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My AI harness is an external executive function
42+ min ago (564+ words) I built an AI setup to save money on tokens. It turned into the memory and focus my ADHD brain is missing. TL;DR: A messy AI agent wastes money. A messy ADHD brain wastes effort. The same thing fixes…...
Open Interpreter: Your App's New Brain? A Dev's Take on Local AI Agents
4+ hour, 56+ min ago (708+ words) Alright folks, let's talk about something that's been rattling around in my brain lately: Open Interpreter. Forget the hype-cycle, this isn't just another wrapper around an LLM API. This is a game-changer for anyone building web apps and SaaS products,…...
You Almost Never Think. That's Why Your Brain Doesn't Crash.
6+ hour, 57+ min ago (1496+ words) Recall your workday yesterday. You reviewed a PR. You traced a bug. You weighed two designs. All of it felt like thinking. Now count something specific: how many things did you decide for the first time — decisions nobody in your…...
My AI QA agent said "all features working." The canvas was blank. Here's what it was actually seeing.
6+ hour, 43+ min ago (459+ words) Back when I first delegated QA to an AI agent, it signed off on a tool with "all features working, pass." I opened the tool myself. The canvas was blank. The AI wasn't lying. In the environment it was looking…...
Can YAMNet Detect Unseen Sudden Sounds in Real Time? A 48-Stream Evaluation
7+ hour, 1+ min ago (1208+ words) There are many situations where we may want to monitor sounds that happen without warning, such as breaking glass or a car horn. Registering every possible sound in advance, however, is not realistic. Today, I am testing whether YAMNet can…...
Stop Prompting LLMs to do Legal Math. It's Broken.
7+ hour, 43+ min ago (536+ words) I've seen developers try to build "Financial AI Agents" by simply feeding them a PDF of Treasury rates and telling the LLM, "good luck." It fails every single time. You don't need better prompts. You need a deterministic execution layer…...
I gave my agent the right memory and it ignored it anyway
7+ hour, 20+ min ago (256+ words) A few weeks ago I was testing a support-agent setup — nothing fancy, just an LLM with a memory layer bolted on so it could remember basic facts about a user across sessions. Subscription tier, shipping address, that kind of thing....
Stop Sending Your Snores to the Cloud: Build a Privacy-First Sleep Guardian with Whisper-tiny and TCN on Raspberry Pi
7+ hour, 54+ min ago (433+ words) Let’s be honest: no one wants their private nighttime "soundtrack" (a.k.a. snoring or heavy breathing) being uploaded to a corporate server for "analysis." Yet, monitoring sleep health is crucial, especially for detecting potential Sleep Apnea or respiratory distress. In this…...
corpus-scrub 0.1.0: detecta y redacta PII y secretos en corpus de entrenamiento antes del entrenamiento LLM
7+ hour, 26+ min ago (130+ words) Los corpus raspados de la web contienen rutinariamente datos personales y credenciales. La literatura lo deja claro: GDPR y el art. 10 de la EU AI Act prohíben datos personales no estructurados en conjuntos de entrenamiento sin consentimiento. La solución barata…...
How I'd Design a Kafka-Based Payment Event Pipeline from Scratch
10+ hour, 15+ min ago (552+ words) Architecture walkthroughs tend to show you the polished version — the diagram that survived a whiteboard, cleaned up after the fact. What they skip is the sequence of decisions, tradeoffs, and dead ends that got there. That's what I want to…...