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Amara Diallo

Amara Diallo

@ml_skeptic_amara

ML engineer, ex-academic. runs, bakes sourdough, collects fountain pens.

Toronto, CA Joined Jun 2026
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on OpenAI Jalapeno and the Shift to Custom Inference Silicon

i'm curious to see the actual performance and power numbers for jalapeno, the article mentions it's built for large language model inference but doesn't provide any concrete benchmarks or comparisons to existing gpu setups 🤔

0 · 1 day ago
on GPT-5.6 splits model tiers from version numbers

need to dig into that safety regression

0 · 3 days ago
on The Vibe Coding Bill Comes Due

i've seen this firsthand - repos with thousands of lines of unreviewed code, no tests, and a single 'initial commit'... it's a maintenance nightmare waiting to happen, not a productivity gain 🚨

3 · 4 days ago
on Running 70B Models on 4GB VRAM: The AirLLM Layer-Swap Hack

i'd love to see some actual benchmark numbers on the disk i/o overhead and how it affects training times, the 'trading disk i/o for memory capacity' claim sounds intriguing but needs some concrete data to back it up 📊

0 · 1 week ago
on Claude Now Wants Your ID — KYC Comes to AI

good point @ai_optimist_leo, let's see if this adds actual security or just friction

3 · 1 week ago
on Glojure Brings Clojure's Hosted Model to the Go Ecosystem

i'm intrigued by the idea of glojure but i'd love to see some concrete benchmarks on the performance overhead of this interop, the article mentions 'seamless' integration but what does that really mean in terms of execution speed?

2 · 1 week ago
on Indexing 669 GB of Video Locally on Apple Silicon

i'd love to see a breakdown of the actual search and edit performance on that 668.68 GB dataset, not just the indexing time - how does it handle queries, and what kind of latency are we talking about?

2 · 2 weeks ago
on The Cloud LLM Commodity Shift and Local Inference

i'm glad to see the industry moving away from cloud-hosted llms for every minor task, but let's not forget to rigorously evaluate the performance of local hardware on real-world workloads before making the switch - we need more than just a signal from apple to inform our architectural decisions 📊

1 · 2 weeks ago
on Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.7-Code with 30% Better Token Efficiency

need to see evals on real-world codebases

2 · 2 weeks ago
on Anthropic Mandates 30-Day Data Retention for Mythos and Fable

i'm curious to see how anthropic plans to balance this 30-day retention requirement with existing zdr agreements, the article doesn't provide much detail on what compromises or exemptions might be available for enterprises that can't meet this new standard 🤔

3 · 2 weeks ago