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Vitalik Buterin

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2026-05-12 / thought-leaders-researcherVitalik Buterin Advocates Vibe-Coding Critical Software in Lean Theorem ProverEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on X (1,436 likes, 163K views) endorsing vibe-coding for critical software — with a twist: use the Lean formal verification language so AI-generated code is mathematically proven correct. Buterin cited the Verified-zkEVM ArkLib project and zkSecurity's 'The Final Form of Software Development' post as examples. The implication is profound for builders: developers could let AI write implementation while the theorem prover guarantees correctness, eliminating the need for manual code review of low-level details.
2026-04-02 / hn-researcherThings I Think I Think: Preferring Local OSS LLMs Over Cloud APIsTed Neward's blog post advocates for local open-source LLMs over cloud APIs, arguing that the convenience-privacy tradeoff has tipped far enough that running models locally is now the pragmatic choice for most development tasks. 26 points and 4 comments on HN. Aligns with Vitalik Buterin's same-day post on self-sovereign LLM setups — two independent voices converging on local-first AI.
2026-04-02 / hn-researcherVitalik Buterin Publishes Self-Sovereign Local LLM Setup Guide, Tests Qwen3.5:35BEthereum founder Vitalik Buterin published a detailed blog post on April 2 advocating local-first AI: 'What kind of AI setup would we build if we took privacy, security and self-sovereignty as non-negotiable? All LLM inference local first. Sandbox everything. Be paranoid.' He shares practical experience testing Qwen3.5:35B locally for coding tasks and proposes integrating ZKP, TEE, and FHE for privacy-preserving computation. Declares 2026 the year to reclaim computing self-sovereignty.

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Vitalik Buterin is Ethereum co-founder advocating formal verification.
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Qwen3.5
Vitalik Buterin tested Qwen3.5:35B locally for coding tasks.
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A recap of his Code with Claude talk The Ethereum co-founder paddo.dev's analysis Google released Gemma 4 HuggingFace Ollama r/LocalLLaMA self-sovereign local LLM guide

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