Just shipped what I've been working on with Google! 🎉 Foundation models are overkill for most uscases; bad for users, the environment, and your bottom line. Use focused, efficient models that run locally! 🔗 web.dev/articles/rig... 🔗 web.dev/articles/ai-... TLDR? Prototype big. Ship small.

Back on my shit

I'm rigging up Raycast properly this Sunday. What's your favorite feature/customization?

My fave new girl band, ALT BLK ERA 🖤 #ALTBLKERA

I love it #r1

It's funny, but when I'm wearing my Product hat, my confidence feels unshakeable. I come off stage/out of podcasts like "nailed it, you're welcome." When I'm in the weeds engineering, I come out like "OH GAWD DID I RAMBLE ABOUT SOMETHING IN RESPONSE TO AN OFFHAND COMMENT AGAIN"

Back from the gym and enjoying something delightful I brought back from Portugal's copious comics scene

It was a bumpy flight, but I made it back to London! Many thanks to the organizers and attendees of #LisbonAI!

I am so excited to see this exhibit at the Lisbon Aquarium!

This could change the course of personal agent development. It also feels like a dumb move from Amazon. Shopify is leaning into the curve. Amazon could end up scrambling to catch up to AgentCommerce like Walmart did after eCommerce took off. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

My slides on sustainable AI with smaller models from #LisbonAI: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6k9zi... Please reach out if you are using SLMs in production!

Facts

Been playing around with Chrome's Prompt API. It allows you to utilize the browser's local LLM (Gemma Flash in Chrome) to analyze and construct texts. I wanted to show how to use it to make people be decent in the comments! www.loom.com/share/b162ed...

I am at #LisbonAI and they are playing NINE INCH NAILS (the ghosts album). HEAVEN

Sometimes, I talk with people in charge of venture funds, and I wonder who is trusting them with money. I don't mean "venture capital bad"—I mean "venture capital should be invested by people who understand how monopolies, debt, and MLMs work"

Use. Task. Specific. Models. #LisbonAI

I'm in Lisbon for #LisbonAI! Catch my talk on sustainable AI Tuesday—local and small models are the future!!

I'm in Lisbon and in need of protein snacks! What is good??

Is there an SLM Arena? LMArena's models are all too big for what I'm testing lol

Happy Day of the Dead! Hope you get some rest after Halloween 🎃

Happy Halloween from me, @lawyerfox.bsky.social and a stray @nikkitaftw.wtf ♥️🎃

Remember the ".1/1/10 seconds" guidelines from Nielsen's "Usability Engineering"? Well, researchers found that after 4 seconds of waiting for LLMs to reply in VR chat, user experience degrades, even with mitigations: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Having had enough of awkward and inefficient shared to-do apps, I have finally begun migrating my partner to Linear

Me: "I need more protein if I'm going to keep making these gains!" God:

AI Tinkerers London is really cool! But also really overwhelming! I better come back with a talk and some noise buffers 😅

Three color art

Sneaked out to the 404: media not found Hackathon for women founders in Shoreditch today. Love the events that the team at The Tech Bros puts together, and connecting with some of my fave folks like Louis from 11 Labs!

My next project is to build a server for my archival comics, poison the files against training, set up a payments system, and share them via an MCP UI comics gallery module. That or find out why the site is borked

Nice heft

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Almost forgot, one final talk this year for #LisbonAI

Man I'm going to feel left out while everyone is having such a good time at GitHub Universe. I had a ticket. I really wanted to go. But... I have one of the biggest (and happiest) workloads, and it's going to introduce a whole new wave of web Devs to building for the Agentic web. I can't stop

If you need some good news... (Thank you for voting, @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy)

For the weeknight set:

When it comes to crawlers and agents accessing your site, use robots.txt but carry a big stick: tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867...

Good morning, humans. You ready?

This is probably my first full Halloween season in London since I moved back (last year I spent half of it in Palo Alto), and it's off to a great start! Last night we saw The Man Who Laughs with LIVE foley in a church (with a crypt). I could help but start cheering for the dog

Be mid. Be lucky.

Mood. Found this in the bottom of a conf trunk from 8 years ago.

Honestly, awesome to see a $20k visual identification system repurposed from baked goods to cancer cells and more♥️ Gen AI is not the wine SC sells it as

Guess which one is the Labrador and which is the black cat in this relationship

Anyone else listening to the new Nine Inch Nails album *cough* Tron soundtrack? I always said NIN's instrumentals were tops. Reznor and Ross's art has aged like fine wine.

Coming soon!

I've been so into SLMs and MCP (servers and UI), I turned down a number of wonderful conferences this fall. (I'm only speaking at Lisbon AI.) There is something so wonderfully cozy about prototyping and researching. Time spent speaking is not spent doing, alas

"Every major model vendor has a stack that begins with training data and ends with distribution control [meaning] the agent is never truly autonomous. It’s a client process of a megafirm." Every scarcity a profit center. open.substack.com/pub/davefrie...

Was chatting with an engineer I once worked with about the unprofitability of AI and when investors will raise prices and by how much. "When you've laid off all your workers, and then to just below what it would cost to hire them back," was my verdict

Ok, who is this? Fess up. Where were you when Edge ditched EdgeHTML for Chromium?

Been reading the Web MCP spec as well as some other things coming out of Big Browsers. AI nerds, do you ever refer to things like Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini as "AI platforms?" Because I've been calling them Agents. Coding agent, personal agent: LLM + tools + loop + UI

Are you (or someone you know) interested in WebMCP? github.com/webmachinele...

Latest/last edition of this talk before I disappear to work on building this future. Come on, Team Open Web. Once more, with feeling!