Time to ship
The way into Soup is the issue board.
Pick any free issue labelled
Three rules
1. One issue at a time.
One "taking this" comment — in one thread. No claiming several at once.
2. Claimed means started.
Progress the same day: a commit, a draft PR, or a question in the thread. 24 hours of silence — the issue goes back to the pool.
3. Shipped? Take the next one.
What you get
Points for every accepted contribution. Public leaderboard — coming here soon.
Monthly rewards for the top of the board.
Paid tasks are coming, each with a price on it.
The strongest get pulled into paid work with the team.
Everything shipped from today already counts.
github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup/issues
The way into Soup is the issue board.
Pick any free issue labelled
help wanted and build.Three rules
1. One issue at a time.
One "taking this" comment — in one thread. No claiming several at once.
2. Claimed means started.
Progress the same day: a commit, a draft PR, or a question in the thread. 24 hours of silence — the issue goes back to the pool.
3. Shipped? Take the next one.
What you get
Points for every accepted contribution. Public leaderboard — coming here soon.
Monthly rewards for the top of the board.
Paid tasks are coming, each with a price on it.
The strongest get pulled into paid work with the team.
Everything shipped from today already counts.
github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup/issues
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Soup Research Challenge — 24 hours, $100
An investor asked: who pays for Soup, and why. Find companies that fine-tune models on scarce GPUs and bring them to a call.
Brief and a forwardable Soup deck are in the files. Best research gets $100 and goes to investors with your name on it.
Post on LinkedIn that you're in and tag linkedin.com/company/trysoup — the prize doubles: $200 instead of $100.
🔗 Soup Intro link
🔗 Soup Research Challenge
An investor asked: who pays for Soup, and why. Find companies that fine-tune models on scarce GPUs and bring them to a call.
Brief and a forwardable Soup deck are in the files. Best research gets $100 and goes to investors with your name on it.
Post on LinkedIn that you're in and tag linkedin.com/company/trysoup — the prize doubles: $200 instead of $100.
🔗 Soup Intro link
🔗 Soup Research Challenge
📬 Research Challenge — where to send your work
Send your research to
Subject:
Any format that reads well — doc, PDF, or a link.
Posted on LinkedIn and tagged Soup? Drop the link to your post in the same email — that doubles the prize to $200.
Best research wins. Ship it. 🥣
Send your research to
rafik@trysoup.devSubject:
Research ChallengeAny format that reads well — doc, PDF, or a link.
Posted on LinkedIn and tagged Soup? Drop the link to your post in the same email — that doubles the prize to $200.
Best research wins. Ship it. 🥣
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💬 The chat is where the work happens
Announcements land here. Everything else is in the chat: install problems, your numbers, what Soup should do next.
New? One line: what you work on, your GPU, your OS.
👉 Soup Tasters | Chat
📊 A poll is coming. Answer it and you are in the draw for Soup merch.
🥣 And one more thing opens soon. Everything you ship from now on will count in it.
Announcements land here. Everything else is in the chat: install problems, your numbers, what Soup should do next.
New? One line: what you work on, your GPU, your OS.
👉 Soup Tasters | Chat
📊 A poll is coming. Answer it and you are in the draw for Soup merch.
🥣 And one more thing opens soon. Everything you ship from now on will count in it.
🥣 Who's in Soup Tasters?
We're growing fast, and not everyone here writes code. Engineers, designers, marketers, founders, students: we want to see who we're cooking for.
💬 Questions, ideas, looking for teammates? Our chat is open: Soup Tasters | Chat
We're growing fast, and not everyone here writes code. Engineers, designers, marketers, founders, students: we want to see who we're cooking for.
💬 Questions, ideas, looking for teammates? Our chat is open: Soup Tasters | Chat
📊 One quick poll below. One tap, fully anonymous 👇
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🏆 Soup LinkedIn Challenge: $225 in prizes
Write the most interesting LinkedIn post about Soup and win.
🥇 $100 · 🥈 $75 · 🥉 $50
Open to everyone, not just engineers. Your angle, your format: a tutorial, a story, a benchmark, a meme, a video. Surprise us.
📌 To qualify:
- Write it in English
- Tag Soup, Rafik Mamedov and Alpamys Makazhan
- Mention our Telegram community Soup Tasters: t.me/souptasters
⏰ Deadline: October 9, 23:59 Almaty time
No need to send us anything, we'll find your post through the tags. The three most interesting posts win; if it's close, reach decides. Winners are announced right here.
🔗 Soup: linkedin.com/company/trysoup
🔗 Rafik: linkedin.com/in/rafik-mamedov
🔗 Alpamys: linkedin.com/in/justalpamys
Write the most interesting LinkedIn post about Soup and win.
🥇 $100 · 🥈 $75 · 🥉 $50
Open to everyone, not just engineers. Your angle, your format: a tutorial, a story, a benchmark, a meme, a video. Surprise us.
📌 To qualify:
- Write it in English
- Tag Soup, Rafik Mamedov and Alpamys Makazhan
- Mention our Telegram community Soup Tasters: t.me/souptasters
⏰ Deadline: October 9, 23:59 Almaty time
No need to send us anything, we'll find your post through the tags. The three most interesting posts win; if it's close, reach decides. Winners are announced right here.
🔗 Soup: linkedin.com/company/trysoup
🔗 Rafik: linkedin.com/in/rafik-mamedov
🔗 Alpamys: linkedin.com/in/justalpamys
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We're growing Soup and looking for AI Engineer Interns based in Astana, Kazakhstan. What to expect:
Around 4 hours a day; we're open to both part-time and full-time arrangements
Hybrid work in Astana, combining in-person and online work
First month as an unpaid internship
Hands-on experience building an AI startup
After the first month, interns who are a strong fit may have the opportunity to move into a paid role Interested? Send your CV to team@trysoup.dev.
Around 4 hours a day; we're open to both part-time and full-time arrangements
Hybrid work in Astana, combining in-person and online work
First month as an unpaid internship
Hands-on experience building an AI startup
After the first month, interns who are a strong fit may have the opportunity to move into a paid role Interested? Send your CV to team@trysoup.dev.
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Put Soup on your lock screenYour laptop does the training. Your phone gets the look.New wallpapers, full resolution, sent as files. Tap, save, set.Show us your lock screen in the comments 💬Phone done. Laptop next: `pip install "soup-cli[train]"`Please open Telegram to view this post
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We are expanding our operations and are currently seeking interns in Cybersecurity, DevOps, Frontend, and Backend from a global pool. If you are interested in developing an AI startup with us, please submit your curriculum vitae to team@trysoup.dev.
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XP, levels and a public leaderboard, right inside Telegram.
1. Open @souptasters_bot and tap Open app
2. Attach your CV and fill 5 fields: +10 XP
3. Earn XP with code or posts
Code: link GitHub and every merged PR in Soup counts on its own, 10 to 300 XP. Past PRs too.
Posts: write about Soup on any network, up to 100 XP.
16 levels from Taster to Core. Levels unlock harder and paid tasks. Core leads to an internship interview.
Your CV stays with the Soup team.
👉 t.me/souptasters_bot
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🏆 Soup LinkedIn Challenge: the winners
Seven of you wrote about Soup on LinkedIn: real projects, honest experiments, stories from code review. Thank you, every post was worth reading.
🥇 $100 · Harshit Sharma & Pernav Jain
Built Bug Whisper: a 3B model fine-tuned with Soup on a single T4 in 14 minutes, with a live demo and notebooks.
lnkd.in/p/dNHV5Eqi
🥈 $75 · Nurkhan Esenbek
Stress-tested Soup on free Colab and caught a bug in his own measurements with a zero learning rate run.
lnkd.in/p/d6Uha3kh
🥉 $50 · Vansh Sharma
What five merged PRs taught him about code review at Soup.
lnkd.in/p/daETvsSm
Everyone else who took part gets $25:
- Dias Trudkhanov: lnkd.in/p/d5gghD7h
- Muhammed Shabeer: lnkd.in/p/dAHmhr7m
- Ousama Ben Younes: lnkd.in/p/dM2Bt-_C
- Samarth Mukhija: lnkd.in/p/dZvNa4j5
Every participant also gets 100 XP in the Soup Tasters app, credited automatically. Just make sure you've joined: @souptasters_bot
For payouts, message Nail: @ndablizov
Seven of you wrote about Soup on LinkedIn: real projects, honest experiments, stories from code review. Thank you, every post was worth reading.
🥇 $100 · Harshit Sharma & Pernav Jain
Built Bug Whisper: a 3B model fine-tuned with Soup on a single T4 in 14 minutes, with a live demo and notebooks.
lnkd.in/p/dNHV5Eqi
🥈 $75 · Nurkhan Esenbek
Stress-tested Soup on free Colab and caught a bug in his own measurements with a zero learning rate run.
lnkd.in/p/d6Uha3kh
🥉 $50 · Vansh Sharma
What five merged PRs taught him about code review at Soup.
lnkd.in/p/daETvsSm
Everyone else who took part gets $25:
- Dias Trudkhanov: lnkd.in/p/d5gghD7h
- Muhammed Shabeer: lnkd.in/p/dAHmhr7m
- Ousama Ben Younes: lnkd.in/p/dM2Bt-_C
- Samarth Mukhija: lnkd.in/p/dZvNa4j5
Every participant also gets 100 XP in the Soup Tasters app, credited automatically. Just make sure you've joined: @souptasters_bot
For payouts, message Nail: @ndablizov
LinkedIn
#soup #llm #finetuning #machinelearning #opensource | Harshit sharma | 21 comments
Most AI coding tools make a fundamentally flawed bet: they ask a giant 70B general-purpose model to "mentally simulate" a Python interpreter.
The result?
Four paragraphs of polite conversational fluff, 800 wasted tokens, and a hallucinated explanation that…
The result?
Four paragraphs of polite conversational fluff, 800 wasted tokens, and a hallucinated explanation that…
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