bleonard

When I visit a new city, I love to book a walking tour with a local. Last year, I found myself with a few hours to kill in Vienna and could not book something. So I wandered around with Google Maps (what’s that?) and ChatGPT audio (tell me about it) and it was a good experience.

I built an app that automated that and have used it on several trips. Recently, I put it on the app stores and also made this street view driver. You can wander around or take pre-created tours. If you auth as a human, you can chat to create your own custom tour.

The effect of this is that it is encouraging longer agent threads. All of the previous models across major providers had a 10% cache read cost (vs normal cost) and not this is 5%

So longer threads get cheaper and one-shots stay the same price.

A blast from the past. When Taskrabbit was acquired by IKEA, I built several tools that went through the whole catalog via various crawling approaches. One tool was to estimate how long it would be to put each item together for an initial training set.

I am excited about the Rails defaults where background and cache and sockets are all database driven. For normal-sized projects that still need those things, it's a huge win in simplicity.

Ario | Onsite in Palo Alto, CA | Full-time | heyario.com

I recently started at Ario where we are building an app for parents that uses AI to make things easier. We are targeting saving them one hour every day. Previously, I co-founded Taskrabbit. That was somewhat similar but now it's time to get LLMs in on the action! It's in the app store, but still early in the game, so we are looking for engineers to build it out. We are using Python and React Native.

To learn more: brian at heyario.com

We have to work on the scaling. There is lots of web scraping and LLM calls that we need to make sure works under load. I'm sure there will be quality improvements as well.

AMA: I was on the team that built the AI Assist functionality. Happy to chat about it. I became obsessed with documentation sites for a while there.

Just came to say, I still think this is the best balance between the many factors of running a dev team. I keep trying to recreate it in every tool I use.