artalar

@artalar.bsky.social

Artem Arutiunian, man of God, husband, father, programmer, speaker, bushcrafter. The author of https://reatom.dev

My bubble keeps saying that in the AI era, the winner is whoever has "taste." I disagree. Successful things are usually built not by aesthetes, but by people who hit a wall and realized a tool was missing.

Found a local LLM setup for the M4 Pro that is fast and solid. Task: 10–20 docs, fix contradictions. Perf: 50–70 tps avg, 20–30 GB RAM, context 53K/262K. DeepSeek 4 Pro recheck — all perfect! Stack: mtplx (speed + UX) + Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-MTPLX-4bit (qualified A3B) + pi (thin system context).

I wanted Opus quality for less. How do you cut tool calls? Speculative execution! After Opus's tool calls, a cheap model continues in the same session, right up until it needs to think. Thinking is Opus's job.

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