Tim's personal blog
Yesterday Anthropic announced Sonnet 4.5 and together with that Claude Code 2.0. The prompt used for Claude Code is available in GitHub. This link diffs the prompt of 2.0 with the previous prompt: The revamped Claude Code prompt (GitHub), and a summary in this Twitter/X post. #llm
I have been using the dictation feature on my iPhone for several years. Initially, I was very skeptical. However, over time, I began using it more and more frequently and transferred this habit to my Mac as well. While the dictation got better and better (at least in my subjective opinion), I didn't like the idea of sending even more of my voice and, above all, even more of my content to Apple…
Manus.im ( invitation link ) is an impressive AI agent that can plan and execute multi-step tasks, including building complete React applications using pnpm and Vite. While Manus automatically deploys these applications to subdomains on their platform (like https://qoyzjxlp.manus.space/ ), you might want to host the application on your own domain for better branding, SEO benefits, or simply to…
Motivation Why would you want to run a complex beast like a large language model (LLM) locally? My main reasons are: 100% private – nobody is reading, storing and analysing my chats and all the uploads. Uncensored models – sometimes I'm indeed interested in the response, all while being aware that it might be biased and not aligned with the rules, values and ethics of the company that trained the…
Prompt engineering remains "very much alive—and more important than ever" according to Sander Schulhof, especially as companies integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into user-facing features and core functionalities. The following techniques are based on the interview with Sander Schulhof in Lenny's podcast from June 19, 2025 . Schulhof published The Prompt Report which describes and tests…
I recently came across uv on Simon Willison's blog . It is one of those tool that I adapted instantly and never looked back. The biggest advantages are: Speed – it is blazing fast* Compatibility – provides a pip-like interface, works with requirements.txt and supports pip sync, etc. uv tool and uvx – ad-hoc command-line tools without the manual virtualenv setup. *) I never really thought that pip…
This is the revival of my blog. You can subscribe to the RSS feed: https://toulas.ch/blog/?_t=rss It all started in 2006 when I bought my first domain. I never developed a habit of blogging regularly. And I don't expect that I will change that now. However, it's good to have a place to jot my thoughts down or to simply share interesting bits.