tonyoconnell

This is why I switched to Astro/React in 2024. I wonder where I would be now if I had stuck things out. Svelte is very fast and elegant. I found that I can use Astro for anything I thought I might need NextJS for though.

It's a beautiful language

Last week, my wife who grew up in a hilltribe away from the modern world was using Gemini for this exactly. She found out that some face cream she bought was fake. I've been working with AI for the last 8 years. I didn't want to pollute her mind with AI and tech because I love the way she walks around thinking about fruit and trees and nature but she learned how to use AI by herself. She uses it for learning how to do things in "the city" like booking airplanes and hotels and asks Gemini questions all the time.

"Less than 10% of those interactions fully automate tasks." - that's because they are measuring use of Google's models. People are using Antrophic's models for automation and coding. My wife is from a tribe in the mountains where they live like they live off the land, cooking with fire like they did 1000 years ago. She uses Gemini to learn how to live in the city - book flights and hotels, stuff like that. I use Claude Code every day to automate my tasks. Google has a very different type of user than Antrophic and Open AI.

good idea. who did you use to print it?

Almost exactly the same for me

A blast from the past. I used his scripts for sending email from forms. The internet was a very nice place back then.

The narrative is moving towards KYC

What it is

Apple's Foundation Models framework (shipping in iOS 27 / macOS 27 this fall) is the standard Swift API for on-device AI — the same API Apple uses for their own small model. This package makes Claude plug into that same API as a drop-in swap.

  // Apple's on-device model
  let session = LanguageModelSession(model: SystemLanguageModel.default)

  // Claude — same API, just different model constructor
  let session = LanguageModelSession(model: ClaudeLanguageModel(name: .sonnet4_6, auth: auth))

One API, two tiers. You write your app once against the Foundation Models protocol. On-device model handles fast/free/private tasks; Claude handles heavy reasoning, long context, or capability gaps — you swap the model, not your code.

You don't call the Anthropic API directly. Apple's framework handles streaming, tool calling, and structured output (@Generable) — you just get Claude's capability through it.

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i gave claude code my design system that i built in figma and haven't opened it again. it's much faster designing with your voice.

just wondering... do you think bun's rewrite with ai was vibe coded or engineered with ai? i know it wasn't perfect in the beginning but i think it was good engineering and what was built will make it faster and better.

you can actually do everything most people do in next with vite/astro. i was worried to do it but i haven't ran into any problems i couldn't solve.

the dx is wonderful if you give claude code your global api key. and the price is amazing. you can deploy complex web apps for free. i love vite and astro which is built on vite. i ran both on cloudflare before they were bought by them. i'm happy. at least they weren't bough by adobe.

so we shouldn't talk to humans when an ai can give an answer?