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by monster_truck22 hours ago |
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upvoteby swiftcoder22 hours ago|
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> FB at one point had a very badass engineering culture

Perpetually kneecapped by one of the worst management cultures I've ever seen

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upvoteby fidotron18 hours ago|
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I'm going there: Bosworth is the problem. He should never have got near being CTO.
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upvoteby MengerSponge21 hours ago|
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Would you say those badass engineers were/are managed by Careless People?
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upvoteby swiftcoder21 hours ago|
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My impression is that they had created a system where management cared very deeply about "number go up", and very little about "which number?"
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upvoteby MengerSponge21 hours ago|
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The book title is a reference to The Great Gatsby: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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upvoteby aruggirello21 hours ago|
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> It's better than the benchmark scores seem to indicate compared to Qwen 3.6 27B. I'm very excited for 3.8

Is it worth considering if it's only marginally better than Qwen 3.6 though? Qwen 3.8 27B is almost there, and will probably be better suited as drop-in replacement for 3.6. Not even considering there's probably going to be a 3.8-35B-A3B too - which will have even better performance.

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upvoteby petu19 hours ago|
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Qwen3.6 is very token inefficient with it's thinking. Quantized versions often get into loops.

Glimmer is trained with 4 effort levels, not just thinking on/off. Maybe it's more token efficient in general. There's official 4 bit quantizations with reported 1% loss across 15 benchmarks -- so quants probably work good.

IMO that alone is worth trying for, even if they're otherwise equal.

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upvoteby monster_truck20 hours ago|
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It takes 10 minutes to download and try, any model is worth at least that. In my experience benchmarks are generally dogshit
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upvoteby fidotron19 hours ago|
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FB/Meta have had "don't recruit me" databases for a long time that are very easy to get yourself added to, thankfully.
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upvoteby LorenDB22 hours ago|
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What is the other company that you would never work for?
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upvoteby zImPatrick21 hours ago|
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He said OpenAI in the comment (if I read it correctly)
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upvoteby LorenDB21 hours ago|
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Ah, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out :)
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upvoteby bko21 hours ago|
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Meta doesn't need to be "redeemed". They have two of the most popular social media apps in the world. And theyll prob survive without ever having you work there
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upvoteby JKCalhoun19 hours ago|
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I read that as, "Meta is a piece of shit but they're rich and don't care."

(Which I guess I agree with.)

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upvoteby bko17 hours ago|
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Should have clarified. I meant my comment to be read as [random online person] is not particularly valuable and his comment gasing himself up as a high value meta acquisiton is polluting online discourse.

Tech equivalent of "I wouldn't date Sydney Sweeney, I'm not into blondes". Cool story bro

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upvoteby gosub10021 hours ago|
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Mind telling me roughly what you had on your resume that had meta /fb hounding you for a job? ( Of course so I can avoid having this situation happen to me, naturally)
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upvoteby monster_truck20 hours ago|
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Simply don't get flown out by IG to be their first mobile dev.
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