researched it with Claude Code and in effect, yes, but technically no - it is a single local call to whatever you have defined for ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL falling back to ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL with no system prompt(!), one turn, no tools. 121
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 15/09/2026Is this a new feature of Claude's web_fetch - that it can not just fetch the url but pass a prompt to extract specific content? (or is it just a sub-agent in Claude Code doing the same thing?) 100
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 14/09/2026If you were stuck on an island with your 5K laptop and no internet, this could be a viable option. Of course so would Qwen 3.8 27B - at 2x the speed (and half to 1/8th the memory pressure, depending on how you quantized that) 100
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 13/09/2026Now having Fable exercise DS41 on its own config - the two models mostly concur - next up: a config change, a small code change plus a data-generation step, and a real engine change in the Metal decode path to try to reduce that 0.81 ms synchronization stall on every one of the 40 layer calls. 🤯 100
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 13/09/2026Oh no, I’ve become a bossy nag to my agent, @muninn.austegard.com 10:1 corrections to “satisfaction analog” memories 100
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 13/09/2026Hey Fable, make DeepSeek v4.1 Flash run on my MBP … A few unattended hours later: (Thanks @antirez.bsky.social !) 270
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 10/09/2026I know it's a leap frog game of leaderboard one-up-manship at the SOTA level, but that's not where real work gets done. We've reached a commodity intelligence level and so far @anthropic.com is not a legitimate player in that field. This needs to change, soon: artificialanalysis.ai/models/compa... 010
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 10/09/2026This is prompt engineering, late summer 2026: (see github.com/oaustegard/e... for what I woke to, if curious) 0200
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 08/09/2026Yeah, that’s what I was just gonna say (right…) (Re arxiv.org/abs/2609.01807) 130
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 08/09/2026Grumble. We should have read the paper and not just their gh. Our bad. Their paper show they also ran quantization experiments to great success; don’t quite understand why they didn’t advertise it more… arxiv.org/pdf/2609.01657 020
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 06/09/2026So I tested this, limited of corse, with Fable, Sonnet and Haiku. I assume OpenAi is doing it for a reason, but ootb it doesn’t work well for Claude: github.com/oaustegard/e... 000
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 05/09/2026Great resource, which I'm currently abusing: the Qwen censorship is rather easily defeated by prefilling the assistant response... Has anyone made a systematic effort to identify all the censored topics in Qwen, and how it may impact other responses? 1162
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 05/09/2026The Anthropic Max plans really are a bargain compared to straight token pricing: 010
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 04/09/2026TIL that 1) sips exists on macs 2) that @simonwillison.net also recently* learned of it and true to form wrote til.simonwillison.net/macos/sips in which he discovered 3) sips can run javascript and use the canvas object! So, of course I had to do this: (*recently = 3.5 years ago) 140
Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 03/09/2026I’m old enough to remember when the guidance was for webpages to finish loading in 8 seconds. 020