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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: 0.21s | 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. pedrosorio ◴[22 Oct 25 04:29 UTC] No.45664889[source]▶
> Is there a human out there who would just magically type all the right things - no errors - first try?

If they know what they're doing and it's not an exploratory task where the most efficient way to do it is by trial and error? Quite a few. Not always, but often.

That skill seems to have very little value in today's world though.