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Gemini 4 Argon

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  1. taylorfinley · · focus · HN ↗
    Ten days ago I had an experience with Gemini 3.8 flash that made me wonder if I was being routed to a different model under test. I was trying to use rocm with llama.cpp on my 128gb Strix Halo but could only get it to run Vulkan. I pasted the error message into agy and it proceeded to attach GDB to my GPU driver, reverse-engineer the kernel queue ioctl interface, and author an LD_PRELOAD C shim to get ROCm llama.cpp working on my Strix Halo. My jaw was hanging open the whole time.

    Edit to add the fix: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;birep&#x2F;6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c351" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;birep&#x2F;6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c3...

    1. spankalee · · focus · HN ↗
      3.8 Flash is just quite good, and so is the Antigravity harness.

      I use a mix of Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini holds it&#x27;s own. Especially in writing, frontend, and sysadmin work. agy for configuring a NixOS system has been truly incredible.

      1. mapontosevenths · · focus · HN ↗
        Even if agy was the best (it&#x27;s not, and is missing basic features) you wouldn&#x27;t rather have a choice?

        I cancelled Ultra because they forced me into their harness like I should adapt to them, rather than the other way around.

        1. gchamonlive · · focus · HN ↗
          I&#x27;m cowboying Gemini on oh-my-pi. Been running OK so far, hopefully I won&#x27;t get banned, and if so hopefully I&#x27;ll only lose access to the models, not the storage -- while models are a sort of commodity, my data isn&#x27;t.
          1. ForHackernews · · focus · HN ↗
            Careful, if they ban your Google account, they might ban you from everything: gmail, google drive, adwords, app engine, youtube, voice, android...
            1. gchamonlive · · focus · HN ↗
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              1. ajolly · · focus · HN ↗
                No, Google family now shares limits across all your accounts.
                1. gchamonlive · · focus · HN ↗
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