Alexis Gallagher

Johno and I streamed a reading and discussion of Maiya et al.'

I streamed a couple hours of my robot development workflow, testing Sparky's new "portrait recognition" feature and FastQwenTTS voices, and showing how Sparky helps with building Sparky.

Waymos are supposed to be so smart they can keep you safe but so dumb they can't hear you.

Waymos are supposed to be so smart they can keep you safe but so dumb they can't hear you.

Does prompting (aka, agentic development) need the same skills as manual software development?

Codex has its own idiolect which is like, but not exactly like, how engineers actually talk.

People don't reject me enough.

OpenClaw allows you to switch models in the middle of a session.

Short discussion of "organic voice enrollment" in Sparky -- how he learns names and voices without ceremony, but by conforming to polite social norms.

Sparky powered by talkie-1930-13b-it, a 13B model trained only on pre-1930 text.

Chatting with an AI, I learned about the medical concept of differential diagnosis.

March was busy.

Lately I've been using Pi for all my agentic workflows outside of Claude.

Sparky is genuinely helpful for many kinds of work, including coding and writing.

Why Sparky wiggles his antennas when he's thinking, and why I chose a slow smart model over a fast limited one.

How I designed Sparky to initiate natural conversations about his own independent, changing interests, using insights from my background in improv comedy.

I made the robot buddy I always wanted.

It's easy to think OpenClaw is a joke because of the meetup mania — thousands of folks descending on Frontier Tower in San Francisco, wearing Mac Minis in baby slings and munching on lobster rolls.

Behold ClawPod!

A little TIL notebook on chaotic bifurfcations in the logistic map.

AI chat regarding Peter Wessel Zapffe's The Last Messiah, Herzog's penuin, modern philosophical pessimism, and whether it is ever much more than a dramatic gesture.

2025 was the year of vibecoding and AI agents.

This is walkthrough and video showing how to use emacs within SolveIt.

It may not be obvious when a tool makes us dumber

This is walkthrough on implementing styled components in FastHTML, within SolveIt.

On whether modern LLMs in their vast data centers are as useless as Apollo 11.

Two weeks ago I couldn't sleep so I was browsing twitter (bad habit).

fastmigrate is a library and tool for database migrations, where migrations are nothing but a set of well-named scripts.

I want to experiment more with local models to understand their limits, so I want them to be easy to install and run.

Introducing ModernBERT, a family of state-of-the-art encoder-only models representing improvements over older generation encoders across the board, with 8192 sequence length, better downstream performance and much faster processing.

Nate Cooper’s ShellSage is one of the coolest pieces of tech to come out of AnswerAI recently.

Today I learned that, while there is a rich and subtle syntax for Python dependency specifications, it's wiser to ignore it.

In CUDA Mode 2024 hackathon, Nate Cook and I stumbled into vibecoding before it got that name.

What do transformer-based AI models actually learn?