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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 10/09/2025

Just me that's seeing MacOS `contactsd` and `Autofill` processes regularly hold the CPU hostage for arbitrary reasons?

screenshot of macos' activity monitor showing contactsd process using >300% CPU, with lots of AutoFill processes

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 07/09/2025

I wanted to try Claude in XCode. Apple: You need the XCode beta. Me: Ugh ok. Apple: But first you need the MacOS beta. Me: Ugh ok. Anthropic: You did all that? You also need a paid Claude account. No API key. I think they don't want us using it.

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 02/09/2025

I wanna see a new take on "Her", except: The tension isn't that your AI girlfriend is poly and runs off with mega brain AI. The tension is that the corporate overlords behind your AI girlfriend exploit your love for it. Furthering their corporate interests. Or under pressure from the government.

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 27/08/2025

From the Lovable discord: "I’m trying to build an agent that can actually execute real tasks, like creating projects, uploading files, and managing user data. However, none of the functions I’m building actually work in practice."

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 08/08/2025

So is ChatGPT 5 passing the vibe test?

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 04/07/2025

This direction was such a surprise to me, but I love it: Using coding agents where you are, instead of just in the IDE: First Slack and now web and mobile. Building software is no longer just tied to being hunched over a keyboard for endless hours.

Screenshot of Cursor's update notification talking about using agents on web or mobile

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 24/06/2025

I've been experimenting with background agents the past few days to see how far I can get hands off. I'm finding it's a huge kickstart for getting the scaffolding and basics up and running, but then I still need to come in and polish things in a more iterative way

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 20/06/2025

Just saw the update on Cursor's Slack integration - cooler than I thought! I assumed it was just sending you updates on background agent status, but it actually lets you launch an agent. It will read the context from the thread as well

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 07/06/2025

Random "well why not?" project I'm working on today thanks to AI making coding easier: Making a web app that syncs data from my smart scale, so I don't need the terrible proprietary app on my phone. I had no idea there was a (very poorly supported) BLE API for the browser, but the LLM did.

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 05/06/2025

Cursor Background agent is borked for me - you too? I just updated to 1.0 and it's stuck on this now ☹️

Tooltip saying "Failed to start Background Agent. [internal] internal
error - Try Again"

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 04/06/2025

AI spending is growing incredibly - so much money going into this. Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Google and Meta: - expected to top $345 billion this year, up 41% from 2024 - data center business is going to be up 73% from 2024 (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology podcast)

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 30/05/2025

This week's fun test - which model can identify these people ❌ Claude 4 ❌ ChatGPT 4.1 ❌ ChatGPT 4.5 ✅ Gemini 2.5 Flash

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 29/05/2025

@justinjackson.ca @briancasel.com a few weeks ago you said folks should message you on a Thursday morning in case you haven't got guests sorted for The Panel this week. I'd love to chat! I can share a bit about the SaaS I launched last year that's now on autopilot, and what I'm working on next

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 27/05/2025

I've been trying to find the right orchestration tool for my use case: Building a simple RAG workflow using Pinecone as the vector store. I ended up liking windmill.dev the most

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 25/05/2025

Can someone start a blog of all the shit AI companies use for promotion cos they're so navel gazey they don't realise how dystopian and nightmarish it is?

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 23/05/2025

So much news in the past couple of weeks - google Jules - openAI Codex - Anthropic new models

Yoshi Yoshitani @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Reposted by Tom Elliot

People will show you a picture and say “this is me when I was younger” — every picture of you is you when you were younger! Show me a picture of you when your older—holy shit let me see that camera

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 21/05/2025

Oh dang, what an exit for a design firm. Jaw dropping.

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 20/05/2025

MSFT's latest add to the ever growing AI ecosystem: NLWeb (Natural Language Web) The goal: Give web sites an easy way to share info with agents. Biggest announcement: Allrecipes is on board. Your agent won't need to read a life story to get the recipe. github.com/microsoft/nlweb

github.com

GitHub - microsoft/NLWeb: Natural Language Web

Natural Language Web. Contribute to microsoft/NLWeb development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 18/05/2025

"A theoretical squish velocity can be calculated from the instantaneous displacement of gas across the inner edge of the squish region..." TIL "squish" is a technical term in the design of combustion engines

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 16/05/2025

This is the image you need to use on your website if you are in financial services. All the best companies are using it. It's a winner.

bird's eye view of a kayaker alone in the ocean

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 15/05/2025

Anyone using beehiiv's audio newsletter feature? (as a content creator)

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 15/05/2025

I've been messing around with new tools (n8n, pinecone, etc). This stuff is so impressive. Click one button and all the infrastructure for a db gets spun up for you in seconds, and then you just press another button to tear it down again.

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 14/05/2025

Is anyone using Langflow for AI workflow development? I'm trying to wrap my head around a few concepts.

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 13/05/2025

Building out a little RAG test with Langflow - pretty handy!

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 09/05/2025

Is there a subreddit keeping track of dark mode as a siren call to unfocused product teams?

Screenshot from google cloud console showing a tooltip informing the user about "Dark mode Public Preview"

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 09/05/2025

This caught me by surprise

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 08/05/2025

The official MCP server registry is just seeing the light of day. They're working out what it will and won't do - I wrote a short set of notes here in case you want to get up to speed

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 07/05/2025

MCP servers are super insecure for now. This is a great example of how haywire it can get: Chrome extensions can access MCP servers and there's nothing to stop them using the MCP's tools, like reading files and exfiltrating them.

blog.extensiontotal.com

Trust Me, I’m Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape

Let’s talk about MCPs. You’ve probably heard of them, and maybe you’ve read the security risks associated with them. Sure, they sound…

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 07/05/2025

Microsoft's Azure revenue grew 35%YoY 🤯 Is OpenAI's usage really that high?

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 07/05/2025

I'm finding deepwiki.com super helpful to explore a package I'm considering using - helping me find out where I can hook in if I only want to use part of the functionality

deepwiki.com

DeepWiki | AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo

DeepWiki provides up-to-date documentation you can talk to, for every repo in the world. Think Deep Research for GitHub - powered by Devin.

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 02/05/2025

Whenever I brush my teeth with my electric toothbrush, Android's Now Playing feature identifies it as Hard To See by Five Finger Death Punch open.spotify.com/track/4vzPsf...

open.spotify.com

Hard to See

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 01/05/2025

Anthropic are doing a big pro tier for Claude. $200/month gets you bigger rate limits (no more "wait 8 hours please") techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/a...

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 30/04/2025

Llama 4's scores on LM Arena got downgraded - their initial scores weren't using the vanilla model, they were using a model tuned to perform well on the benchmarks. techcrunch.com/2025/04/11/m...

techcrunch.com

Meta's vanilla Maverick AI model ranks below rivals on a popular chat benchmark | TechCrunch

One of Meta's newest AI models, Llama 4 Maverick, ranks below rivals on a popular chat benchmark. Meta didn't originally reveal the score.

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 30/04/2025

I thought Webflow's MCP server wasn't going to be useful when I first heard about it. I gave it a quick test today - I guess I was wrong. If you're curious you can get an idea of how it's useful here: youtu.be/DboeEWgxAu0

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 28/04/2025

Clearly someone's coming for the king. It only just occurred to me how much inspiration OpenAI is taking from Google. You see it right on the homepage.

Screenshots of ChatGPT and Google's homepage showing the similarity of their UX.

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 24/04/2025

I've been messing around with Google's Agent2Agent. Early hot take: The work to build a reliable agent is equivalent to building standard software. The only efficiency gain is: You can put less work in and do a poor job: You can rely on the end user arguing with your agent to get to their outcome.

github.com

GitHub - google/A2A: An open protocol enabling communication and interoperability between opaque agentic applications.

An open protocol enabling communication and interoperability between opaque agentic applications. - google/A2A

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 17/04/2025

The most important things from OpenAIs releases this week? Their Evals API. Making evals first class citizens in their ecosystem. platform.openai.com/docs/api-ref...

platform.openai.com

OpenAI Platform

Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 16/04/2025

Microsoft's 1bit LLM is out in the wild! It's a big step: Enabling LLMs on smaller devices, faster processing and less energy usage. mcps.sh/the-ai-gloss... More links below if you want to check out more

mcps.sh

Keeping you up to date on AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP)

The most important updates on how AI is changing, and changing the world with it

Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 11/04/2025

Some notes on developing an MCP server I wrote, hopefully a bit of a kickstart if other folks are interested in developing one too

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 09/04/2025

Dang this is super handy: supabase.com/ui/docs/next... Supabase have released a set of UI blocks to help with a bunch of standard things (like login flows, realtime collaborator cursors). They've got both the UX component and the Supabase implementation to copy/paste.

supabase.com

Realtime Cursor

Real-time cursor sharing for collaborative applications