How to train your own Jev for $17

kept by eddie sep 24

The post shows how to fine‑tune a Jev‑like classifier on Qwen3.5 4B using open datasets for about $17 and deploy it on Together AI.

Why Open-Source Models Haven't Killed the Big Dogs
Open-source models remain costlier to serve reliably due to infrastructure, utilization, and operational overhead, making hosted APIs from OpenAI and Anthropic more economical despite free model weights.
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Yes, AGI Can Happen - A Computational Perspective
Contra Tim Dettmers, Dan Fu argues current AI systems significantly underutilize hardware, models lag hardware buildout, and multiple paths exist to useful AGI.
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Mechanical sympathy
Good engineers possess mechanical sympathy—an intuitive feel for affordances and boundaries—which current AI coding agents lack, leading to context-blind fixes and poor product design.
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Astral to Join OpenAI
Astral, the company behind Python tools Ruff and uv, has agreed to join OpenAI's Codex team to continue building open-source tooling at the frontier of AI and software development.
also on uv, #ai-coding, #developer-tools