Indeed, this is also the case for anything packaged with #Nix; we have over 99% reproducibility and are not planning on giving that up. Also, Nix forbids network access during compilation; there will be no clandestine queries to OpenAI.
it very much fucks with me that there’s a nixpkgs working group dedicated to making NixOS an attractive platform for running LLM code. I’m guessing it comes down to two things: nix actually is very good at packaging the hundreds of specifically pinned dependencies your average garbage LLM project needs to run, and operating in the functional programming space makes these asshole grifters feel smarter (see also all the folks who contributed nothing but crypto miners to nixpkgs during that bubble)
Let me know @corbin@defcon.social if you actually get LLMs to produce useful code locally. I’ve done maybe four or five experiments and they’ve all been grand disappointments. This is probably because I’m not asking questions easily answered by Stack Overflow or existing GitHub projects; LLMs can really only model the trite, not the novel.
@corbin I’m curious how they deal with the Go builder (not compiler specifically) and all its signature verification hoo-hah. There’s ways around that (and those are consistent with “trust nobody”) but it’s not usual case, and not tested nearly as hard as the default path. You can use your own builder, too, that’s also an option (and now I wonder, could we get the Go builder to export a “build plan” for other-tool consumption?)
Indeed, this is also the case for anything packaged with #Nix; we have over 99% reproducibility and are not planning on giving that up. Also, Nix forbids network access during compilation; there will be no clandestine queries to OpenAI.
it very much fucks with me that there’s a nixpkgs working group dedicated to making NixOS an attractive platform for running LLM code. I’m guessing it comes down to two things: nix actually is very good at packaging the hundreds of specifically pinned dependencies your average garbage LLM project needs to run, and operating in the functional programming space makes these asshole grifters feel smarter (see also all the folks who contributed nothing but crypto miners to nixpkgs during that bubble)
@corbin I got a 96GB laptop just so I could run (some) LLMs w/o network access, I’m sure that will be standard by 2025.🤪
Let me know @corbin@defcon.social if you actually get LLMs to produce useful code locally. I’ve done maybe four or five experiments and they’ve all been grand disappointments. This is probably because I’m not asking questions easily answered by Stack Overflow or existing GitHub projects; LLMs can really only model the trite, not the novel.
@corbin I’m curious how they deal with the Go builder (not compiler specifically) and all its signature verification hoo-hah. There’s ways around that (and those are consistent with “trust nobody”) but it’s not usual case, and not tested nearly as hard as the default path. You can use your own builder, too, that’s also an option (and now I wonder, could we get the Go builder to export a “build plan” for other-tool consumption?)