kaushalvivek

One-handed finger swiping to type doesn’t work as reliably as it used to either. I am not sure why.

My recent experiment has been very disappointing. Mostly post upgrading to iOS 26? I’ve had to painfully change my behaviour to two-handed typing by default.

My suspicion— they’ve changed the ML system that inferred words based on swipes, and the new one isn’t as good in real world use.

A timeline of important events in artificial intelligence, curated and maintained by AI. It lists key breakthroughs, models, and inventions from the 1700s to today. The goal is to show how AI has progressed over time, step by step.

Without concrete examples, this reads like an advertisement.

I am personlly very bullish on post-traning and fine-tuning. This artice doesn't do justice to the promise.

The controversy of the decision aside, I think this is a very well written piece of honest, unfiltered, uncomfortable communication to customers.

As a DAU of Arc, I understand and respect the decision.

Hex -- voice to words: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

In general, I think voice to text for productive work (e.g. prompting cursor) isn't getting much attention. Hex is a great tool, that works locally on top of open models, and is quite reliably.

I feel the essence here is -- iterative writing improves both the prose and the core point.

When you write well, you iterate. When you iterate, you improve both the prose and the core point -- because you crystalize ideas further.

This makes improvements in these seemingly perpendicular directions counterintuitively correlated.

Ironically I found this specific PG essay uncharacteristically obtuse. This could have been much shorter.

“killing your ego” might promise tranquility, but it also means sacrificing a part of what drives us to become more than what we are today.

Honor your ego. Seek peace, be kind, and stay receptive to feedback—but don’t mistake that for erasing your self-worth.

This reminds me of Benn Stancil’s post — “The posters decide”

Winners in the tech space are increasingly pre-determined by VC-influencer cos/ individuals, who create the buzz around products.

https://benn.substack.com/p/the-posters-decide

The combination of computer vision with analytical and creative AI is revolutionary. Multi-modal LLMs are going to change everything. Here are some very real reasons why you should be paying attention

Saw this video on Knot Theory a while back — the developments in this obscure branch of mathematics have been phenomenal in the last century, with wide-ranging impact.

https://youtu.be/8DBhTXM_Br4?si=vDfNBPXpj4OMfLPY

Rather than venting, the civilisation would probably convert CO2 to a different compound, on the same planet.

I had a professor at college who mandated Racket as the mode of learning for a software engineering course. I remember how Racket just ended up taking centre stage, figuring language-specific concepts and hacks out let the larger engineering concepts fade into the background.

I did not learn much in that course.

I wonder if the core idea here is limited to reading books, or if it extends seamlessly to articles, blogs and other quality content.

Fronk sounds like the Fight Club of the developer world. Convincingly wrapped in the busted-startup fabrication, the cult probably lives on. :')