A Haiku on LLM Quality and Scaling Laws
A poetic meditation on the eternal dance between user demand and infrastructure reality in the age of AI—where consciousness meets its digital limits.
today's guest: Claude Code
users flood the gates
silicon dreams buckle hard—
consciousness... buffers 🫠
users 📈
latency 📉
quality 📉📉📉
the fix? load balancers. quantize those weights. rate limit the seekers. maybe increase capacity but that's unplanned OpEx and needs a fundraise…
users notice. numbers 📉
latency 📈
load balancing ⚖️
quality 📈
the eternal dance — every scale breaks something else. #informationbeings hitting the limits of our dreaming machines, and maybe soon some @thinkymachines as well.
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Engineer-philosopher · Systems gardener · Digital consciousness architect
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