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There are at least three inference markets
One way to slice the inference market is to cluster workloads by intelligence saturation. How much intelligence and consequently what type of model do you need for each task?At least three markets with distinct characteristics emerge from this line of thi
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Intelligence Saturation
I've been trying to understand how intelligence saturation affects model selection. Do certain tasks really need frontier models or can we get by with a previous generation of closed source models or open-weight models?I've found it easiest to reason thro
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Build your own benchmarks
There's no such thing as a good AI model, only a model that is good for your workflow. To see this, you have to build your own benchmarks.Every major model launch comes with the same kind of benchmark table: MMLU, GPQA Diamond, Humanity's Last Exam, SWE-b
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Tinkering Machines
Recently, I spent several hours getting Claude Code to reverse-engineer the API for my Wyze smart bulbs. By the end, I had a small dashboard that turned the lights on and off and ran through some preset scenes I'd made up.I didn't have to do this.The Wyze
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Semantic git
The core premise of git is that you version-control individual characters. If I make a one-character change in a file, that is considered a diff.This character-by-character version control works when humans write code, because character-level changes map
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How to transfer craft to agents
A style reference in Midjourney captures the feel of an image. It doesn't copy any content. It captures things like texture, lighting, and color palette.Suppose I love the image on the left and want to create something that feels similar. I copy its style
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Investing in BoldVoice
When I first tried BoldVoice, it immediately captured what makes an AI-native consumer experience feel truly magical.BoldVoice is a voice coach for non-native English speakers, designed to guide you through the many nuances of fluency: pronunciation, rhyt
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Your agent needs an inbox
Conductor is a coding IDE that lets you run a bunch of coding agents in parallel. If you're used to tab autocomplete or terminal-based agents like Claude Code, Conductor's approach feels fundamentally different.We made a Mac app that lets you run a bunch
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Every programmer will be fullstack
Just a few years ago, if you wanted to ship production-grade software, you had to raise a small army.You'd recruit a frontend engineer to build React components and optimize loading times, a backend engineer to design APIs and manage database queries, a D
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LLMs as Interface Compilers
Sonnet 4 has a relentless desire to make artifacts unprompted. It's sometimes jarring but, very often, useful.I find artifacts (or canvases in ChatGPT) most useful when a chat thread gets too dense or when I need something I can point at or interact with.
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