arach

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Arach Tchoupani arach[at]tchoupani.com @arach

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Comment · 9 hours ago

given that all your competitors in this space are open source, hard to make the case against it

if you have any special tricks, probably don't worry too much about getting copied if you really want to win in the "devs who care about performance" market

[did i miss the gh repo?]

Comment · 9 hours ago

you might enjoy learning more about this https://zed.dev/acp in case it sparks new ideas

ACP helps with agent interoperability and helps a lot of IDEs and ADEs integrate all the major harnesses seamlessly

zed https://github.com/zed-industries/zed orca https://github.com/stablyai/orca/tree/main/src/main

I haven't looked at the cli implementation but you can get very far with integrating a harness while not invoking the model directly via API

Comment · 11 days ago

Julian was early to this theme and very helpful to hundreds if not thousands of founders

btw, if you have a chance to work with him you should! highly recommend

Comment · 20 days ago

I worked at Meta and we had AGI in the form of very competent ICs - getting anything done was often super painful because "org priority" this and "buy in" that

Comment · 20 days ago

https://github.com/hudsonkit/vox tiniest dictation thing - extremely fast and easy to update or work on

Comment · 20 days ago

voxd.cc/minivox - tiniest talkie.to - bells and whistles

Comment · 20 days ago

what type of control would you like? For me the key is to give my agents more useful OS abstractions and I do this via https://lattices.dev - this gives my projects a nice semantic representation and action space for my OS

I don't do everything. Also fully expect Siri and AppIntents will continue to improve

having said that, what would you like to control?

Comment · 1 month ago

what kind of workloads are we talking about?

Comment · 1 month ago

https://uselinea.com - A reading app with a harness or a harness with reading app. Can turn any highlight/page/section into audio with your favority TTS engine, including Kokoro if you like

I initially built it to help me read AI papers before discovering AlphaXiv but then I just kept building it for the love of the game

Might have some rough edges but one feature I'm excited about is a more personalized notebook LM style audio generation capability for any readable material

(Another reason to build this was to kick the tires on a framework I've been building to power my own apps - https://hudsonkit.com - helps me ship iOS, macOS and web apps with shared primitives)

Comment · 1 month ago

I think we're close to the point where local models can make this economically viable as an alternative to hands off XAI/OAI/ANT

You need rapid good enough rapid turn response + rapid good enough TTS in order to make it economically for someone who's not blending it into a more compute heavy pricing model

Have you looked into it? Are you familiar with Pipecat https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat - they put out interesting demos frequently

Comment · 2 months ago

the loop is going to be interesting as we produce orders of magnitude low signal code, how do Labs comb through everything to train on the true contributions since last training run?

I wonder if one way to monetize certified "skill" will be to syndicate / license your provably well software engineered / tasteful AI engineered code back to the Labs for a fee

Comment · 2 months ago

there's one of these just about every other week since early this year

i think it's incredible because however saturated I feel this space has become, highly likely the vast majority of the world has no idea how good models have become, let alone local models

I've added local voice support for all apps/webapps I've built this year

Local TTS is on the cusp of a breakout too, basically a year behind ASR imo in terms of adoption, understanding, size and quality

Comment · 2 months ago

I send all these stories to my chief of staff agent to "immigrant parent" them into becoming an overachiever

Comment · 3 months ago

I've been building a little app on the side that allows me to primarily read my books in epub, mobi or pdf -> text format but generate readouts on demand for only the bits I want (highlight, paragraph, page, chapter) so that I can continue while I'm on the go, without having to bifurcate between apps - this might already exist but I made mine

Naturally, I also added the ability to highlight, leave notes and ... ask questions (via API)

Even with incredible models, it's a decent amount of work to get this to work nicely