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@jsulz.com
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I like pretty things, functional things, funny things, food things, and computer things. Former: Storage infra things 🤗 @hf.co, Devops things @lexblog.bsky.social and devex/cloud infra things at @pantheon.io

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jsulz @jsulz.com · 18/11/2025
Sometimes I am struck by the weirdness of our dystopian present.
ChatGPT feedback message.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 13/10/2025
Great piece from @frimelle.bsky.social and @giadapistilli.com Our use of AI is still in the early stages and none of what is to come is preordained. We can paint a different future for ourselves that is better than the dreary present of Web 2.0.
techpolicy.press
Before AI Exploits Our Chats, Let’s Learn from Social Media Mistakes | TechPolicy.Press
Privacy in the age of conversational AI is a governance choice, write Hugging Face's Lucie-Aimé Kaffee and Giada Pistilli.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 09/10/2025
Beautiful post from @yewjin.bsky.social "Success is a lousy navigation system for the second half of life." Potentially a lousy system for any half of your life, but more pressing as time goes on.
yewjin.substack.com
Note to my present self
On walking away from success, wandering with purpose, and the things worth not scaling
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 08/10/2025
I like this very much. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
theoatmeal.com
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 03/10/2025
The Hub is on 100% on Xet. 🚀 A little over a year ago, @hf.co acquired XetHub to unlock the next phase of growth in models and datasets. huggingface.co/blog/xethub-... In April, there were 1,000 Hugging Face repos on Xet. Now every repo (over 6M) on the Hub is on Xet.
Graph showing the conversion of Hugging Face repositories from LFS storage to Xet storage.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 30/09/2025
Just a reminder that this is a legit status code
developer.mozilla.org
418 I'm a teapot - HTTP | MDN
The HTTP 418 I'm a teapot status response code indicates that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot. A combined coffee/tea pot that is temporarily out of coffee should...
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 24/09/2025
The rise of AI-generated workslop.
hbr.org
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 18/09/2025
Nice breakdown by the @anthropic.com team of a few recent infra bugs that led to the worst nightmare of any engineer: "random, inconsistent degradation." Good reminder that these genies still rely on solid infrastructure, good evaluations, and constant monitoring.
anthropic.com
A postmortem of three recent issues
This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened, why it took time to fix, and what we're changing.
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Retroist @retroist.com · 31/08/2025
Decades later and Garfield has still got it.
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Anthropic is the only leading AI lab to not release a reasonable open weights model. Is notable that pretty much everyone has a touchpoint here now.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 30/07/2025
Hard not to 🙄 at this section of Zuck's vision of "Personal Superintelligence" "Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."
meta.com
Personal Superintelligence
Explore Meta's vision of personal superintelligence, where AI empowers individuals to achieve their goals, create, connect, and lead fulfilling lives. Insights from Mark Zuckerberg on the future of AI...
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 30/07/2025
We just crossed 1 million repositories backed by Xet storage on @hf.co I celebrated by reviving the early 2000s web design aesthetics that I love so much. Here's our dashboard showing our progress converting the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (and demonstrating my questionable design sensibilities).
huggingface.co
Ready Xet Go - a Hugging Face Space by jsulz
This app helps you monitor the progress of migrating repositories to Xet, showing you stats and charts on migration status and file types.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 29/07/2025
Perhaps the bitter lesson about all organizational design is that all you need is a garbage can of chaos.
oneusefulthing.org
The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Does process matter? We are about to find out.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 16/07/2025
Loved this post from @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social "There have been a series of experiences that have helped me realize more of my agency, but I think the most important one was becoming a father" 💯💯💯💯
henrikkarlsson.xyz
On agency
Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 15/07/2025
We've moved the first 20PB from Git LFS to Xet on @hf.co without any interruptions. Now we're migrating the rest of the Hub. We got this far by focusing on the community first. Here's a deep dive on the infra making this possible and what's next: huggingface.co/blog/migrati...
huggingface.co
Migrating the Hub from Git LFS to Xet
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 15/07/2025
A look into monitoring/observability at @hf.co Some fun tidbits in here, like how we use our NAT gateway as a cost sentinel. Cloud infra costs are no joke.
huggingface.co
Three Mighty Alerts Supporting Hugging Face’s Production Infrastructure
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
465 people. 122 languages. 58,185 annotations! FineWeb-C v1 is complete! Communities worldwide have built their own educational quality datasets, proving that we don't need to wait for big tech to support languages. Huge thanks to all who contributed! huggingface.co/blog/davanst...
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 07/07/2025
"A close friend has used em-dashes since our days in college, and yet every time they include one in a text to me, I can't help but think, "Did an LLM write this?"
msukhareva.substack.com
The mystery of em‑dashes: part two with quantitative evidence
A couple of weeks ago I made an assumption: the rise of em‑dashes in AI‑generated text happened because model providers started scanning older, pre‑Kindle books.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 04/07/2025
Further proof that cute animals are the great distractors.
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Drew Breunig @dbreunig.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
More context, more problems. www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/h...
dbreunig.com
How Long Contexts Fail
Taking care of your context is the key to building successful agents. Just because there’s a 1 million token context window doesn’t mean you should fill it.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 01/07/2025
On using AI for personal messages: “We want to just write a prompt and have it done. And there’s something that we are losing – it’s the process. And in the process, there’s many important aspects. It is the co-construction of ourselves with our activities”
theguardian.com
‘Hey man, I’m so sorry for your loss’: should you use AI to text?
Artificial intelligence has entered the personal chat. What does that say about human relationships?
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 28/06/2025
Privacy concerns are legitimate and need to be addressed, but a larger part of me is concerned about the social, cultural, and cognitive impacts of a "magic genie bot that is going to take care of the exigencies of life"
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 27/06/2025
What happens when you give an LLM a high-level objective to manage a small business and an incomplete toolset to achieve its aims? It makes questionable inventory and sales decisions, loses most of its money, and has an identity crisis. Not *so* far off from how I would perform.
anthropic.com
Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 27/06/2025
And so the march to the season of darkness begins.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 25/06/2025
Publishers are spending time and money on AI chatbots that nobody will use. If AI succeeds, here's why it will live in your browser and operating system - and what I think news orgs should build instead. werd.io/ai-wont-live...
werd.io
AI won't live on publisher sites
The case for moving AI down the stack
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 26/06/2025
It's been a bit since I took a step back and looked at our progress to migrate @hf.co from Git LFS to Xet, but every time I do it's mind boggling. A month ago there were 5,500 users/orgs on Xet with 150K repos and 4PB. Today? 🤗 700,000 users/orgs 📈 350,000 repos 🚀 15PB
View of Xet's S3 bucket - lotsa bytes.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/06/2025
Interoperability xkcd.com/3105/
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH BLACK HAT: Compatibility and interoperability are so important. (2) [Black hat shows diagram to two people] BLACK HAT: For example, most subway rails are 143.5cm apart. But many roller coasters use a narrower 110cm gauge. (3) BLACK HAT: For the last few years, our company has been quietly retrofitting roller coasters to use 143.5cm tracks. (4) BLACK HAT: Soon, we can begin Phase 2. PERSON 2: Maybe interoperability is actually bad. BLACK HAT: If you listen to the destination announcement while boarding, you’ll be fine.
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Reihaneh Rabbany @reirab.com · 19/06/2025
If you are interested in a unified collection of common misinformation detection benchmarks, check out our recent repo @hf.co
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 25/06/2025
"All of these jobs are ultimately about trust and responsibility. Not only does the task need to be done, someone needs to take responsibility for what was delivered."
togelius.blogspot.com
What is automatable and who is replaceable? Thoughts from my morning commute
It's an interesting exercise to think about jobs, or tasks within jobs, that could in principle be replaced by automation but for some reaso...
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 25/06/2025
Stumbled across deepwiki.com last night. Great resource for anyone trying to get up to speed on an open source repo. Does a pretty good job of explaining the xet-core codebase and Xet deduplication tech on Hugging Face deepwiki.com/huggingface/... (probably better than I have 😅)
deepwiki.com
DeepWiki | AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo
DeepWiki provides up-to-date documentation you can talk to, for every repo in the world. Think Deep Research for GitHub - powered by Devin.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 20/06/2025
A bit of reflection on being a new parent; mostly on my perception of time as a new father. TL;DR - I have less time 🤪 (but more purpose).
jsulz.com
Six Months as a Dad (Alt Title: What is Time?)
This post was initially titled, “Four Months as a Dad”, which should tell you everything you need to know about how being a dad is going for me. A few years ago I had a passing interest in how memory ...
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 17/06/2025
Forest bathing. A common Washington state pastime.
en.wikipedia.org
Shinrin-yoku - Wikipedia
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 17/06/2025
I've been working on cutting down my, "I'm sorry, I meant to be more clear in my last prompt" messages too. There is a price to being polite. Good breakdown by Julien Delavande, @sashamtl.bsky.social, and Régis Pierrard.
huggingface.co
Saying Thank You to a LLM Isn't Free — Measuring the Energy Cost of Politeness
A Blog post by Julien Delavande on Hugging Face
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 13/06/2025
Just get the Windows box back up and running to troubleshoot some user reports about slow downloads in WSL. It'll be easy. I *won't* spend the entire morning downloading software and rebooting the machine.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 12/06/2025
Learned GCP was out by seeing my dog door monitor was broken (backed by a cloud SQL instance). How am I going to replay/track the events of her going in and out the dog door during this outage? These are the important questions.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 12/06/2025
🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵
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pngwn @pngwn.at · 11/06/2025
As a side-effect of the @gradio-hf.bsky.social hackathon, we may have just accidentally created the largest open source collection of MCP servers. If you are curious about what can be done with MCP you should really check them out, it’s pretty wild: huggingface.co/spaces?filte...
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 10/06/2025
A philosophy to live by (also, check out those beards 🧔🧔)
en.wikipedia.org
Unix philosophy - Wikipedia
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 05/06/2025
"It started a few years ago when Peter was raised to the rank of department head and was careless enough to leave a portrait of himself floating around." How one man's face came to be plastered all over the Bell Labs campus (including on a watertower) during the early days of Unix development.
spinroot.com
PJW's Face
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 01/06/2025
Awk is for kids and adults alike, just like A&W's root beer floats.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 31/05/2025
I misspelled avocado once while grocery shopping. Now I only buy avacardos.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 27/05/2025
I've seen a few posts like these recently. It's disappointing. In general, I'm a social media lurker, but I'm here because there are some great minds posting interesting things. Without forums like these, there is no good way for me to hear these voices.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 27/05/2025
New users and organizations can say goodbye to LFS on Hugging Face; Xet is now the default storage for new builders on the Hub 🚀 🚀 🚀 Just sign up for an account, create a new repo, pip install huggingface_hub and you're off! huggingface.co/changelog/xe...
huggingface.co
Xet is now the default storage option for new users and organizations
Hugging Face Changelog - Xet is now the default storage option for new users and organizations
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 21/05/2025
Continuing to move all the LFS bytes into Xet storage on Hugging Face! Currently up to: 🤗 5,500 users and orgs with Xet access 🚀 150,000 Xet-backed models and datasets 🤯 4+ PB managed by Xet How much more to go? If the Hub's top storage users are any indication: many bytes
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 08/05/2025
Qwen is now on Xet on the Hugging Face Hub 🎉 I'm a little star-struck to be honest 🤩 Qwen has 260+ model repos that are regularly among the top trending/downloaded models and we get to serve the bytes from the Hub to your computer.
huggingface.co
Qwen (Qwen)
Org profile for Qwen on Hugging Face, the AI community building the future.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 04/05/2025
Before this year, I didn't think about S3.Today, I think about it all the time. Here's a beautiful guest post from Andy Warfield on @werner.social's All Things Distributed about how one engineer (Warfield) came to understand (as much as one can) S3.
allthingsdistributed.com
Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 30/04/2025
Crossed some major milestones in moving @hf.co repos from LFS to Xet: 👷 Over 2,000 builders and nearing 100 organizations with access 🚀 70,000 model and dataset repositories on Xet 🤯 1.4 petabytes managed in Xet storage
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 22/04/2025
This is obvious, but if people broadly rely on a black box to give them answers that help them understand the world, whoever controls the black box controls those answers and therefore the understanding that comes from them. Openness is safety.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 16/04/2025
The Lovelace 2.0 Test of Artificial Creativity and Intelligence “tell a story in which a boy falls in love with a girl, aliens abduct the boy, and the girl saves the world with the help of a talking cat.” Change that 🐱 to a 🐶 and I'd read that story any day.
arxiv.org
The Lovelace 2.0 Test of Artificial Creativity and Intelligence
Observing that the creation of certain types of artistic artifacts necessitate intelligence, we present the Lovelace 2.0 Test of creativity as an alternative to the Turing Test as a means of determini...
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