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If we're leaning into audio, why not always-on instead of push-to-talk?

Related: Rich Hickey's 'Simple Made Easy' (2011) https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4 Classic talk that still influences my design decisions today.

Try a coding agent for writing and tuning the OpenCV part, and have it explain its choices. That's probably the most practical path to shipping a working system. Speaking from expe…

In case anyone was wondering, the IOCCC specifically permits LLM use in their guidelines. "The IOCCC has a rich history of remarkable winning entries created by authors who skillfu…

What if you could finish your passion project in an evening? Would that increase not the time, but capacity for deep exploring and side projects?

Expensive because they were perceived as rare. Classic article: https://priceonomics.com/diamonds-are-bullshit/ Synthetic has pretty much eaten their lunch now.

I noticed that Futhark the programming language is also on the front page.

Loved it.

This is one of the few articles where I noticed a bunch of LLM-isms and still read to the end because it was interesting.

I think of Tesla autopilot as sophisticated cruise control. Can perform most driving tasks better than I can, saves a lot of cognitive work, still needs close of my 100% attention.…

How ironic that agents were supposed to free us from labor, but instead they're ushering in 996 culture.

Is there some magic lost also when using AI to write your blog post?

Fwiw I was going to make the same comment about the naming, but you beat me to it.

What's up with these? Genesis 1:13, Eve optimal Replace 'Then' with 'And' in optimal ('And the LORD God said') and poetic_daily to preserve narrative vav-consecutive connective con…

Love Tonsky's articles. My favorite is about centering things: https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/ He has a knack for putting words to the vague frustrations I feel but can't quite a…

Tried it in earnest. Definitely detect some aggression, and would feel stressed if this were an exam setting. I think it was pg who said that any stress you add in an interview sit…

That was my first impression as well.

Looks like the theme changes are part of the arrangement (see lines 135-149).

I'm cash flow positive on my SMS sales agent, it serves just one client and my revenue is at least 3x the cost of inference/hosting. Imo the key is to serve one use case really wel…