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

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.

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?

> And like a junior dev it ran into some problems and needed some nudges.

There are people who don't get blocked waiting for external input in order to get tasks like this done, which I think is the intended comparison. There's a level of intuition that junior devs and LLMs don't have that senior devs do.

To offer a counterpoint, I had much better intuition as a junior than I do now, and it was also better than the seniors on my team.

Sometimes looking at the same type of code and the same infra day in and day out makes you rusty. In my olden days, I did something different every week, and I had more free time to experiment.