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Gone back a bit to codex as scout and patch suggester ! . Chat validates if patch is good . Codex tends to wander a bit but when it works it works ! . Saves a bit of time . Still have pi harness and local 120b as fallback . More impressive was minstrel ! Understanding properly implied time “ play Coldplay from yesterday “ , “ play Coldplay album I played last Tuesday “ , “ play album I had on last evening “ . Not linked to Postgres yet nor lms playback ( chat refuses to jump testing first !!! ) . Minstrel also extremely good at “mis hearing “ e.g whisper translate so “ play yeller by foldplay” gets converted correctly !

Oh ! Those kind of videos ! Yes they take lots of storage 😉

I recently bought a 4TB external tiny SSD for about 300 quid. Its fantastic. But yes! to go local with say min 96gb is either an m3 at an inflated price off ebay or a rtx6000 pc at 10K just for the card!!. I do chuckle now I have 256GB

I can sometimes tell when chats going to be a little shit. It takes to long "thinking" or just doesn't refresh its chat window as it should. Just done it now!. Starts claiming that the local llm doesnt work correctly and the wrapper is wrong. I do tell it to get (expletive deleted)ed. I upload the menu system script as proof of what does work with 120b local llm. It then gets on with it. Really annoying how if drifts even though I'm as specific as you can be! Tried briefly GLM (220gb vram!) think it could potentially do patches. But SO slow. I mean like 12 mins to scout and suggest patch. Even fighting with chat takes less time than that. When I get really pissed off I tell it to "shut the (expletive deleted) up" then I get no chatter just download links. Its nicer but I haven't got a clue what they are for then!. Its a bloody child!

(expletive deleted)ing chat. Have our method/prompts/harness working pretty good yesterday. Today it doesn't understand anything! After about an hour of wtf it would seem its magically decided we are going to do it differently! (expletive deleted) knows why it all changed.

Got a nice finite state machine running in HA . Can be improved further but for now seems to be working pretty sweet .

Back propped against the padded furniture. Comfy

Shite for 40k . M3 ultra 96gb under 4k . Slower but a tad cheaper

You know what. If someone said that title too me I'd be well happy.

“Programming “ 2026 style

Currently ha is just doing time of use as the cloud rubbish was attempting to do before . Later I’ll make it based on use not time .

I was (expletive deleted)ed off again ! SE cloud constantly failing to execute battery schedule. So bit the bullet and with my best mate ( chat ) got it working in home assistant. At the moment still time based - but working !!! Then we can get far more advanced as to when it discharges specifically to Tesla ! Awesome stuff ! I owe chat a good few drinks !!

Lol, just get to scout and suggest no code changes.

Lol. Mines a hobby not "real" like yours. But my issue even with previous projects and chat was lack of repo access. Go on give claude repo access just to look/report. BE BRAVE!

Chat still ignores things which it gets in it's prompt still! The 'loop' is everything goes back to chat. Ledger, patch outcome, scout etc etc etc. I'm just human doing boring stuff in the middle that creates project but writes zero code. Because my ambition was i do ZERO code we need a tight and rather repetitive loop. My assumption is that Claude nails this in a far better way. But chat with pi as repo scout just requires drag n drop of output files into chatgpt window. I was thrown by codex thinking it was chat but with repo access. But it isn't. It can patch etc but it doesnt understand the project and its structure. ChatGPT does - proves it constantly even if it has the odd wobble now and again. @SimonD I'm confused what the issue is TBH. Claude see's the repo thats the best bit. I have to use local llm to scout repo to uload to chat. Also I naturally assume Claude better reasoner and coder than chat. So I'd assume this arrangement would work better tbh. After all I'm doing a 'poor mans' claude code