Because if you don't offer backups your customers will chose someone else who does
@simonw
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Running Coding Agents Safely: Sandbox Execution Without Skip Permissions
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I can't imagine any way of running a coding agent for 8 hours without skip perms – the trick is to run it in a sandbox where mistakes don't matter
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Talkie AI tool created by Status Effects and collaborators
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talkie was created by @status_effects and @DavidDuvenaud and @AlecRad
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AI Image Generation Limitations and Era-Appropriate Responses
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It didn't quite manage to draw me a pelican riding a bicycle, but I still appreciated its era-appropriate response
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Talkie: New Vintage Language Model Trained on Historical Pre-1931 English
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Some notes on talkie, a new "vintage language model" from a team including Alec Radford (yes, that Alec Radford) "trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text"
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Comparing Parakeet MacWhisper MLX Audio VibeVoice Tools
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I've been using Parakeet via MacWhisper, haven't run a direct comparison with MLX audio and VibeVoice
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MLX Audio STT Tool Command Line Interface
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Good catch, that works fine too: uv run –with mlx-audio mlx_audio.stt.generate –help
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MLX one-liner downloads runs VibeVoice ASR model locally
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Here's a uv one-liner that downloads and runs the MLX model against a local mp3 file uv run –with mlx-audio python -m mlx_audio.stt.generate
–model mlx-community/VibeVoice-ASR-4bit
–audio lenny.mp3 –output-path lenny
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VibeVoice: MIT-Licensed Speech-to-Text with Diarization
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Microsoft's MIT licensed VibeVoice speech-to-text model (think Whisper with speaker diarization) is really good – my notes on running the 5.71GB 4bit MLX conversion on an M5 MacBook, using about 60GB of RAM at peak and transcribing 1hr of audio in ~9 mins
