Tom Elliot

@tomelliot.net

Bootstrapping towards freedom of finances, location and time. fluidseo.app (business)

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.

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.

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."

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

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

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

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.

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)

"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

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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.