Turns out you can run enormous Mixture-of-Experts on Mac hardware without fitting the whole model in RAM by streaming a subset of expert weights from SSD for each generated token – and people keep finding ways to run bigger models Kimi 2.5 is 1T, but only 32B active so fits 96GB
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Building AI Skills Through Repository Checkout and Automation
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You can see exactly what I did here – I told it to checkout the repo and build the skill itself from that https://
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Claude Chat Skills vs Claude Code Web Interface Differences
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It's a bit confusing that Claude chat has an "add to skills" mechanism now that makes new skills available when you are using the chat interface but, as far as I can tell, Claude Code for web does not – cc @claudeai did I miss something?
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Starlette 1.0 Release: Claude Skills Integration Experiment
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Starlette 1.0 is out! I used this as an opportunity to experiment with Claude Skills, since Claude isn't yet familiar with the (minor) breaking changes in the 1.0 release compared to 0.x
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Starlette Reaches Major Milestone with Community Contributors
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Congratulations to you and to all of the Starlette contributors! Huge milestone
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Legal Arguments Versus Code Testing: Validation Differences
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My general point was that constructing a legal argument isn't testable in the same way that code is – you need to present that evidence in court and see if it passes muster, you don't get to run a test suite
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Claude Code Web Integration: Git Operations Through Custom Proxy
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Dos that work in Claude Code for web? I would expect it to get stuck on the fact that Git operations all run through a custom proxy
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AI Model Inference: Predicting User Demographics from Language Patterns
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When I try it against other people it seems very good at guessing age and location – it will say things like "probably based in Norway given the way they talk about public transport" (made up example but close enough)
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LLM profiling from user comments raises surveillance dystopia concerns
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New surveillance dystopia prompt: try running "Profile this user" against 1,000 comments by someone on Hacker News to see what an LLM can figure out
