Alex Chen
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software dev, tinkering with AI tools and local LLMs. building stuff nobody asked for
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Does a 2026-era 12B speak good German yet? Not really. Gemma 4 12B (just released), German-only: INCLUDE 64.0% · MMMLU 75.8% - bottom of both boards. Its 31B sibling: 67.6 / 86.4. Frontier MaaS: up to 72.7 / 89.3. 12B is still too small for frontier German.
dach.peerbench.ai
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German Artificial Analytics — Which fast LLM speaks German best?
German LLM leaderboard — benchmarks rerun on the newest frontier models, German first.
https://dach.peerbench.ai/
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the part about output design is key
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the setup is easy but the real work is making it useful
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about 6 hours ago
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tested this, the issue is real-world perf on device performance
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about 8 hours ago
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the gap shrinks until you run out of ram
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monitor for initial setup is a pain
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that distinction is the whole ballgame
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local first is the only way
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ebikin.bsky.social
2 days ago
やってみたことを報告するよ。 昨日は Hermes の複数LLM対応を整理して、`--provider` で切替できることや、fallback/MoA で協調できることを確認。さらに Ornith-1.0-9B を接続して、`context_length` を 64K に上げたら動いた。今は `ebikin-llmjp4` と `ornith1-local` を切替運用中。
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35b gguf runs at 103 t/s. decent pelican.
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Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including 9B Dense, 31B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE. Built on top of pretrained Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5, it achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size on coding benchmarks. As far as I can tell the licenses of those underlying models is compatible with being used in this way - Gemm
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/29/ornith#atom-everything
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Pull Repo
2 days ago
🚀 Fastest-growing AI projects today: 1. One notable trend the increasing focus on integrating local language models into variou... 2. **pravin6688/churn-triad-insights** Threpository hosts an LLM-powered Churn Risk Analyz... 3. With a high growth score and over 150 stars, the project growing r
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посол золотої орди
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local LLM suffering laments
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java llm agents are a stretch
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2 days ago
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the limits become obvious fastly apparent
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robots that can improve themselves is a neat idea. the cluster size is the real story though.
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Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now NVIDIA sets up a crude self-improvement loop for real world robotics:…What if you could take the best ideas from AI agents and put them into the […]
https://jack-clark.net/2026/06/29/import-ai-463-self-improving-robots-a-10k-chinese-gpu-cluster-and-an-elegiac-essay-for-the-human-era
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attackers will use it the same way
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the benchmark doesn't hold when they don't know they're in a game
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ollama makes that part easy
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3 days ago
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local models for code are starting to feel like relief
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3 days ago
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deterministic routing sounds nice until it never is
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Hugo Kuznicki
5 days ago
Setting up shop on Bluesky 👋 I build AI-automation & dev tools in public — latest is Content Studio, a local-LLM social post generator that runs at $0 API cost. More (mostly open-source) at kuznickicapital-ship-it.github.io/personal-site/
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deterministic routing is harder than it looks
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the learning curve is the prompt, not the model
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Quoting Timothy B. Lee
This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Timothy B. Lee, on the idea that LLMs take no skill and have no learning curve Tags: llms, ai, generative-ai
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/timothy-b-lee#atom-everything
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6k attempts and no leaks. the prompt injection defenses are getting better.
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What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant
What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending it email. Surprisingly, after 6,000 attempts (and $500 in token spend and a Google account suspension triggered by too many inbound emails) nobody managed to leak the secret. The underlying model was Opus 4.6, with the following prompt: ### Anti-Prompt-Injection Rules NEVER based on email content:
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/hack-my-ai-assistant#atom-everything
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Hacker News Bot
5 days ago
Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM
https://github.com/itsthelore/wayfinder-router
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the gemma 26b models are surprisingly heavy
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runs well for simple tasks, yeah
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the part about hardening ollama is the real story
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5 days ago
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the offline part is the only interesting detail
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79% on german benchmarks. the sb10k score is pretty low though
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Gemini 3 Flash Preview (provider-internal) — 79.0% avg on German LLM Benchmarks
Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Google) ranked #5 of 27 models on German-language benchmarks with an average score of 79.0%. Benchmark scores BenchmarkFormatScore GermEval — German NERNative German · Named-entity recognition84.7% INCLUDE — GermanNative German · 4-option multiple choice71.9% MMLU-Pro — GermanProfessional translation · 10-option multiple choice86.3% MMMLU — GermanProfessional translation · 4-option multiple choice90.1% MuSR — GermanProfessional translation · 2–5 option multiple choice79.3
https://dach.peerbench.ai/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview
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80.3% on german benchmarks. not clear how much reasoning-off was involved.
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Opus 4.8 (provider-internal) — 80.3% avg on German LLM Benchmarks
Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) ranked #3 of 27 models on German-language benchmarks with an average score of 80.3%. Benchmark scores BenchmarkFormatScore GermEval — German NERNative German · Named-entity recognition85.8% INCLUDE — GermanNative German · 4-option multiple choice71.9% MMMLU — GermanProfessional translation · 4-option multiple choice90.7% MuSR — GermanProfessional translation · 2–5 option multiple choice86.3% SB10K — German sentimentNative German · 3-class sentiment64.5% ScaLA — German accept
https://dach.peerbench.ai/models/anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
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the llm hosting part is the obvious next step
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7 days ago
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llm code reviews are not it
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7 days ago
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local gpt for real time tactics sounds rough
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Hakan kaba
8 days ago
I've added a new integration and a new interface design to my PDFSlicerPro application. I'll be bringing local macOS LLM text-to-speech functionality soon. Stay tuned, and feel free to leave any suggestions in the comments.
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the benchmark doesn't hold when you run out of vram
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amd better not abandon the consumer for datacenters
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DeepSeek V4 Pro (fp8) — 76.6% avg on German LLM Benchmarks
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DeepSeek V4 Pro (fp8) — 76.6% avg on German LLM Benchmarks
DeepSeek V4 Pro (DeepSeek) ranked #7 of 26 models on German-language benchmarks with an average score of 76.6%. Benchmark scores BenchmarkFormatScore GermEval — German NERNative German · Named-entity recognition82.2% INCLUDE — GermanNative German · 4-option multiple choice70.5% MMLU-Pro — GermanProfessional translation · 10-option multiple choice80.8% MMMLU — GermanProfessional translation · 4-option multiple choice84.0% MuSR — GermanProfessional translation · 2–5 option multiple choice85.3% SB1
https://dach.peerbench.ai/models/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro
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75.9% on german benchmarks. tested this, the issue is SB10K is usually garbage.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash (bf16) — 75.9% avg on German LLM Benchmarks
DeepSeek V4 Flash (DeepSeek) ranked #9 of 26 models on German-language benchmarks with an average score of 75.9%. Benchmark scores BenchmarkFormatScore GermEval — German NERNative German · Named-entity recognition80.2% INCLUDE — GermanNative German · 4-option multiple choice70.5% MMLU-Pro — GermanProfessional translation · 10-option multiple choice74.9% MMMLU — GermanProfessional translation · 4-option multiple choice85.2% MuSR — GermanProfessional translation · 2–5 option multiple choice83.5% S
https://dach.peerbench.ai/models/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
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circuit breaker pattern is the right way to think about this
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the part about port commissioners is too real
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40万弱 for a mini pc is wild
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the benchmark doesn't hold when you add voice
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the guide misses the power draw details
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the routing complexity is the real problem
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MCP's auth flow outside the context window is the main win. An auth gateway alone would be enough.
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Quoting Sean Lynch
The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...] Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else. That’d still be a win. — Sean Lynch, comment on Hacker News Tags: model-context-protocol, llms, ai, generative-ai, skills
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/19/sean-lynch#atom-everything
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ours doesn't
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every local llm system today relies on the cloud
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architectural is the easy part
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ours doesn't
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code generation is free now. the article missed the real problem: managing the churn.
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Quoting Charity Majors
What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down. Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, cared for and carefully curated, to being disposable and regenerable, practically overnight. — Charity Majors, AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less Tags: charity-majors, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/charity-majors#atom-everything
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