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jsulz @jsulz.com · 13/10/2025

There is nothing "Fun Sized" about the smaller Milk Duds box. A true horror story, that is.

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

jsulz @jsulz.com · 03/10/2025

Today, we've finalized this first phase of migrating the Hub to a new, modern storage system. One that's built to scale with AI builders of today and tomorrow. huggingface.co/blog/from-fi... There's still a lot of work to do, but we're excited for what's next. 💪

From Files to Chunks: Improving HF Storage Efficiency

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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 · 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.

Retroist @retroist.com · 31/08/2025

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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...

jsulz @jsulz.com · 30/07/2025

This also serves as a reminder to myself that I owe a round of "Thank you"s to all the talented designers I've worked with over the years.

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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).

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.

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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A sneaky part of making this all work is our backward compatibility with Git LFS. This allows us to roll out a significant protocol change without forcing workflow changes We call this the Git LFS Bridge internally, and like our migration process, it's power is in its simplicity.

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You can see over the past few months some of the biggest migrations show up in our cluster throughput. Each spike corresponds to a significant migration (where we download from LFS and upload to Xet) with the baseline steadily increasing to just shy of 100 Gb/s

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The engine behind moving from Git LFS to Xet is our migration process. It's simple, powerful, and has moved well over a dozen PB just by itself. Here's a high level view of how it works.

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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...

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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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 · 04/07/2025

Further proof that cute animals are the great distractors.

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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

How does one test the quality of the tapes? Are you forced into watching each one, end-to-end?

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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

I do not, but if a cute dog showed up and asked for treats, I would go broke. Everyone has their weakness.

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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These are hard numbers to put into context, but let's try. The latest run of Common Crawl was 471 TB. We now have ~32 crawls stored in Xet. At peak upload speed we could move the latest crawl into Xet in about two hours. 🤯🤯🤯

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Meanwhile, our migrations have pushed throughput to numbers that are bonkers. In June, we hit upload speeds of 577Gb/s (crossing 500Gb/s for the first time).

Xet content addressed store service moving bytes from one place to another at the speed of light.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/06/2025

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

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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

And BOTH of the above can be true and we can ALSO agree that @petebuttigieg.bsky.social having a Substack is weird.

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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 · 22/06/2025

Totally. So weird. Makes me think of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal... TL;DR, in the words of Rustin Cohle, "Time is a flat circle."

en.wikipedia.org

Eternal return - Wikipedia

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jsulz @jsulz.com · 22/06/2025

Yeah; the experience provides a lot of clarity. I'm highly skeptical of how I was using my time before having a child.

jsulz @jsulz.com · 20/06/2025

Congratulations! Hope you're getting some sleep in here and there 😀

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jsulz @jsulz.com · 19/06/2025

Love this line (and so true), "it is much easier to bring our compute to data than it is to bring our data to compute"

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.