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I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job I assumed needed a frontier model, and it finished in 30 minutes
www.xda-developers.com/qwen-3-8-27b-reverse-engineering-job-frontier-model/
128 GB of unified memory
I thought I was asking a lot when work asked me to pick a computer (with no guidelines) and I asked for a 36GB MacBook and justified it by saying I needed to run local models to save money. I didn’t ask for nearly enough. To its credit it does run local models fast, but it’s very limited in context window. It starts slowing down long before hitting context sizes I hit in frontier models.
I was issued a laptop with 32GB for standard office work. 15 years ago our devs had 128GB. Of course, that was before COVID and AI insanity.
What in the fuck bloated skylab hokey ass shit were your devs making 15 years ago that demanded that kind of rocketship?
Lunchtime video games.
But also SharePoint, virtual. Bloated crap.
SharePoint sucks so much. So often elements just do not load. No search bar.
Genuinely hate the existence of bug tech but I cannot fathom how microslop are this big anymore, their product is awful nothing is optimised or decent it is all heaps of legacy bullshit.