Devs are reverse centaurs now.

Lines of code was never a good metric, but it looks like productivity to the C-suite. This will bite them (and everyone who uses the code) in the ass. After some spectacular fails it will be judgement that a Dev is most prized for, meanwhile, this.

Still, eight to ten productive hours a day in any sustained fashion is bullshit, more like 3-4 with a bunch of meetings, learning, deciphering etc. filling out the day.

AI lab

Had a quick squiz at it, and if it meets your needs, I’d just wait, unless you want to get into the lower levels of things (and run linux), llama-swap is just an inference server, you’ll need something like Open WebUI for chat as well etc.

Not sure about AI lab (although I also use podman, prefer Llama-swap), but pretty much everything uses llama-cpp under the hood, which usually takes a day or three to setup for a new architecture. Although I seem to recall them being ready for Qwen3.5 day one due to collaboration.

I find giving it a week or so for the dust to settle (even if it ‘works’, best parameters, quantization bugs etc take a while to shake out) unless there’s a huge motivation.

Also benches are more like guidelines than actual rules, best to do your own on your own use cases.