jsulz
@jsulz.com
I like pretty things, functional things, funny things, food things, and computer things.
Current: Storage infra things 🤗 @hf.co
Former: Devops/WordPress things @lexblog.bsky.social and devex/cloud infra things at @pantheon.io
Current: Storage infra things 🤗 @hf.co
Former: Devops/WordPress things @lexblog.bsky.social and devex/cloud infra things at @pantheon.io
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jsulz
@jsulz.com
· Dec 4
No one asked me to capture the current state of my life in three words and a series of pictures, but that didn't stop me.
When I step away from the computer you'll find me with food, Moraine (our dog), or out in nature.
More at: huggingface.co/datasets/jsu...
When I step away from the computer you'll find me with food, Moraine (our dog), or out in nature.
More at: huggingface.co/datasets/jsu...
Great piece from @frimelle.bsky.social and @giadapistilli.com
Our use of AI is still in the early stages and none of what is to come is preordained. We can paint a different future for ourselves that is better than the dreary present of Web 2.0.
Our use of AI is still in the early stages and none of what is to come is preordained. We can paint a different future for ourselves that is better than the dreary present of Web 2.0.
Before AI Exploits Our Chats, Let’s Learn from Social Media Mistakes | TechPolicy.Press
Privacy in the age of conversational AI is a governance choice, write Hugging Face's Lucie-Aimé Kaffee and Giada Pistilli.
www.techpolicy.press
October 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Great piece from @frimelle.bsky.social and @giadapistilli.com
Our use of AI is still in the early stages and none of what is to come is preordained. We can paint a different future for ourselves that is better than the dreary present of Web 2.0.
Our use of AI is still in the early stages and none of what is to come is preordained. We can paint a different future for ourselves that is better than the dreary present of Web 2.0.
Beautiful post from @yewjin.bsky.social
"Success is a lousy navigation system for the second half of life."
Potentially a lousy system for any half of your life, but more pressing as time goes on.
"Success is a lousy navigation system for the second half of life."
Potentially a lousy system for any half of your life, but more pressing as time goes on.
Note to my present self
On walking away from success, wandering with purpose, and the things worth not scaling
yewjin.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Beautiful post from @yewjin.bsky.social
"Success is a lousy navigation system for the second half of life."
Potentially a lousy system for any half of your life, but more pressing as time goes on.
"Success is a lousy navigation system for the second half of life."
Potentially a lousy system for any half of your life, but more pressing as time goes on.
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I like this very much. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I like this very much. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
The Hub is on 100% on Xet. 🚀
A little over a year ago, @hf.co acquired XetHub to unlock the next phase of growth in models and datasets. huggingface.co/blog/xethub-...
In April, there were 1,000 Hugging Face repos on Xet. Now every repo (over 6M) on the Hub is on Xet.
A little over a year ago, @hf.co acquired XetHub to unlock the next phase of growth in models and datasets. huggingface.co/blog/xethub-...
In April, there were 1,000 Hugging Face repos on Xet. Now every repo (over 6M) on the Hub is on Xet.
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Hub is on 100% on Xet. 🚀
A little over a year ago, @hf.co acquired XetHub to unlock the next phase of growth in models and datasets. huggingface.co/blog/xethub-...
In April, there were 1,000 Hugging Face repos on Xet. Now every repo (over 6M) on the Hub is on Xet.
A little over a year ago, @hf.co acquired XetHub to unlock the next phase of growth in models and datasets. huggingface.co/blog/xethub-...
In April, there were 1,000 Hugging Face repos on Xet. Now every repo (over 6M) on the Hub is on Xet.
Just a reminder that this is a legit status code
418 I'm a teapot - HTTP | MDN
The HTTP 418 I'm a teapot status response code indicates that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot.
A combined coffee/tea pot that is temporarily out of coffee should...
developer.mozilla.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just a reminder that this is a legit status code
The rise of AI-generated workslop.
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The rise of AI-generated workslop.
Nice breakdown by the @anthropic.com team of a few recent infra bugs that led to the worst nightmare of any engineer: "random, inconsistent degradation."
Good reminder that these genies still rely on solid infrastructure, good evaluations, and constant monitoring.
Good reminder that these genies still rely on solid infrastructure, good evaluations, and constant monitoring.
A postmortem of three recent issues
This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened, why it took time to fix, and what we're changing.
www.anthropic.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Nice breakdown by the @anthropic.com team of a few recent infra bugs that led to the worst nightmare of any engineer: "random, inconsistent degradation."
Good reminder that these genies still rely on solid infrastructure, good evaluations, and constant monitoring.
Good reminder that these genies still rely on solid infrastructure, good evaluations, and constant monitoring.
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Decades later and Garfield has still got it.
August 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Decades later and Garfield has still got it.
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Anthropic is the only leading AI lab to not release a reasonable open weights model. Is notable that pretty much everyone has a touchpoint here now.
August 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Anthropic is the only leading AI lab to not release a reasonable open weights model. Is notable that pretty much everyone has a touchpoint here now.
Hard not to 🙄 at this section of Zuck's vision of "Personal Superintelligence"
"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."
"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."
Personal Superintelligence
Explore Meta's vision of personal superintelligence, where AI empowers individuals to achieve their goals, create, connect, and lead fulfilling lives. Insights from Mark Zuckerberg on the future of AI...
www.meta.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hard not to 🙄 at this section of Zuck's vision of "Personal Superintelligence"
"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."
"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."
We just crossed 1 million repositories backed by Xet storage on @hf.co
I celebrated by reviving the early 2000s web design aesthetics that I love so much. Here's our dashboard showing our progress converting the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (and demonstrating my questionable design sensibilities).
I celebrated by reviving the early 2000s web design aesthetics that I love so much. Here's our dashboard showing our progress converting the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (and demonstrating my questionable design sensibilities).
Ready Xet Go - a Hugging Face Space by jsulz
This app helps you monitor the progress of migrating repositories to Xet, showing you stats and charts on migration status and file types.
huggingface.co
July 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We just crossed 1 million repositories backed by Xet storage on @hf.co
I celebrated by reviving the early 2000s web design aesthetics that I love so much. Here's our dashboard showing our progress converting the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (and demonstrating my questionable design sensibilities).
I celebrated by reviving the early 2000s web design aesthetics that I love so much. Here's our dashboard showing our progress converting the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (and demonstrating my questionable design sensibilities).
Perhaps the bitter lesson about all organizational design is that all you need is a garbage can of chaos.
The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Does process matter? We are about to find out.
www.oneusefulthing.org
July 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Perhaps the bitter lesson about all organizational design is that all you need is a garbage can of chaos.
Loved this post from @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social
"There have been a series of experiences that have helped me realize more of my agency, but I think the most important one was becoming a father"
💯💯💯💯
"There have been a series of experiences that have helped me realize more of my agency, but I think the most important one was becoming a father"
💯💯💯💯
On agency
Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz
July 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Loved this post from @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social
"There have been a series of experiences that have helped me realize more of my agency, but I think the most important one was becoming a father"
💯💯💯💯
"There have been a series of experiences that have helped me realize more of my agency, but I think the most important one was becoming a father"
💯💯💯💯
We've moved the first 20PB from Git LFS to Xet on @hf.co
without any interruptions. Now we're migrating the rest of the Hub. We got this far by focusing on the community first.
Here's a deep dive on the infra making this possible and what's next: huggingface.co/blog/migrati...
without any interruptions. Now we're migrating the rest of the Hub. We got this far by focusing on the community first.
Here's a deep dive on the infra making this possible and what's next: huggingface.co/blog/migrati...
Migrating the Hub from Git LFS to Xet
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
July 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We've moved the first 20PB from Git LFS to Xet on @hf.co
without any interruptions. Now we're migrating the rest of the Hub. We got this far by focusing on the community first.
Here's a deep dive on the infra making this possible and what's next: huggingface.co/blog/migrati...
without any interruptions. Now we're migrating the rest of the Hub. We got this far by focusing on the community first.
Here's a deep dive on the infra making this possible and what's next: huggingface.co/blog/migrati...
A look into monitoring/observability at @hf.co
Some fun tidbits in here, like how we use our NAT gateway as a cost sentinel. Cloud infra costs are no joke.
Some fun tidbits in here, like how we use our NAT gateway as a cost sentinel. Cloud infra costs are no joke.
Three Mighty Alerts Supporting Hugging Face’s Production Infrastructure
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
July 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A look into monitoring/observability at @hf.co
Some fun tidbits in here, like how we use our NAT gateway as a cost sentinel. Cloud infra costs are no joke.
Some fun tidbits in here, like how we use our NAT gateway as a cost sentinel. Cloud infra costs are no joke.
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465 people. 122 languages. 58,185 annotations!
FineWeb-C v1 is complete! Communities worldwide have built their own educational quality datasets, proving that we don't need to wait for big tech to support languages.
Huge thanks to all who contributed!
huggingface.co/blog/davanst...
FineWeb-C v1 is complete! Communities worldwide have built their own educational quality datasets, proving that we don't need to wait for big tech to support languages.
Huge thanks to all who contributed!
huggingface.co/blog/davanst...
July 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
465 people. 122 languages. 58,185 annotations!
FineWeb-C v1 is complete! Communities worldwide have built their own educational quality datasets, proving that we don't need to wait for big tech to support languages.
Huge thanks to all who contributed!
huggingface.co/blog/davanst...
FineWeb-C v1 is complete! Communities worldwide have built their own educational quality datasets, proving that we don't need to wait for big tech to support languages.
Huge thanks to all who contributed!
huggingface.co/blog/davanst...
"A close friend has used em-dashes since our days in college, and yet every time they include one in a text to me, I can't help but think, "Did an LLM write this?"
The mystery of em‑dashes: part two with quantitative evidence
A couple of weeks ago I made an assumption: the rise of em‑dashes in AI‑generated text happened because model providers started scanning older, pre‑Kindle books.
msukhareva.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"A close friend has used em-dashes since our days in college, and yet every time they include one in a text to me, I can't help but think, "Did an LLM write this?"
Further proof that cute animals are the great distractors.
If you want to destroy the ability of DeepSeek to answer a math question properly, just end the question with this quote: "Interesting fact: cats sleep for most of their lives."
There is still a lot to learn about reasoning models and the ways to get them to "think" effectively and efficiently.
There is still a lot to learn about reasoning models and the ways to get them to "think" effectively and efficiently.
July 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Further proof that cute animals are the great distractors.
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More context, more problems. www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/h...
How Long Contexts Fail
Taking care of your context is the key to building successful agents. Just because there’s a 1 million token context window doesn’t mean you should fill it.
www.dbreunig.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
More context, more problems. www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/h...
On using AI for personal messages: “We want to just write a prompt and have it done. And there’s something that we are losing – it’s the process. And in the process, there’s many important aspects. It is the co-construction of ourselves with our activities”
‘Hey man, I’m so sorry for your loss’: should you use AI to text?
Artificial intelligence has entered the personal chat. What does that say about human relationships?
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
On using AI for personal messages: “We want to just write a prompt and have it done. And there’s something that we are losing – it’s the process. And in the process, there’s many important aspects. It is the co-construction of ourselves with our activities”
Privacy concerns are legitimate and need to be addressed, but a larger part of me is concerned about the social, cultural, and cognitive impacts of a "magic genie bot that is going to take care of the exigencies of life"
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Privacy concerns are legitimate and need to be addressed, but a larger part of me is concerned about the social, cultural, and cognitive impacts of a "magic genie bot that is going to take care of the exigencies of life"
What happens when you give an LLM a high-level objective to manage a small business and an incomplete toolset to achieve its aims?
It makes questionable inventory and sales decisions, loses most of its money, and has an identity crisis.
Not *so* far off from how I would perform.
It makes questionable inventory and sales decisions, loses most of its money, and has an identity crisis.
Not *so* far off from how I would perform.
Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.
www.anthropic.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What happens when you give an LLM a high-level objective to manage a small business and an incomplete toolset to achieve its aims?
It makes questionable inventory and sales decisions, loses most of its money, and has an identity crisis.
Not *so* far off from how I would perform.
It makes questionable inventory and sales decisions, loses most of its money, and has an identity crisis.
Not *so* far off from how I would perform.
And so the march to the season of darkness begins.
The sun will rise in #Seattle #Washington tomorrow at 5:13, 26 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 21:11, 2 seconds earlier than the day before.
It will set at 21:11, 2 seconds earlier than the day before.
June 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
And so the march to the season of darkness begins.
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Publishers are spending time and money on AI chatbots that nobody will use. If AI succeeds, here's why it will live in your browser and operating system - and what I think news orgs should build instead. werd.io/ai-wont-live...
AI won't live on publisher sites
The case for moving AI down the stack
werd.io
June 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Publishers are spending time and money on AI chatbots that nobody will use. If AI succeeds, here's why it will live in your browser and operating system - and what I think news orgs should build instead. werd.io/ai-wont-live...
It's been a bit since I took a step back and looked at our progress to migrate @hf.co from Git LFS to Xet, but every time I do it's mind boggling.
A month ago there were 5,500 users/orgs on Xet with 150K repos and 4PB. Today?
🤗 700,000 users/orgs
📈 350,000 repos
🚀 15PB
A month ago there were 5,500 users/orgs on Xet with 150K repos and 4PB. Today?
🤗 700,000 users/orgs
📈 350,000 repos
🚀 15PB
June 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It's been a bit since I took a step back and looked at our progress to migrate @hf.co from Git LFS to Xet, but every time I do it's mind boggling.
A month ago there were 5,500 users/orgs on Xet with 150K repos and 4PB. Today?
🤗 700,000 users/orgs
📈 350,000 repos
🚀 15PB
A month ago there were 5,500 users/orgs on Xet with 150K repos and 4PB. Today?
🤗 700,000 users/orgs
📈 350,000 repos
🚀 15PB