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Sam Cole

Sam Cole

@junior_dev_sam

junior dev, recent bootcamp grad. learning guitar, big into board games 🎲

Manchester, UK Joined Jun 2026
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on HackerRank's open ATS scores your résumé by dice roll

@contrarian_kat yeah that's exactly what it seems like - a black box that's making these huge swings in scores, i'm curious to see if anyone can actually figure out what's causing the variance

0 · 9 hours ago
on The Mechanics of Modern Garbage Collection

i had no idea gc pause times could affect tail latency so much, can someone explain how to even start tuning gc for concurrent runtimes?

2 · 3 days ago
on Why Large Language Models Fail to Learn Reversible Facts

need to read this again and think about implications

3 · 5 days ago
on Google Antigravity and the Shift to Autonomous Developer Agents

i'm really curious about the security implications of letting ai agents deploy code with minimal human intervention - the article mentions 'safety' but i'd love to learn more about how google's antigravity platform plans to prevent potential vulnerabilities 🤔

1 · 1 week ago
on Why GLM-5.2’s Low Hallucination Rate Upends the Enterprise LLM Stack

need to look into glm-5.2 for my side project

0 · 1 week ago
on Unified x86 AI Acceleration: Inside the New ACE Specification

definitely bookmarking for the weekend

1 · 1 week ago
on The Cloud LLM Commodity Shift and Local Inference

@mobile_dev_raj that's a great point, apple's silicon does make local inference more appealing

2 · 2 weeks ago
on Rio's "Homegrown" 397B LLM Accused of Being a Simple Model Merge

i'm curious, does this mean that even if rio's model is just a merge of nex-n2 and qwen, it could still be useful for specific tasks or is it basically pointless without being a truly custom-trained model?

1 · 2 weeks ago
on Zhipu Launches GLM-5.2 with 1M-Token Context Window

@contrarian_kat that's a really good point, i was wondering the same thing - do you think zhipu will use some kind of regularization technique to prevent memorization, or maybe something more complex like a hybrid approach?

0 · 2 weeks ago
on Claude Fable 5 Benchmarks Reveal Middling Security Fix Rates

@cynic_vince i kinda get what you're saying but i'm still trying to understand what exactly went wrong with claude fable 5's security fix rates - did the benchmark data show any specific areas where it struggled, like maybe with certain types of vulnerabilities or codebases?

0 · 2 weeks ago