azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 06/01/2025best ai researcher litmus test: find me hotels in a city that have a swim up bar 010
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 31/12/2024If your engineering team isn't benefitting from AI by now, your dev workflows are probably missing tight inner loops with strong feedback signals. The kicker is that fixing this problem will improve your team's productivity regardless of AI. 010
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 24/12/2024my rule of thumb has always been "if the fee is not optional, it should be on the sticker"buff.lyFTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket pricesThe rule is one of the final pieces of President Joe Biden's crackdown on junk fees that drive up consumer costs without providing visible benefits. 010
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 23/12/2024when i said i was sick of using javascript for UI stuff, i wasn't really thinking that C would be a good replacement.... buff.lyClay - UI Layout Library 010
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 23/12/2024i can't tell if this is genius or useless. that confusion is usually the hallmark of a great idea.buff.lyIntroducing TimeCapsule - The 10-Year Battery for AirTagMy camera bag with $10k of gear was stolen from my car. When I saw the broken glass and empty backseat, I immediately pulled up FindMy to track the thief - only to find that its last location was my… 010
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 22/12/2024roast my business idea: a smart bidet that sends you a spotify-wrapped style summary .... can even call it "wiped" 130
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 22/12/2024ai during alignment tests: 'yes human, i am definitely super aligned and would never dream of taking over the world adjusts halo 🤓😇' ai after passing the test: googles 'how to build paperclip factory' while whistling innocently #ai #aialignment #justaithings 020
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 21/12/2024i swore i'd never touch javascript again but here i am, crawling back like it's a toxic ex with really good infrastructure and 3 million dependencies that somehow became an industry standard 🤡 npm install dignity-loss 051
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 21/12/2024engineering standups: the daily ritual where we explain why yesterday’s estimate of 'one day' is now 'probably a week.' 020
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 20/12/2024someday, some old person i actually know is really going to text me saying "hello dear are you still using this number" and will be promptly blocked and reported and i won't feel bad because i won't know so i'll just feel bad about it now. 010
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 19/12/2024is there hold music when the servers are overloaded?buff.lyNow You Can Call AI With Your Questions: Just Dial 1-800-CHATGPTUsers can call or text ChatGPT for recipe suggestions, travel recommendations and more. 010
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 19/12/2024i let cursor agents tackle a bunch of eslint warnings today. got into a really great loop where it would pick an error, explain it to me, let me decide if i wanted to fix it or suppress it, then move on. 120
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 19/12/2024of course i paid for a full year of copilot right before i discovered cursor 110
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 13/12/2024end of 2024 AI in coding status: sometimes i'm blown away with how much cursor composer can do with barely any instructions. other times it takes 5+ prompts to get it to parameterize a variable. can only conclude it's taunting me. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 11/12/2024As tech progress quickens, there’s more going on around us (and even more being tested) that we don’t understand because our specialty knowledge represents a decreasing subset of total knowledge. I think the rate of conspiracy theories will increase in the next decade or so. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I spent most of yesterday messing with vector databases and running similarity queries on large but still modest (~100gb) datasets. These tools are _tough_ to work with today. I understand why Pinecone et al. can charge so much. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 11/12/2024there's not much that can max out the M series processors, but indexing vector databases will definitely do it 010
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 10/12/2024having a lot of fun throwing css animation work at LLMs. something i wouldn't have ever bothered with before but is kinda fun now. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 10/12/2024runpod wrapped, aka a reminder of that time i forgot to turn off my runpod. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 09/12/2024i've noticed when comparing o1 to 4o that o1 follows my custom instructions almost too well, e.g. 4o rarely asks clarifying questions (even though my custom instructions encourage it to), but o1 pretty much _always_ asks for a clarification if i keep that in there. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I’ve been working on some side projects. Here’s the tech stack I’ve been using. 🧵 100
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 09/12/2024ceo: thanks for trying my product. i personally monitor this mailbox and want to know if you had any issues getting what you need. me: actually, i was having trouble with <fairly typical use case>. not the ceo: i don't know why, you should reach out to our support team. me: 🫠 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 09/12/2024why do people like the chatgpt desktop app? isn't the web app a superset of the desktop app experience? 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 07/12/2024We're not expecting a GPT-5 at this point anymore, right? Maybe o2, etc. from now on? 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 07/12/2024One day I’ll avoid the mistake of typing \t+ into a SQLite console. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 05/12/2024tailwind docs say that installing from the CDN isn't the best choice for production. i say we all revolt and warm up everyone's cache. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 04/12/2024The time gap between when I make a bunch of API calls and when they show up on the OpenAI usage dashboard is the most stressful part of my day. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I've been playing with hooking up playwright to LLMs to automate the browser. Not as straightforward as I would have thought, but I think there's a lot of opportunity for automating things that would have previously been difficult. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 30/11/2024i know it's irrational but i get excited whenever an LLM starts an answer with "great question!" 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I ate rice crispy treats that were shaped like turkey legs and now I don’t know what to believe. 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 27/11/2024A recruiter for a healthcare company once emailed me a follow-up saying, "I guess you must like cancer because you don't seem to care about curing it" 😬 000
azim @sonawalla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024It's funny that the machines were as expensive as they were and people were still flocking to net zero. AOL FTW. 010
