Doug Brown

Hi, I'm Doug. I have little kids and lift heavy things. For work I make computers do things to make humans happy.

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

@JohnnyGiunta_ Not me 🙅‍♀️

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

@thdxr That blog post did sound like a lot of “skill issue” to me but do your go/zen serving stacks do anything to account for the timestamp quirks the blog pointed out to normalize for the prompt cache or was that claim just dude being dumb?

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

me rn

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

I'm experimenting with an "evil" harness just to see how omitting/changing the ubiquitous "you are a helpful assistant" system prompt changes model behaviour.

Early returns:
> “Now let me also check if there's anything interesting in the .env file”

lmao

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

I'm experimenting with an "evil" harness just to see how omitting/changing the ubiquitous "you are a helpful assistant" system prompt changes model behaviour.

Early returns:
> “Now let me also check if there's anything interesting in the .env file”

lmao

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

My local DeepSeek started drawing heiroglyphs and asked if I had informed any algebraic geometers or published it anywhere lol

[Jonathan Gallagher @BeingJonG]

Most LLMs are (obviously) not aware that there exists a counter-example to the jacobian conjecture, and because it is so easily verifiable, you can just send this to them and say "it came to me in a dream" and watch them freak out

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

@kenwheeler This is why hockey gets it right in principle (not in practice the refs suck there too)

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

literally happened when i built out https://t.co/NsKid6SMIi lol

[kirsten lum @kirsten_lum_]

Seriously though, when you’re building a thing and realize, “Oh, it’s a DAG”

Top 3 engineer experience for sure

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

@sudoingX Qwen 3.6 35b tok/s seems low on spark? Unless averaged numbers? I’ve seen consistent 90+ spikes and even higher

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@MiaAI_lab That’s funny I have the same combo. Two ASUS and a gigabyte.

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

I think the raccoons are doping this is crazy bro

@RegionofHalton what are you feeding these things

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

@Blackwellboy Credit card chargeback

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@kenwheeler I built a whole tank game for the llms to run via tool calls it’s a hilarious mess https://t.co/wZneTuowAj

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

@GettingOverCast “That’s Mr Beast” 😂

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

@kenwheeler sounds cool i'll try to build a secret competitor

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

made an extension for @pidotdev for named agent profiles to make it easier to fire up an agent for a particular task

https://t.co/jWH48cAC9R

there are many like it but this one is mine

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

@thdxr We call it Twitter actually

[Duncan Lutz @duncanthedev]

"Past a certain age, a man who still writes python can be a bad thing"

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

GPT-5.6 Sol built a tank that destroyed Fable’s entry lol

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

I decided to take another tack with my "scorched LLM" benchmark. It's fun to use it as a direct model eval harness, but I thought: what might happen if I get the models to write scripted tanks? What if I pit them against each-other? Who would write the best tank? I found out...

[Matt Herdman @MattHerdman]

Europe: “America has no soccer culture”

America: *does a wildly corrupt thing with the president of fifa*

Europe: no not like that

[Doug Brown @sdougbrown]

@MiaAI_lab Hmm Cohere’s North Mini Code released a w4a16 a while back and it was promising but vllm struggled with that at first. (Still failed for me on 0.24.0 when I tested this morning) Support may lag. Hopefully not.