iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

After iterating... you end up with a new app at your finger prints. What a time to be alive ;)

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Step 3: Coded by Jules Finally, it’s time to build. I setup a repo that contains my spec as a README, and the screens that I want to build which have been downloaded from Stitch.

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Stitch generates UIs for mobile and web applications, making design ideation fast and easy.

Step 2: Designed by Stitch I use the spec to explore the design of the app. Here is the Stitch project: stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/272...

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Stitch - Design with AI

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Step 1: Starting with the Spec Captures what you are looking to build: it’s design and implementation. Sometimes I work with an AI to go deep on the definition up front, and other times I stay shallower and flush out the spec as I add more features.

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★ Stitching with the new Jules API The Jules team finished off another ship week with an initial version of their API, allowing you to integrate with your friendly asynchronous squid engineer. In this post I show how I use Stitch to design a native app that uses the new API...

Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 05/10/2025

Not a bad start to a Sunday… with the footy on TV and using Jules to build an iOS app that uses it’s new API… designed by Stitch. stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/272...

Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 23/09/2025

★ Pools of Extraction I’ve started to notice some patterns in how I work on software projects. I create throwaway projects to learn from, and large repos with a bunch of ideas in. I sometimes extract targeted repos from them…

Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 19/09/2025

And then we have the ability to share public projects. Being able to share your work to communicate and iterate is key... and we have more coming here too. I would love to see any projects that you are game to share. Here is one of mine... stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/180...

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Stitch - Design with AI

Stitch generates UIs for mobile and web applications, making design ideation fast and easy.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 19/09/2025

✨Stitch Design Variants: A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words? We have some great Stitch updates for you today, & I posted about a couple. At first I talk about design variants and how to use the fact that your brain can grok a lot of images very quickly... blog.almaer.com/stitch-desig...

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Stitch Design Variants: A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words?

My head has been in the world of code generation for the last few years. Now that I’m also thinking about design generation, I’m seeing a lot of similarities but also some fascinating d…

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 13/09/2025

Excited for you mate. Good peeps joining good peeps!

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 24/07/2025

It has been incredibly fun to see @aerotwist.com, Dimitri, and the team bring this to life. All of the power of the large variety of models, and you can just spec and ask for what you want. Delightful.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 24/07/2025

... for example, I often want to take an image and bring it to live with one of the new Google video models, so I ask for that and get a Breadboard flow that results in a running app: opal.withgoogle.com?flow=drive:/...

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Visual Editor

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 24/07/2025

I’m super excited about Opal, a new experiment from Google Labs. It has changed my habits. Instead of asking for something in an AI chat app, for some tasks I create a micro app on the fly… developers.googleblog.com/en/introduci...

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Introducing Opal: describe, create, and share your AI mini-apps- Google Developers Blog

Discover Opal, a new experimental tool from Google Labs, that helps you compose prompts into dynamic, multi-step mini-apps using natural language.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 15/06/2025

OH “We got too many Product Managers who were good at competitive analysis but not deeply technical, so we ended up with fear based copy cat roadmaps.”

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 15/06/2025

“Without the appropriate error handling, the null pointer caused the binary to crash.” status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow... Cue the Rust crowd…

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Google Cloud Service Health

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 09/06/2025

"no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else" — Bill Joy We have used open source as a way to leverage this, and now we are using LLMs with massive sets of knowledge as a form of leverage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s...

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Joy's law (management) - Wikipedia

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 03/06/2025

I use playwright-mcp to drive the browser, but why not go directly to CDP to get full access to networking and performance as well as DOM etc? Stefan Li wired this up with devtools/mcp! Love it! autoconfig.io/devtools-mcp...

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Give your coding agent browser superpowers with DevTools access via MCP

Give your coding agent direct access to Chrome DevTools Protocol through MCP, enabling it to inspect, interact with, and debug web applications at runtime.

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 29/05/2025

JVM devs, this one’s for you: Rod Johnson (Spring) just dropped an OSS agent framework. JVM-native, Kotlin-based, and focused on agentic flows mixing LLM-prompted interactions with code and domain models. #Java #Kotlin #AINativeDev #News #OSS

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 25/05/2025

Which group will be the AI and which the humans?

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 22/05/2025

One of the most interesting announcements at I/O got just a few seconds of airtime: Gemini Diffusion. A diffusion-based language model that: • Generates in parallel, not left-to-right • Hits ~1500 tokens/sec • Can self-correct mid-generation Read all about it here: www.ainativedev.co/99j

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 20/05/2025

If there are gaps that you want to fill in, this could have better results. It also allows for more parallelism, and doesn’t fall into the trap of being stuck on a path due to the words already generated. I’m keen to see how this works for codegen!!

Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 20/05/2025

And today we see the zag. We have another tool in the toolbox, diffusion models for text. This isn’t new, and has been talked about for some time. Unlike next token, diffusion by its nature is a good fit for generating text in a non-sequential manner…

Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 20/05/2025

Gemini Diffusion! I love a good zig and zag. We used to be in a world where image generation used diffusion techniques (from noise), and text used autoregresion (next token). ChatGPT added 4o image generation that went the other way and used autoregression …

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 16/05/2025

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_... Or wait no, it’s a CLI, oh wait no it’s a remote agent platform… and a new model family…

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OpenAI Codex - Wikipedia

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AI Native Dev @ainativedev.io · 08/05/2025

AI tools multiply, and so do config files. “This has all given birth to a plethora of rules files that we need to manage.” Vibe-rules CLI discovers and syncs them so you can code not babysit .yaml. Details ➜ www.ainativedev.co/nbp #AINativeDev #DevTools #AIDevelopment #CLI

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 07/05/2025

% parade list openai I've been enjoying building simple tools writing a spec and having them generated. `parade` uses Ink and Vercel's AI SDK to let me explore model names from various providers (because I am using the openai:gpt-4o type URI format in other tools). github.com/dalmaer/parade

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 11/04/2025

It’s a sin that this happened to Adam. A true world class frontend engineer and a world class human. I remember being so excited when we first spoke about him joining Chrome and then talking VisBug. And he’s gone from strength to strength. What an epic own goal.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 28/03/2025

Vibe coding is the Polaroid camera of development.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 26/03/2025

Excited to launch the landscape and start to really curate the tools that devs should be aware of as we use AI to get better and building software!

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 12/03/2025

I’m excited to get posting here about all things related to developing software with the new power of AI! #ainativedev

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 20/02/2025

I giggle whenever I see this in prompts: ``` IMPORTANT: Use valid markdown only for all your responses and DO NOT use HTML tags except for artifacts! ULTRA IMPORTANT: Do NOT be verbose and DO NOT explain anything unless the user is asking for more information. That is VERY important. ```

Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 19/02/2025

Late binding of choices is a good thing and helps with choice fatigue. Convention over configuration helps here, and LLMs being able to “fill in the gaps” takes it to a whole new level. It favors getting things working and iterating from there in a tight loop.

Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 13/02/2025

Voice is a great way to sculpt vs draw. You can be loose, go back and forth, and it isn’t about speaking the perfect thing which is what always held me back. Voice has become a real input for me these days. You?

Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 11/02/2025

It’s time for us to get fuzzy with it. @holdenmatt.bsky.social has written up his thoughts on how LLMs allow this fuzzy world. It feels different. It feels like sculpting clay vs drawing. You are still building, but in a different way. open.substack.com/pub/matthold...

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Fuzzy computing

Rethinking CS fundamentals through a "fuzzy" LLM lens

RAG beats Fine-Tuning in learning your code base | Tessl.io

Tessl: www.tessl.io/podcast/rag-... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3yef... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... YouTube: youtu.be/McsKNfWPsUM

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... Practically: how do you handle the fact that every engineer is working on their own branch with local changes? Please join me in your podcast viewing/listening application of choice in the comment below. I'm curious for your thoughts across these topics too! #ainativedev

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I also really enjoyed the discussion around fine-tuning and RAG. Once again the details matter. What does it mean to fine-tune a model on your codebase? What does fine-tuning do well in this situation, and where does it fall down? ...

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... applying systems that include LLMs to the practice of real world enterprise software. For example, many people talk about the importance of retrieval, but Augment has done the work to lead in this area. Context sure if king, but how do you make sure to get the right context?

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Guy Gur-Ari has a deep research background, and has built a world class research team at Augment, which I saw first hand. The team is amazing at applying research, and in the episode you get to hear about a lot of the learnings that have come from...

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... at companies in the space of software development in the new era where computers can communicate with us in natural ways, and can write code. And, @guygurari.bsky.social of @augmentcode.com, and @guypod.bsky.social crossed paths back when they were both in Israel!

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