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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2025 Octobersyntaxing

About Claude Code getting DeepSeek-OCR running on an Nvidia Spark.

Ehh, is it cool and time savings that it figured it out? Yes. But the solution was to get a “better” version prebuilt wheel package of PyTorch. This is a relatively “easy” problem to solve (figuring out this was the problem does take time). But it’s (probably, I can’t afford one) going to be painful when you want to upgrade the cuda version or specify a specific version. Unlike a typical PC, you’re going to need to build a new image and flash it. I would be more impressed when a LLM can do this end to end for you.

An LLM handles CUDA/PyTorch setup and upgrades on an Nvidia Spark end to end, including building and flashing images.

Has this happened?

Yes 56 (54%)Not sure 39 (38%)No 9 (9%)

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