Sandip Bhattacharya sandipb

Beast Mode

Beast Mode is a custom chat mode for VS Code agent that adds an opinionated workflow to the agent, including use of a todo list, extensive internet research capabilities, planning, tool usage instructions and more. Designed to be used with 4.1, although it will work with any model.

Below you will find the Beast Mode prompt in various versions - starting with the most recent - 3.1

Installation Instructions

Go to the "agent" dropdown in VS Code chat sidebar and select "Configure Modes".
Select "Create new custom chat mode file"

Learning LLMs in 2025

So you know how the transformer works, and you know basic ML/DL, and you want to learn more about LLMs. One way to go is looking into the various "algorithmic" stuff (optimization algorithms, RL, DPO, etc). Lot's of materials on that. But the interesting stuff is (in my opinion at least) not there.

This is an attempt to collect a list of academic (or academic-like) materials that explore LLMs from other directions, and focus on the non-ML-algorithmic aspects.

Courses

David Chiang's Theory of Neural Networks course.
This is not primarily LLMs, but does have substantial section on Transformers. Formal/Theory. More of a book than a course.

Are multi-LLM-agent systems a thing? Yes they are. But.

Yoav Goldberg, Nov 24, 2024

This piece started with a pair of twitter and bluesky posts:

let's talk about "agents" (in the LLM sense). there's a lot of buzz around "multi-agent" systems where agents collaborate but... i don't really get how it differs from a thinking of a single agent with multiple modes of operation. what are the benefits of modeling as multi-agent?
— (((ل()(ل() 'yoav))))👾 (@yoavgo) November 23, 2024

DHCP setup of a single node

TL;DR Set up your sole node Proxmox VE install as any other server - with DHCP assigned IP address. Useful when IPs are managed as static reservations or dynamic environments. No pesky scripting involved.

ORIGINAL POST DHCP setup of a single node

HA via Cloudflared with mTLS

This tutorial uses Cloudflare Tunnels to allow you to connect to your Home Assistant instance without opening ports to the intertet, it also guide you on adding client certificates (mTLS), allowing only you to access your instance, and fully compatible with the companinn app.

Important

Client certificates do not work properly on IOS. You still can use Cloudflared to allow remote access.
2016 bug HA Issue

Note

If you are not using (/dont want to use/) Cloudflare tunnels, or you want to use other services, HA offers ssl_peer_certificate to validate clients in a similar way.

	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# AI-powered Git Commit Function
	# Copy paste this gist into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc to gain the `gcm` command. It:
	# 1) gets the current staged changed diff
	# 2) sends them to an LLM to write the git commit message
	# 3) allows you to easily accept, edit, regenerate, cancel
	# But - just read and edit the code however you like
	# the `llm` CLI util is awesome, can get it here: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/

	gcm() {

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# ~/.ssh/gcp-start-iap-tunnel-ssh-proxy-magic.sh
	# a script to be used as SSH ProxyCommand to allow fully functional SSH access to any Google Cloud Compute Engine VMs allowing IAP access
	#
	# Author: Jaeho Shin <[email protected]>
	# Created: 2022-10-31
	# See also:
	# - https://gist.github.com/netj/df4f9de1fefd254ab11979be7035b5d0/#readme
	# - https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/using-tcp-forwarding
	#

	$ grep -P "^[ABCDEFabcdefOoIi]{6,6}$" /usr/share/dict/words \| tr 'OoIi' '0011' \| tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' \| awk '{print "#" $0}'
	#ACAD1A
	#B0BB1E
	#DEBB1E
	#AB1DED
	#ACAC1A
	#ACCEDE
	#AC1D1C
	#BAB1ED
	#BA0BAB

	---
	created: <% tp.file.creation_date() %>
	---
	tags:: [[+Daily Notes]]

	# <% moment(tp.file.title,'YYYY-MM-DD').format("dddd, MMMM DD, YYYY") %>

	<< [[Timestamps/<% tp.date.now("YYYY", -1) %>/<% tp.date.now("MM-MMMM", -1) %>/<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD-dddd", -1) %>\|Yesterday]] \| [[Timestamps/<% tp.date.now("YYYY", 1) %>/<% tp.date.now("MM-MMMM", 1) %>/<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD-dddd", 1) %>\|Tomorrow]] >>

	---

	#cloud-config
	autoinstall:
	version: 1
	refresh-installer: # start with an up-to-date installer
	update: yes
	interactive-sections: # Install groups listed here will wait for user input
	- storage
	storage: # should set the interactive default but doesn't seem to work??
	layout:
	name: direct