Carl Peaslee
@CarlPeaslee
cofounder at @loopworkai, software engineer, writer
big miss not to call this Saunalito
Jumping into SF bay after sauna hits different. This place has a couple of saunas and is a fun group outing thisisfjord.com
I have this garage door opener app on my phone. And I can just tell it’s kind of a shit app. Slow. Inexplicably riddled with ads. Something is fucked with the auth. But I swear this garage door dev team is shipping shit on a daily basis. Everytime I go in there it’s different.
devilish design decision by my crossfit gym / meat market for hot fit people. jump ropes hang from two PROMINENTLY labelled hooks that you must queue up in front of: “SIX FOOT” (macho blue) ~ 5’8” (neon “mark of shame” pink)
Another interesting thing about “the model selector” — it causes a lot of medium feel-bad product moments. “Should I have used a better model?” “I used a good model, why didn’t it work?” “I don’t have ‘the feel’ for this model yet” “This service provider feels slow so I’m gonna…
Sourcegraph may have invented the model selector for chat-based coding assistants with Cody back in early 2023. That was controversial at the time ("why would I want to use this Claude thing instead of GPT-4?"), but end-user model choice made sense to us given the RAG…
if elon were to rename tesla today would he call it CarX or xCar?
does the venmo recurring charge feature just fire at a random time on the set day? is that an infrastructure load balancing type decision? or just a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ kind of feature?
wonder why doesn’t door dash show my favorite restaurants on my home screen? realistically that’s where i’m spending the most money
while we are talking soham… AMA about the time i found out someone on my team was also working full time for nvidia… and used a FAKE pronoun transition to cover it up he ultimately got fired from both companies and lost out on … millions of options and h1b sponsorship?
Has anyone figured out what Apple's on-device Foundation Model's context window is?
i will vote for any sf supervisor who promises to make it not 53 degrees and windy in june
openai: we will give our models dumb confusing names anthropic: (New) apple: they can’t make fun of your model if you never give it a name
Trying out the apple llm on the new macos. Pretty snappy. Doesn't want to tell a long beautiful story about Tim Apple.
wife suggesting trendy jewelry stores in sf to me: “ma-jewelry” and “jor-shawna (but with G’s)” — lol why do they all have completely nonsense non-phonetic names that could never be remembered or entered into google by a husband
coding something with apple's new Foundation Models API and none of the LLMs know about it so just having to rawdog the docs like an ancient barbarian. kind of thrilling.
introducing: the first AI support bot that calls you boss and pretends it’s a brooklyn bodega owner