Ozzy Ibhawoh

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[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

We dropped Rust and our tests got 10x faster. Now one skill keeps agents from slowing them back down

The skill: /ruthless-bottleneck-destroyer

Name says it all

Install:

npx skills@latest add CheckPickerUpper/skills

To try it without installing anything:

npx skills@latest use CheckPickerUpper/skills@ruthless-bottleneck-destroyer

Or checkout the skill link in the bio

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@vikhyatk If haskells community would just get a grip it would be the best language ever

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@phlndrws My favourite YouTube channel you always have such an elegant way of using analogies. and breaking down these huge complex concepts

Genuinely a skill In this era

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@quakewang @rednafi I’d be very bullish on Zig. if the founder wasn’t so against AI. I can’t trust Zig. to move with the future if it’s stuck in that mindset

[Da7em @Da7_Tech]

A big Chinese lab reached out to me asking for help distilling Fable into their model. I said no.

I told them to use the millions of books that have no copyright instead. Offered to help pick them and to help train the model a different way. They only wanted distillation, which tells you a lot about the mindset there.

I've worked deep in this field and distillation is real. I wasn't convinced at one point. What I saw changed my mind completely.

I'm the biggest supporter of open source. I'm for releasing weights and for the freedom to research and build, because humanity only grows when knowledge gets shared. But let's be logical.

Nobody will convince me that labs shipping a model every month or less, each one a big leap, now can't ship a better one after three months.

Kimi K3.1 Pro isn't a big leap over Kimi K3 and it's been about 100 days.

DeepSeek still can't put out a respectable Pro model.

Zai used to release their strongest model in under two months. It's been three with nothing.

All I hear about Qwen 4 Max is that it's a letdown.

Kimi K3.1 Pro and DeepSeek Flash both show traces of Astra distillation. The leak showed Moonshot used it, and so did DeepSeek.

If this isn't the effect of Anthropic blocking distillation then what is it?

Chinese labs need to get serious about using the talented researchers they have and give their models an identity. Right now their models at their best are a cheaper alternative. I want them out of that box. I want to see what makes them different.

Anthropic has crossed lines too, no argument there. They destroyed millions of books, human knowledge that was in people's hands, and kept it for themselves. I'll never forgive them for that.

But Chinese labs rely on distillation more than they rely on better data.

I didn't work with them. Transparency and honesty matter to me, like you've known since I started here.

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@kimmonismus Have you used a google model? The last 2 I used were absolutely benchmaxxed slop so idk if they’re waiting because in reality and in practice it’s too slop to drop

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@NithinMKurien I have a huge bias towards languages that KISS, OG go and its philosophy make it the best for me to each their own

Kotlin isn’t too shabby but doesn’t excite me and I’m not as familiar with it so I’d rather spend the time tussling with Odin

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

Some programs don’t mind the occasional Za Warudo, and I’d take that over stop the world compile times any day of the week and twice on Sundays

Also Odin is for when u need the speed

[Nithin @NithinMKurien]

@hypergraphing @CheckPickaUppa @infinterenders Go, really? With its stop-the-world garbage collection pause times, it is not suitable to be used as a systems language.

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

I need someone to articulate why Rust is better when so many of the rewrites don’t even use safe Rust throughout

And compile times become worse with multiple agents

Yet we are still hand waved as if the compiler isn’t literally the biggest bottleneck in the entire language, and worse yet, it’s read as the new language for AI

AI doesn’t need to use the washroom wall rust compiles, so we’re literally stuck waiting, or you get the privilege of splitting crates for fear of compiling for years or managing kache blaze sscache all in a futile attempt to get what languages beside rust get for free

Genuinely, why not just use another language? This is coming from someone who loved Rust, but I had to quit coping about it

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

The one good thing about Rust is that rewriting from Rust is so easy because the biggest blocker to most rewrites is: coping about the amount of time it would take to do so, and the sunkcost fallacy.

but you can never have the sunk cost fallacy when debatjng this issue becsuss long-term you will always be spending more time compiling than if you just rewrote whatever rust project in a proper language once.

Ask me how i know..

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@thsottiaux Unironically and not even perfomatively saying this: just keep them, models, UX and now usage resets are worse than Claude

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@Jawwwn I love the idea “you have to attack both”

I love Karp because to everyone he seems like such a contradiction, but that’s only if you presuppose that everything has to be binary. Let’s wealth tax and fight waste

Let’s Protect Civil Liberties and Fight Terrorism

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@weswinder You're not meant to use it on Max, the price is a lot easier on the eyes when you compare high even to opus

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

Go makes sense, but why C ??? I see everyone saying C++is something to be used now.

Admittedly, I haven't written a single line of C++ code. Ever since I watched that "C++ is the worst language of all time video", I never had a use case and now it just seems like it's everything I hate about languages. Two billion ways to do things and a million and one ways to shoot your leg off

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@rednafi @VicVijayakumar To play Devil's Advocate (And definitely not because I'm debating whether or not to write rewrite one of my apps in Go or another language.)

What do you say to people who say: "But its 1 type system for the whole app, isnt this a benefit thats worthwhile"

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@AcerFur Cmon, you know I meant in terms of what they advertised lol, 5.2 High is the best value model right now

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@kimmonismus The gap just keeps getting bigger and bigger, I'm trying to play devil's advocate for using ChatGPT, but I genuinely starting to see zero use case

[Ozzy Ibhawoh @CheckPickaUppa]

@ThePrimeagen https://t.co/FvjdvaJPQ6

My main strat is throw this at the repo

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