toddmorey

I think that's the right approach and what I've been experimenting with. Diagram as code and then style transfer from output diagram to desired look. That's where I've had the most…

I mean, one of its flagship features is to make precise edits to images. And it's really good at it... until it randomly isn't.

Yeah, that’s very well put. They don’t store black-and-white they store billions of grays. This is why tool use for research and grounding has been so transformative.

Confident idiot: I’m exploring using LLM for diagram creation. I’ve found after about 3 prompts to edit an image with Gemini, it will respond randomly with an entirely new image. Another quirk is it w…

GitHub seems to suggest banners or “Also consider ways to notify the user in other communication channels such as email, notifications, or a push notification in the GitHub app.” On MacOS… emails and …

When async notifications arrive from background processes… How is the user notified? (Not defending toasts, just curious how to do it better.)

Wait I don’t get it. CF is free for your use case, but you are looking for a cheap CDN? What’s cheaper than free?

Everything in tech becomes ad-supported bullshit even if you pay for it. Tech knows no other business model with consumers besides devaluing the product to grow large enough to be another shitty ad p…

I thought it was kinda funny that Google Slide’s own built in “beautify this slide” button converts the whole slide into an uneditable image.

In some ways, the fact that the technology will shift is the problem as model behavior keeps changing. It's rather maddening unstable ground to build on. Really hard to gauge the impact to custom…

We can't help but overreact to every new adjustment on the leader boards. I don't think we're quite used to products in other industries gaining and losing advantage so quickly.

The Apple App Store is full of scam apps. It’s all the disadvantages of a walled garden with none of the supposed advantages for users. In that way, the App Store itself is a scam.

labelstud.io is also great, open source + highly configurable, and supports audio and time series data. I’ve been doing a project with it for video annotation.

Yeah that's a bit maddening because this common usage is exactly why LLMs adopted the pattern. Perhaps to an exaggerated effect, but it does seem to me we're looking for over-simplistic tell…

The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams.

Not a word or whisper about environmental impact, either. I mean at least do some hand waving or something. I feel like a habitable planet is a fundamental right.

My understanding is it means half of what a subscriber pays is spent just on the compute required as you chat with the models. Which leaves the other have to be divided up among salaries, marketing, R…

50% margins would be actually low and concerning for a saas business. What makes software an attractive business is how well it scales. The standard for saas has been at least 80% or higher margins. M…

I worry that almost all the 2025 startups I've seen are AI app builders. Where are the novel new applications? I get that codegen is currently one area where AI does well, but it also feels like …

Yes that's right. The inference costs in isolation are interesting because that speaks to the unit economics of this business: R&D / model training aside, can the service itself be scale…

Good grief, you can't even scroll that thing

Remember in image editing, the source image itself is a huge part of the prompt, and that's often the source of the ambiguity. The model may clearly understand your prompt to change the color of …

As others have pointed out, LLMs were not involved in the project from the article. But this transition will happen quickly—fast food chains are ruthless about efficiency and ordering from a discrete …

You may be right. But we have a Model S 85D from 2015 and basically everything was replaced (seats, all door handles, ac compressor, sun roof, glove box, gauge cluster LCD, main LCD, MPU) except the…

I did laugh at loud at "They lift others up. Literally, in my case."

The content that feels so vapid (and unfortunately makes a high percentage of what's on there) are the ones where the post itself is the entire body of work. The Photoshop a quote on the wall typ…

Designers, developers, producers—anyone involved in the supply chain.

That software reality you describe is not too far off. Not with LLMs alone, but definitely seen the software copy machines accelerate. Any novel idea launched on an app store that sees any traction or…

I hear you, but the fellah in the org who says "Don't blame me ,I made this purchasing decision because they paid the most to an analyst firm" is definitely the neck I want to choke.

Yeah poorly phrased, but swyx is a good & kind dude who will do just about anything to hep folks out. I think he's just understandably frustrated with a dated (and rather parasitic) business …