“AI tools are great, but only if they actually help, rather than cause unnecessary pain and pointless make-believe work,” he wrote. “Feel free to use them, but use them in a way that is productive and makes for a better experience.”

That’s a pretty nuanced view. I agree, but I’m not sure how many people of this community do.

Sure! How much experience do you have with LLMs?

I have a Radeon RX 7800 XT.

Qwen 3.5-9b is blazingly fast on it. However while it’s its impressive for its size, it has its limitations. Complex tasks with several steps are too much for it.

So now I run the 3.6-35B model with llama.cpp It’s too big for my VRAM so I had to split it: everything that doesn’t fit on the graphics’s card runs in the normal RAM. That slows everything down, but with the right flags I get a bit over 20 tokens/s.

If you have problems with speed and you’re using ollama I would replace it with something faster like llama.cpp.

I recommend Qwen3.6, either the 27B dense or the 35B MoE model. Both outstanding for local models.

They can also make you smarter if you use them right. Key is to use local models and not giving the techbros any money.

Various AI features for Ubuntu Linux are expected to land over the next year with a bias on local inferencing by default. Canonical engineers will be working on integrating agentic workflows into Ubuntu for those that want it. There are areas being explored for AI use on Ubuntu both for the desktop as well as for Ubuntu servers such as for assisting in interpreting system logs

Sounds actually reasonable. As long as it doesn’t get shoved down the users throat it could turn out fine. And sifting through logs is in fact a good task for LLMs in my opinion.

Take that, flat earthers!!!

Unrealistic. They hide that unsubscribe button or make it not functional.

Carbon monoxide sends its regard. Don‘t run a fuel emergency generator indoors.

Reminds me of William Gibsons „The peripheral“ where different powers of a dystopian future try to manipulate the economy of the past in the race to give their party an advantage.

Good book, I recommend it. The series is okay, but not as good as the book.