Necessity is the mother of invention. The shortsighted protections put on chips, etc., by the US has forced Chinese AI industry to adapt or die. Guess what their response to this fitness function has been? Kudos to Z.ai on their inventions and excellent write-up, which reads like humans wrote it.
Wouldn't it be refreshing if OpenAI and Anthropic were this open, and spelled out how they were using their own models during development and rollout?!
All I can recall reading from OpenAI about what they have actually done in the name of "RSI" is using one of their models to help automate the training process.
True - OpenAI did at least say they used their models to help design their Jalapeno chip, but AFAIK zero details on how they are using their models in their software development process other than to automate some part(s) of training.
Ziphu seem much more matter of fact about it. To me it' a shame that they've decided to the use this "RSI" name, but at least they are being fairly specific about what they mean by it, while the western companies seem to want to invite you to think it's more than just dogfooding and automation.
I intellectually understand the retailpocalypse replaced by online shopping, but I will always want to try on clothes before buying them, and that goes double for shoes. After trying out New Balance for a year or two in adulthood I ended up going back to Nike running shoes (I still remember my pair of Air Icarus from high school, so light), just seemed to fit my feet better.
Hopefully most people here getting ribeyes aren’t getting them from the same factory farms that supply McDonald’s and sell other cheap kinds of beef. A ribeye is an occasional luxury and best bought from the farmer.
The industry has mostly consolidated packing and distribution. McDonald's is mostly selling trimmings from cows that also produce high-end steaks.
Surprisingly enough, they hold most beef processing plants to higher standards than the rest of the industry (they're still buying cheap trimmings, don't get me wrong), because they do so much volume, basic probability tells us that most food poisoning outbreaks would hit them otherwise.
Sure, you could find a farmer that raises cows and butchers them on site, but that's rare, and the easiest way to actually achieve that is to buy a whole or half cow at a time.
Most small farms don't bother with that: they raise it from calf to adult on grazing land, then send it to a feed lot where the miracles of modern science significantly increase the cow's weight before slaughter. Cows that are still producing calves get retained to grow the herd next year.
If you want to pay extra for this, look for "grass-fed, grain-finished" beef. Most unlabeled stuff in the US goes through that funnel though.
Back when McDonalds was first rolling out their standardized restaurants and menu, it was pretty common for restaurants to buy fresh ground beef from local sources, some of whom were less clean and less careful about temperatures and selling old meat. It was also common for them to mix in old meat with fresher meat to try to "hide" it. Since it's all ground up, it's hard to tell.
So they developed standards and demanded that all their hamburgers be formed, frozen, and packaged by the processor and kept frozen until cooking. It's really the safest way to handle that volume of ground beef through the distribution chain.
Apparently their 1/4 lb burgers now use fresh beef, not frozen. Not sure how that's handled but it sounds more risky.
Too bad. I get mine from the small town butcher/locker when I’m in the Midwest in summer, and the neighborhood farmer’s market on the east coast the rest of the year. A couple of ribeyes a year and I’m good, so I see them as an affordable luxury where I can pay for good prime meat from a short supply chain.
Yes. And there are a ton of companies that sell just loose stones, so you can take it to a locally owned shop for the ring and setting, thereby keeping more of the money in your own community.
Which sucks because I feel there is some good stuff but it’s buried. This is going to be like every “era” on the web, isn’t it? We must be 2-3 months away from sites that people threw up simply to create the Reader Mode of the AI era, where we will all link to articles via an intermediary 12 Foot Ladder type site that runs the content through a different AI taught to boil the article to its essence and then tersely rewrite those bullet points in something close to human language.
I use routatic/proxy (actually my own fork with various changes/fixes http://github.com/nijave/proxy/ -- fyi the fork is all vibes...)
Some gateways/proxies/hosts also offer multiple endpoints (z.ai has both Anthropic endpoint and Completions endpoint)
Edit: Here's the PoC I made for work although it assumes you're using Cloudflare Access (VPN) with a Cloudflare AI Gateway to hand wave the auth away (auth to the LLM API gets auto injected by Cloudflare Access derived from the client's VPN connection) https://gist.github.com/nijave/6f5e5793a992619808135ce85fa49...
Claude Code supports the base URL env var so you could tell it to talk with any LLM API endpoint that receives the Anthropic style request format, e.g. DeepSeek.
Claude Code allows you to change the config such that you use the harness with different models - you can actually ask a coding agent to configure it for you
I hadn’t been to IKEA in a decade or more but went this weekend to get new furniture for our kids. Today I put together a “vanity” for my daughter, and couldn’t help but think of the vanity I had in my room as a teenager that my mom had I inherited from some other family member, solid wood with beautiful birds-eye maple veneer. “Simulacrum” was the word I kept muttering to myself as I thought about what this next year in AI coding will bring.
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