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[UPDATED] Claude Code

Anthropic «Claude Code» is another AI-agent for AI-assisted coding (or “vibe-coding”). This competes with OpenAI Codex CLI in that it has a text-oriented user interface, but also integrates somewhat with Visual Studio Code: run it in the Terminal, and the changes it proposes are shown in the code pane as side-by-side diffs. Installing The offic... Read more

[UPDATED] Cutting Thinking with Reasoning Models

GPT-4.5 was discontinued on the OpenAI API earlier this week (but continues to be available through paid ChatGPT plans). This leaves a gap for an LLM that offers sufficiently current world knowledge baked-in that also covers niches. I briefly tried Kimi-K2, a newly released Chinese model with 1 Trillion parameters, and the results I got were dec... Read more

[UPDATED] Voice AI Latency

At a recent joint colloquium of the Bitkom working groups Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse and Virtual & Augmented Reality, a recurring pattern presented was speech transcription using either OpenAI Whisper or Nvidia Parakeet: e.g. so the user could talk to avatars that elaborate about different aspects of a Digital Twin (factory floor, in... Read more

Starter Kit for Learning ChatGPT Sans Snake-Oil

The generative-AI gold rush has bred two things in equal measure: astonishing progress and an ocean of low-grade advice. New capabilities ship weekly; yesterday’s “best practice” can be today’s foot-gun. Below is a bookmark list that will serve as a stable launchpad. 1. Begin with primary sources OpenAI’s own material is concise, current, and l... Read more

[UPDATED] OpenAI-based dictation on macOS

In search for a dictation app for macOS that surpases the aged integrated voice dictation by Apple, I came across SpeechCraft. My requirements were: - use OpenAI models, preferably - particularly the new GPT-4o based transcribe models - any target app support - OpenSource, preferably SpeechCraft checks these boxes and suppor... Read more