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Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code

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200 points simonw | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 17:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bahmboo ◴[21 Oct 25 23:04 UTC] No.45662877[source]▶
I see a lot of snark in the comments. Simon is a researcher and I really like seeing his experiments! Sounds like the goal here was to delegate a discrete task to an LLM and have it solve the problem much like one would task a junior dev to do the same.

And like a junior dev it ran into some problems and needed some nudges. Also like a junior dev it consumed energy resources while doing it.

In the end I like that the chunk size of work that we can delegate to LLMs is getting larger.

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Upvoter33 ◴[21 Oct 25 23:30 UTC] No.45663098[source]▶
No offense, but I hate all the comparisons to a "junior dev" that I see out there. This process is just like any dev! I mean, who wouldn't have to tinker around a bit to get some piece of software to work? Is there a human out there who would just magically type all the right things - no errors - first try?
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1. bahmboo ◴[22 Oct 25 00:14 UTC] No.45663461[source]▶
Point taken and I should have known better. I fully agree with you. I suppose I should say inexperienced dev or something more accurate. Having worked with many inexperienced devs there was quite a spread in capabilities. Using terms that are dismissive to individuals is not helpful.