Under-appreciated leaderboard in my opinion – function calling (aka tool usage) is one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, plus it should be independent of how much "knowledge" is baked into the models
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Tracking upstream changes in open source library forks
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I use a similar trick for my asgi-gzip library, which I extracted from Starlette but need to keep track on changes they make to their implementation https://
simonwillison.net/2022/Apr/28/is
sue-on-changes/
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Claude Cannot Read Information from URLs Yet
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Claude still doesn't have the ability to read information from URLs you give it to- it's the same issue I wrote about here (Claude should at least show you a warning message though)
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Using AI Embeddings to Document CLI Tools
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The "Related" feature on my TILs (powered by OpenAI embeddings) pulled up this one from 2021 – apparently I'm in the habit of using TILs to write documentation for under-documented CLI tools
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Running Whisper-cpp on macOS via Homebrew and Hugging Face
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Thanks to @slhck I also now have a recipe for running CLI whisper-cpp on macOS via Homebrew and a model file downloaded from Hugging Face – detailed notes on that here (including converting mp3 to wav using ffmpeg):
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LLM Tools: Flawed Yet Valuable for Daily Use
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I think almost every tool involving LLMs is a "deeply flawed product", and yet I get enormous value out of them on a daily basis – just because something is flawed doesn't mean it can't be useful if you figure out how best to apply it I mean have you tried using Linux?
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CleanShot X and LICEcap: Essential Screenshot and GIF Tools
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I like CleanShot X for screenshots and LICEcap for animated GIFs
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Mastering Copilot: Hidden Tricks for Effective AI Assistance
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How much time have you spent trying to figure out how to put it to use? Copilot is weird in that it's actually quite hard to get it to work effectively – there are all sorts of undocumented tricks you have to figure out, like writing comments that say what you want to do next
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GPT-4 Accelerates Learning for Junior Developers
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Juniors have been given an extraordinary gift – if I had access to GPT-4 20 years ago I would have learned my craft SO much faster
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Self-Employment Job Security in the Age of AI
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I'm self-employed so my job security is pretty much rock solid!