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Interesting device from Scott Tolinski here. Looks like a fun, novel build for a problem he has that no one else is going to just build for him. I like how he was able to build it with such cheap and available hardware. I’m not sure how I feel about this single purpose device movement. Coming from a generation who dreamed of the phones we have today it feels weird to go the other way.

The state of agentic coding is one of my favorite new podcasts of late. The name sounds just like the same slop as everything else, but Ben and Armin are top tier hosts that actually do this stuff for work and on the side. slowing down and speeding up # Which brings me to the first intersting topic they talked about. Both talked about going slow at work. Ben still reads everything and deeply understands the insode of what he is working on. Home is a different story. At home both are cranking on new side projects, vibing them out quick and fast. The projects work for them and thats all they need. They dont need to support hundreds of users. All making it much easier to just let thr clanker kick new things out fast. open weight # An interesting side topic on open weight models. Armin opened with them being too expensive. The big labs have such good subsidies right now that it’s hard to justify not using them. He did have an interesting use case though. He has a side project using cheap Chinese carplay devices. When trying to get openai to work on them it tends to refuse to work for security reasons, but if he starts thr session with kimi, openai has no problems continuing. This is ne…

This is such a cool site. It parses lex’s transcript and sets the speed for lex and the guest at different speeds, so you can get through his super long episodes quicker without sacrificing the guest responses.