Taylor Schaack

GenAI Image Showdown A comparison of various SOTA generative image models on specific prompts and challenges with a strong emphasis placed on adherence.

Would love to see more open benchmarks like this for image editing, and other uses of LLM tools as well:
genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing

via @simonwillison.net

been looking for interesting data sets to practice data analysis and using llm's for analysis, so i used google takeout to grab my google search and acitivity data. large enough to be a challenge and super interesting. highly recommend.

Frustrated by the lack of testing tools in no-code platforms. I spend a solid 30-40% of my total time on a no-code build doing manual testing that could easily be automated on a project built with code. Who's doing testing automation for no-code platforms?

When using a chatbot interface, why in the world is it the standard practice to have the window auto scroll as the response is generated? who thinks people read from the end of a response to the beginning? unless you're using a slow local model, no one reads as fast as tokens generate.

Big 'first' today. Started scoping a no-code build for a client and thought to myself, "This would actually be easier to build with code." Progress!

Reading Andrej Karpathy's animals vs ghosts blog post (v interesting in its own right), and love that he included a link at the end of it to a ChatGPT conversation that's pre-loaded with his blog post as well as all of the context from the post (he references a podcast and an essay). So helpful.

we gotta figure out how to teach these llm's that it's okay not to know, you know?

If I had a nickel for every time a coding agent opened up a shell into a dev container and then just sat there...

But they do make you pay for all those privileges, and dearly. I've also found that all of the official apps from PBS avoid this garbage behavior.

Check out PokPok! None of the ad BS, very well designed, the mini games change over time, and most importantly, my kids love it.

So much of learning to build software for me has been understanding what I can safely ignore in a process. Guides, libraries, platforms, etc are just so rich with optional stuff, and I've always wanted to understand it all, but then never get anything done. Focus is so crucial.

Realizing just how much 'context engineering' applies to my own brain

Such a great way to use text classification.

git.sr.ht/~kqr/tagnostic

This is the kind of thing that vibe coding is making possible: flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

Looking for an open-source implementation of Duolingo Video Call, or at least a good system prompt to achieve a similar kind of flow.

Great writeup on the value of an open social protocol. Lately wishing I didn't have to pick between the people I want to follow and the platform they're on, so here's to hoping the open social timeline accelerates!

It's time we all got a bit more creative when writing demo projects for tutorials. Looking at the demo for using docker with django, and they named the sample project 'django-docker'. If you're a newcomer, `docker build -t docker-django .` is confusing as hell. Call it 'my-web-app' at the least..

If you're looking to vibe code a clone of some popular app, it's much easier to just find an open source version of it (there are plenty for just about everything out there), fork that version, and then just make your tweaks. Save yourself some tokens and trouble!

I know I'm dreaming here, but trying to imagine the world in which writers, scientists, developers, artists, etc are excited about contributing their works to an AI model. A world where access to that model is free for everyone and no one profits from it, it's just the people's model.

Window management in Mac OS is just wild to me. Although just discovered Settings > Desktop & Dock > Mission Control (Group windows by application) and I'm amazed that isn't default.

Seems inevitable that we will have fine tuned models for each language/framework combination. Kinda surprised I haven't run into one yet.

Thanks!

You mention around the 8 minute mark that there are some newer non-profit newsrooms that are doing really well. Any chance you might be willing to share a few of those? Always on the hunt for journalism that isn't horrible.

Setting up and using ssh keys has always given me way more trouble than it should

From a cost standpoint, seems like the tradeoff on web app v. mobile is that with web apps, server costs are significant but you get to keep nearly everything you make, while with mobile apps, server costs are insignificant but Google/Apple take a big cut. That about it?

Made a remarkable amount of progress on my first LLM-powered feature today. Slowed way down and planned more. Steady is fast and all that.

I've been an Excel guy for years, and so when I first encountered the idea of a NoSQL database I was v confused. Then I heard "we're optimizing for reads, not writes," and immediately understood.

Aaand turns out the problem wasn't with Google Groups, but entirely with me. This is why I don't post on socials.

Plowed through some tough Firebase authentication API stuff this morning and felt great about it. Then spent the past hour wrestling with the setup of a Google Group...

My loop seems to be spending 2-3 days bashing my head against all the internet/AI content about a topic, followed by a brief moment of clarity in which everything clicks. Today is a head bashing day unfortunately.