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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 18/05/2026

Are you at the airport too?

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 18/05/2026

On my way to San Francisco🤩. First time in California. First time in Silicon Valley. And I'm going for Google I/O. 🤯 Also I recently started a new instagram channel. So if you want the unfiltered version, follow along👇😊

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 15/05/2026

✨ new video in the making.. ...everything you always wanted to know about 🤗 Transformers.js

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Thanks to everyone who joined us on the Gurten. see you next year 🏔️ And a huge thanks to Matthias, Christian, @johanngyger.com, Roland, Christof, Marco and Tobias for organizing this with me!

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And my on-stage-contribution this year? I got to moderate the open source panel with @benburtenshaw.bsky.social, @jonny.io, Panos Vagenas and @rjourdan.com.

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@devdevcharlie.com closed the day with creative and experimental AI interfaces, demoed live on stage. perfect way to end a conference.

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@osanseviero.bsky.social walked through what Gemma4 means for on-device AI. New benchmarks, solid technical depth.

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Imanol Schlag gave us a behind-the-scenes look at Apertus, a fully open research project from Switzerland. can't wait for 1.5.

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over 300 attendees enjoyed a sunny and inspiring day on the Gurten. This year with a second stage and a focus on valuable insights, optimized solutions, and lessons learned from running AI apps in production to share with the developer community. A few highlights from the talks:

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 29/04/2026

My learning from Uphill Conf '26: being a speaker is so much easier than being an organizer 😅 After the last two years on stage, I switched sides. Nine months of prep, a lot of group chats, and one very humbling ropes course at the speaker event later, we pulled it off!

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I really enjoyed this conversation with the @neciudan.dev! We covered a lot.. how I went from Ski instructor to ML engineer and how Transformers.js lets you run ML models directly in the browser to WebGPU, quantization, agents, and what frontend devs should actually focus on🤗

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 26/03/2026

I'm working on something pretty exciting🥰

🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 11/03/2026

Install it with one command: npx skills add github.com/huggingface/... --skill transformers-js github.com/huggingface/skills

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GitHub - huggingface/skills

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 11/03/2026

Getting started with AI in the browser has never been easier 🤗 Today we're releasing the Transformers.js #AgentSkill, your shortcut to running ML models in the browser. It provides all the information your coding agent needs to add on-device AI to your web app.

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 24/02/2026

TranslateGemma 4B by Google now runs 100% in your browser on WebGPU with Transformers.js v4. 55 languages. No server. No data leaks. Works offline. A 4B parameter translation powerhouse, right in your browser. Try the demo 👇

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 21/02/2026

The lineup is going to be fantastic, and almost all of the speakers have been announced (but not all of them yet 😉). Get your tickets now! uphillconf.com/tickets/

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Tickets | Uphill Conf

Get your Uphill Conf 2026 tickets! May 7-8 in Switzerland. Full-day AI workshops + conference day with international experts. Student & group discounts availabl

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 21/02/2026

Exciting news: this year I'm joining the organizing team of @uphillconf for the first time! 🎉 For the past two years, I've had the opportunity to give a talk, and each time it was a fantastic experience. That's why I decided to actively participate in the planning this year😊

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 13/02/2026

That would be like hammering in a screw with a hammer and then complaining about how bad the hammer is.

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 13/02/2026

I've seen several posts lately that share some edge cases in AI conversations where the AI makes mistakes. Of course, this is to show how bad AI still is. AI is a tool. If it produces incorrect or unusable results, it is not the tool that is at blame, but the person who is using it incorrectly..

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 09/02/2026

Read everything about the release in our blogpost. huggingface.co/blog/transfo... And please try it out, we'd love to hear your thoughts!

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 09/02/2026

🤗 Transformers.js v4 preview is now available! npm i @huggingface/transformers@next And its huuuuge! I don't think a single line of code remained untouched😄. New build system, monorepo structure, and tons of new features!

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 08/02/2026

I have no idea what you're talking about. Those are clearly very happy, well-lit plants. In the event of contradictory statements, I reserve the right to take legal action..

🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 08/02/2026

We rearranged our apartment a bit and I had to move my office. A good time for some new paint and a few new plants🥰.

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At the end of last year, AI agents really came alive for me. Partly because the models got better, but more so because we gave them the tools to take their capacity beyond pure reasoning. Now coding a...

I fully agree with DHH on this: "pure vibe coding remains an aspirational dream for professional work for me, for now. Supervised collaboration, though, is here today." world.hey.com/dhh/promotin...

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Promoting AI agents

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The lesson: AI coding tools work best when you establish clear structure upfront. The time you invest in architecture pays dividends in maintainability and makes AI assistance more effective, not less.

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Fintrack, on the other hand, is a joy to work with. It has a robust foundation and architecture that makes it easy for both me AND the AI agent to know where features belong and how to reuse existing logic.

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Components bloat, there's no clear structure for sharing logic or components, and the codebase becomes increasingly fragile.

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For Pumpel, I ran a pure conversation experiment: How far could I get without even looking at the code? And yes, it works. But I don't like it. Worse, adding new features through prompting gets progressively harder.

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I approached each project with different levels of "vibe coding." For Fintrack, I wrote most code myself or carefully reviewed every line. I wanted to understand exactly where data is stored and how it flows through the system (for obvious reasons 😅).

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All three started as spreadsheets I'd been using for months or years. Now they have proper UIs and additional features. Why the upgrade? AI made it possible 🥰 But here's what I learned:

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