I landed in Tokyo! I am here for the Autumn 🍂

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Added a new chapter on custom adapter with Foundation Models; and that starts the Black Friday sale of 44% off! academy.rudrank.com/product/foun...

Thanks to tokenmaxxing, I have forgotten how to take time off and enjoy a vacation. That is sad

All of my books includes markdown, so you can easily chat about new concepts with your favorite LLM! academy.rudrank.com

I ordered my favorite butter chicken to celebrate because I have been able to double my hourly $ rate over the last year, thanks to AI

They are happy with my work and they offered me three months contract

Just sent the biggest update of @gradient_game since 2019! The approved one went live yesterday, and the current one is pending for review apps.apple.com/us/app/gradi...

New handle! Got the @rudrank.bsky.social Now it matches my X's @rudrank

Updated the introductory post about starting with MLX Swift with the latest syntax and repository! rudrank.com/exploring-ml...

2 weeks in, & I interviewed a designer today. 😆 It was fun, I am bad at taking interviews and giving them, so I just prefer to have a natural conversation on how it would be day-to-day, assuming they are already accepted. This gives me a good idea how I would like or not like to work with them

Coding today on Assassin's Creed Odyssey's main theme and it is so good music.apple.com/in/album/leg...

All of my books are available at 44% discount, for the Black Friday sale! You can use the BLACKFRIDAY coupon at checkout academy.rudrank.com

Did a new update for Chroma Game! It has a better UI for playing. I plan to add time-based mode + leaderboard for it soon. That will make it addictive, and more fun! apps.apple.com/us/app/color...

OnboardingKit 9.0 for #SwiftUI is out! This library makes it easy to create great onboarding experience, and has various onboarding types, flow views like page views and slideshows, and view templates like the new intro screen. github.com/danielsaidi/...

I have improved VecturaKit a lot this month, as I used it in a contract project for RAG + Foundation Models! github.com/rryam/Vectur...

Beyond an iOS Developer This year has been pretty cool for me. I started going beyond the tag of "iOS/macOS" developer and beyond Swift language, thanks to primarily Cursor and Claude models.

I have made more than I thought I would; but my beard has a few white hair strands. What a tradeoff

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I have created a few issues in the foundation models example that I will tackle with different LLMs and benchmark it. github.com/rudrankriyam...

Added a big section about guardrails and working with them in the chapter about safety on Foundation Models; Black Friday sale of 44% off! academy.rudrank.com/product/foun...

I went from movie soundtracks to game soundtracks while coding. Right now, it is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on loop. Just cannot get it out of my head. music.apple.com/in/album/lum...

Foundation Models testing workflow with xctrace: xctrace record --instrument 'Foundation Models' --output token-test.trace --launch my-cli -- token-test

Apparently I did not do my research well and it is sold out in Japan. 😆 I am so mad at myself lmao; I want to fly to Hong Kong now, so beautiful

New release of MusadoraKit. Reverted some code I pushed without testing, trusting LLM. Lessons learned. The repo has devs using at AND users dependent on their apps so I cannot fuck around & find out like that. But hey, now it also has a CLI to test! github.com/rryam/Musado...

I literally took up a contract because I wanted to buy Switch 2 without guilt. But money's purpose is to make you happy, right? What was the reason for the guilt in the first place? Maybe because I feel behind in the AI race, so I took up one that would make me push myself instead.

I have transferred the Foundation Models tools to my main packages organization, calling it FoundationModelsKit. It will have all the extensions and utilities that everyone can use with Foundation Models framework github.com/rryam/Founda...

The next 10 days will be spent on reading and optimizing the code! I used my open-source project(s) for reference on this, the foundation models example one and directly using VecturaKit for vector database

3 insane days of working hard on this freelance project; still have not written a line of code myself. Just prompting and dictating to a bunch of clankers.

Cracked the foundation models guardrail; grateful to permissiveContentTransformations. Been working for straight 13 hours all night and morning and afternoon. But that's a week's worth of testing!

Added a new chapter on custom adapter with Foundation Models; and that starts the Black Friday sale of 44% off! academy.rudrank.com/product/foun...

New release of MusadoraKit! You can now fetch the `inFavorites` property on Album, Song, Artist and Playlist. github.com/rryam/Musado...

What are you getting this Black Friday? I am excited to offer discounts on books, while taking advantage of the sale. My list has an annual subscription for PS Plus, so I can play Last of Us Part I & II

AiOS Dispatch 14: Raining Tokens. I cover Cursor and Composer 1, Claude Code & Web, Codex, and Polaris Alpha. Give it a read! aiosdispatch.com

I am glad that they postponed the run. It is so bad outside AQI > 500, I have not stepped out of my house for days (so privileged to have remote work with a laptop)

Back to Xcode! Only writing code that prints money for Japan trip. 🤖

I started another contract trial today. Amusing how I was not reached out for work over the past months and when I decided to just watch tv shows and play games, I got 2 in the same week. 😆

I wish I was not much invested into the AI world; it is overwhelming to catch up

Weekend will be spent preparing for a call on Monday. It is a small contract that I want to take because I am just playing games and watching shows at home and it is not a good feeling

Did a new release of MusanovaKit! github.com/rryam/Musano...

Did a new release of MusadoraKit! github.com/rryam/Musado...

I had documented every day during the WWDC 2019 scholarship; helpful for those targeting #SwiftStudentChallenge 2026 rudrank.com/exploring-co...

WWDC 2019 was my first trip outside my city, my first international trip. I literally had to make a passport for it and get a US visa in 2 months! Applyyy! It was all so worth it developer.apple.com/swift-studen...

Just finished The Studio. A fun show, especially the ending 😆 tv.apple.com/in/show/the-...

After looking at Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, I want a Switch 2. BOTW and TOTK and both will be much nicer too when docked 🥹

I had a long call with a newspaper publication about foundation models and on-device AI. It went well!

I put a lot of efforts into my open-source work, so consider sponsoring if you benefit from it 😊 All sponsorship funds will go into buying video games that makes me hyper-productive and hopefully a Switch 2. github.com/sponsors/rryam

Where should we begin? Well, it all started when I wanted a shiny golden MacBook 12"

I am really enjoying Spiderman 2. Binged it all Sunday and almost done with the story line. I think I will take it a bit slower and try to wrap it up this week and not today 🤣

I went out shopping today! 🤩