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Motivation I have a small side project in the works: Kanjiland . It’s a reading comprehension engine for Japanese language learners. It’s a model trained to help identify the structure of Japanese text. Raw Japanese goes in, structured grammar and annotated furigana comes out. If you’re an intermediate or advanced Japanese language learner, this model is for you™ . To train this…
Remember the time when TUIs and terminal-based apps seemed like silly gimmicks? I would have chortled (yes, chortled) at the thought. Yet, here we are now. TUIs now seem like one of the smartest product decisions Anthropic could have made. It’s interesting to relect on Cursor vs Anthropic’s approach to the coding interface problem. Because 6 months ago, it sure seemed like Cursor was…
If you’re building a developer tool right now, you probably have a launch plan: Post it on Show HN. Grind for GitHub stars. Maybe host a hackathon or two. You know, the standard playbook. I suspect this playbook will soon become obsolete. Not because it doesn’t work on humans, but because humans are no longer the ones choosing the tools. It’s not that humans have left the loop. A…
A few weeks ago, while refactoring some of my old code, I asked an LLM to write a RingBuffer implementation in TypeScript. I’ve written these before in other languages. I know the tricky edge cases, especially around concurrency. To my surprise — and mild horror — the LLM wrote it flawlessly. Better than I could have. No feedback necessary. No vibing at all. Then I asked it to build…
OpenClaw launched last week. If you haven’t tried it yet, it’s essentially a way for AI to control your computer on your behalf. You describe what you want done, and it does it—clicking, typing, navigating, the whole thing. It’s impressive technology. But the most interesting thing about OpenClaw isn’t what it can do. It’s what it means for the companies that have…
Something strange is happening with Mac Minis. They’re selling out everywhere, and it’s not because people suddenly need more coffee table computers. If you browse Reddit or HN, you’ll see the same pattern: people are buying Mac Minis specifically to run AI agents with computer use. They’re setting up headless machines whose sole job is to automate their workflows.…