johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 08/05/2026ai is amazing because it allows you to go "what if dancing baby, but with particles spawned at high gradient values which have boids-like mechanics influenced by optical flow" and your computer shits out a gpu accelerated version in like an hour 151
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026again, this is really unpolished, sloptastic stuff. and i suspect mario will release something better (wtf is server?) but i use it most of the day and it serves my needs well, so it may help you, too 110
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026besides chat, you have access to: - files - diff - terminal (ghostty-web) - scratchpad 110
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026you can also speak to it if you are accessing it over a https tunnel (browser limitation — http not allowed for mic) 110
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026you can also press play on a message if your machine supports it — you know, in case you are holding a baby 110
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026and this is a session. its as unobtrustive as possible. sessions serialize to pi's default. your .pi will still load correctly. again, it's mostly a thin wrapper that lets connect to workstation pi from my phone and laptop. 100
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026this is the starting page on my workstation right now. i'm on my macos machine though, accessing it over my tailnet. my workstation has my gpus and data. 100
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026i've been using pi since january. i love it. it's vim; it's my work bench; it's my LISP. one of the things i sloptastically accumulated was an webui that uses RPC to make my life easier with baby. had no plans to share it but a teammate likes it so...ok 140
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 22/04/2026me using the `--guidance` flag of my auto research tool to "gently" nudge it to doing the thing my brain says it is stupidly failing to see for 9 experiments in a row: 140
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 21/04/2026one shot generated on new chatgpt image model 040
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 13/04/2026did a bad feature extension to my pi ui / orchestrator and now the TTS sounds somewhere between drunk and like a babbling infant 110
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 13/04/2026via @mitsuhiko.at mitsuhiko.github.io/talks/ai-eng... 140
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 04/04/2026what's going on here? i...never saw this before? 100
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 01/04/2026yea i think so far. right now its basically prompt -> code automatically. def think it has potential though 140
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 30/03/2026wrote this in january 2021 the future resolved itself 230
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 30/03/2026is blocking a very large number of people expensive for the platform or is it packed in a probablistic data structure to lower the cost? because blocking everyone in #2 is probably the most high value thing i can do 4210
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 30/03/2026nothing says the bagholder window is closing quite like this 110
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 29/03/2026also some weird stuff. (this is what i will release) 110
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 28/03/2026i’ve never seen a better user interface than the fill line on the new soda stream bottles 000
