owenbrown
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Comment · 26 days ago
I hope this is helpful. I wish I'd read it 72 hours ago.
TLDR: Use ChatGPT Desktop or Claude Desktop to prototype when 1) there are many branches and screens, 2) you're working in a compiled language, or 3) backend logic is gnarly.
Comment · 2 months ago
Check out Quick Memory.
It’s a stripped-down, faster Obsidian. All rust, not html.
It’s small (zip < 7MB) and fast (launches in 300 ms, opens Moby Dick in < 300 ms).
Ping me if you use and something is missing.
It’s my daily note-taking app.
Comment · 3 months ago
I’m spending a significant portion of my day waiting for agents to execute.
What’s more interesting to me than time-to-first token or latency is the time it takes for the agent to execute, from starts to finish, excluding when it’s waiting on a human.
Comment · 4 months ago
PaaS like render.com explicitly support Docker.
As a developer, I wager that any gains I get from Podman will be dwarfed by bugs that I’m encountering in the other software I use.
I’m not implying that Podman causes the bugs. I’m saying that I’ll be more likely to be the first person to encounter the bug.
Comment · 7 months ago
You could try these techniques to get over the data sparsity.
It’s really cool, I’d love to see it smart.
Comment · 9 months ago
The other demos didn't work for me, so I made https://github.com/owenbrown/transcribe
It's just a python script to test the streaming.
Wow, Voxtral is amazing. It will be great when someone stitches this up so an LLM starts thinking, researching for you, before you actually finish talking.
Like, create a conversation partner with sub 0.5 second latency. For example, you ask it a multi part questions and, as soon as you finish talking, it gives you the answer to the first part while it looks up the rest of the answer, then stitches it together so that there's no break.
The 2-3 second latency of existing voice chatbots is a non-started for most humans.
Comment · 9 months ago
It would be interesting if someone built a platform like Brex or Expensify, to manage spending within these programs.
Something that balanced empowering participants and protecting their privacy, while also protecting them from financial abuse.
Comment · 10 months ago
A regular paper and pencil exam would be a better experience for the students.
Comment · 10 months ago
+ would be a much better experience for the students.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the goals are super-intelligences, which I'm defining as organization composed of humans and AI agents, are knowable.
I'd love feedback.
Comment · 1 year ago
This will destroy a lot of trust and between Apple and me.
When I buy Apple, I pay a premium price for a premium product.
The ways ads work, is that the ad revenue shows up in the company’s quarterly earnings, and very quickly the company has to increase ad load across every surface to meet earnings expectations. The user experience deteriorates, getting worse each year.
When I buy Apple, it’s based on my expectation that Apple will remain a premium, mostly ad-free experience for the life of the device. When, after my purchase, they make the product worse, like with the recent iOS update that rolled back usability, it destroys a lot of trust.
I will leave the ecosystem.
This is not in Apple’s long term best interests.
Comment · 1 year ago
This will destroy a lot of trust and between Apple and me.
When I buy Apple, I pay a premium price for a premium product.
I would rather you simple charge me more for my product.
The ways ads work, is that the ad revenue shows up in the company’s revenue, and very quickly the company has to increase ad load across every surface to meet earnings expectations. The user experience deteriorates, getting worse each year.
When I buy Apple, it’s based on my expectation that Apple will remain a premium, ad-free experience for the life of the device. When, after my purchase, Apple make the product worse, like with the recent iOS update that rolled back usability, it destroys a lot of trust.
I will leave the ecosystem.
This is not in Apple’s long term best interests.