Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Got so sick of SMS spam that I vibe coded a replacement app to intercept and screen messages, and in under 2 days it already caught 26 spam/political texts. I'm willing to give up RCS for this (Google doesn't allow third party RCS apps, sadly.) Google is apparently asleep at the wheel. 010
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Really impressed by Qwen 3.8 27B. I loaded up pi with /goal mode, told it to run some speed experiments. It designed, planned, ran overnight, and wrote a full report. It stayed on task through multiple compactions. It patched inference engines to get them running. 🤯 neuralcolumn.com/p/msw8o5ba04... 121
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Hard to believe the 27B local model and 2.4T behemoth are so close together on these charts (reveal at the end) 121
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Reading DeepSeek's agent harness paper is making me wonder what ever happened to Haskell. You don't hear as much about Haskell these days. Monads. 310
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026No I'm talking about a belief beyond general usefulness. What prompted my post was this post by roon who believes in unbounded intelligence, which I think is nonsense, but it is a belief, so I can only sit and wait for it to bend into an s-curve like all else. Many beyond roon believe in this/RSI. 100
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pursuing goal (7d 6h 43m) github.com/ericflo/kiln... 010
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Found the scissor statement. If you think a model release could somehow break the world, but I think that's impossible, we won't ever agree on what to do about it. 010
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Credit where it's due: I really appreciate Anthropic listening, pausing, and hopefully walking back this new policy 000
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This is sad to me on an almost spiritual level. It's pissing in the pool of science and discovery. Anthropic is the most evil AI company. We're on our own, folks. 230
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I thought just like "ping" was nerd lingo that became office lingo, "long poll" was the same. But it's actually "long pole" and it's from U.S. Military. Googled it after I saw Claude spell it this way. Now that I think about it, ping probably came from Navy sonar. www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/o... 000
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026ECHO is such a cool idea, well-explained! The verifier-free experiment at the end just blows my mind. In some ways it reminds me of Meta's Code World Model from last year. I've already informally reproduced the results github.com/microsoft/ec... 000
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Interesting: DeepSeek V4 Flash vs. Qwen 3.6 27B pricing & provider speed anecdotal snapshot. In my opinion, comparable models with quite different tradeoffs. Cost is better than I would expect, and speed is flipped vs. my expectations (considering sparsity of DSV4f) 000
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I have never been able to find better coffee than the Berkeley Blend by Uncommon Grounds. I am not some big coffee knower, but every other bean I've tried, nothing has (yet) tasted better 000
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Did `claude -p` start using API tokens instead of MAX plan tokens? I think it happened in the middle of the night. Because I had a `claude -p` loop running last night, and at 78% usage, it stopped counting against my plan, and now I have $hundreds in API token charges today. WTF! Not a safe platform 010
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026OK this is actually really annoying Claude Code. I set it on a hard task; there was only one message. I'd like those tokens back. 010
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Nice job Codex CLI - hit enter over 4 hours ago and it's still going strong. 010
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Prompt processing (KV prefill) is such a barrier to local LLMs 😥 000
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I modded nanochat to add 6 different curricula of explanatory text to each batch during pre-, mid-, and post-training, like "You are a language model. You process text sequences". It does seem that these explanations have real, measurable effects on model capabilities at all stages. 110
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 22/11/2025This one is wild; makes it seem mundane. Like a throwaway snap you'd take out of the window of an airplane. But there's Earth - wow! 120
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Turns out bf16 sucks, who knew, precision > range github.com/sail-sg/Prec... 011
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Wow! I thought this number would be way lower, like 1-5%! I thought a whole lot more of y'all were wearing contacts and getting lasik. My model of the world was way off, that's kinda neat actually. 000
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 18/10/2025#nokings starting to gather at the Civic Center in SF 141
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Hyperparam sweepin' - first time trying AdEMAMix (runs 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4, 0.2.5) - it's good! 010
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Started this model training yesterday BTW. Custom 500Mtoken post-training dataset that I distilled from GLM-4.5 Air (single turn), K2-Instruct 0905 (multi-turn and instruction following), and gpt-oss-120b (tool calling) - should be a drop-in replacement for Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 010
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 09/09/2025For some reason I just thought of this viral "dystopic internet" image from 16 years ago, went and found it, and it's so interesting. I thought it hyperbolic at the time. Now it seems quaint! Sentiment from back then: www.reddit.com/r/pics/comme... 010
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025The coding agent is Just Like Me (v2_best_really_final) 020
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 09/08/2025OK gpt-5 generated this pretty good satire about itself! 🤣 061
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025It's never going well when "You're absolutely right!" 😂 020
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 13/07/2025e.g. This is SUCH A GOOD POINT-OF-VIEW about open weights! bigeagle.me/2025/07/kimi... 020
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Why is nobody talking about this? H-Net may actually displace the current popular methods of tokenization. It looks like it quite improves data efficiency. And it feels properly bitter lesson pilled. goombalab.github.io/blog/2025/hn... 010
Eric Florenzano @ericflo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025This article, from the XFN Wikipedia page, is such a slice of its time. archive.seattletimes.com/archive/2003... 110