bredren

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I build internet products and work extensively with generative AI.

Recent public projects include:

- Contextify: https://contextify.sh (A tool to assist CLI-based agentic programming workflows)

– FileKitty: https://github.com/banagale/FileKitty (a prompt engineering utility)

– Chief of Staff: https://chiefofstaffhq.com (a pre-generative AI text-to-speech SaaS)

I also very occasionally write at: https://banagale.com

Feel free to say hello, rob @ the domain above.

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Comment · 6 days ago
Many of the stories are good. The library also selects books that offer some stories reflecting diverse cultures.

Growing up in the 80s everything is white folks or animals but almost always it is about a boy or boys.

I think the baby books are still board books. Cordoroy’s Shapes is part of what I remember about our first’s earliest years. Reading it over and over. We even did a first birthday theme for it. My mom made triangle tarts.

After that they are floppy picture books. I suppose at this scale is is probably both economical and reflects some of the material involved.

That is just fine, though it’s just not the same as holding a hardcover.

Our kids don’t care about that, though. It’s more about the time and talking about the pictures and how well we ham it up.

Comment · 8 days ago
I took this as a demonstration of ownage on the latest release, versus an attempt to show some jailbreak-only feature.

The evidence of hack is the feature.

Comment · 9 days ago
Sounds interesting. Can you provide some examples of stuff you've used it on?
Comment · 10 days ago
> AI discovering that aliens exist?

I wonder if this would turn even the most stalwart opponents around.

I could see discussion about such an announcement focusing on exactly what qualifies as an "alien."

Comment · 10 days ago
> all sorts of insane tasks that would have taken infinitely longer and been unbelievably painful on my own

Your use case here is beyond mine, but I have used custom tooling to handle contractor bid process workflows for projects at our home.

AI applied to products will allow people to not only consider but actively move on changes that did not seem reasonably possible before.

Comment · 10 days ago
I’m curious about this too, although I would somewhat hesitate to rely on that, except as a contributing point of information.

PHP2SHELL, in particular, made me expand my weekly security review to include my external network resources.

The natural conclusion for this seems to be realtime monitoring CVE and pre-CVE vulnerability indications in exposed stacks.

Comment · 15 days ago
Apple’s Photos ecosystem is privacy oriented and as a result some (now) baseline features require the use of local models.

The Foundation models keep a surprisingly decent set of data available for fast filtering by a local LLM.

I’ve found a slower, second pass, is needed by Qwen to clean it up. (I am running on the new Mac Mini m5 pro 64gb.)

I’ve run my own tests using a date range, a short description of a red cedar planter box build I did last year, and a set of known correct photos.

There is some cool stuff you can do without sending your family’s pics up to any of the frontier model providers.

Comment · 15 days ago
Do business accounts on FB provide user activity data, such as checkout completion, user acquisition funnels, or other useful labeling of web behavior?

Because the scrapes become more interesting once combined with such information.

Comment · 15 days ago
I wanted to look at your videos but they aren’t playing on my phone. Maybe it is noir? I would suggest embedding YouTube.

It has all the expected controls.

Comment · 18 days ago
Thanks for this.
Comment · 19 days ago
Clearly. But we’ve seen demonstrations of highly skilled folks being able to make outsized progress using LLM.

It can be an acceleration when wielded by someone who can keep the model focused.

Comment · 21 days ago
That “giant egg thing” is Lord Vader’s meditation chamber and coincidentally is also used to alleviate the discomfort of wearing his head mounted kit.
Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 24 days ago
Neat. Some of my earliest online contributions were to local dial-up BBSs. I spent entire days making animated ascii sequences in the theme of the board.

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