A few concepts for LLM chat UIs
To write this post, I was going to take myself through some of the history of different chat interfaces. This is not that post. I was too impatient and decided to go in without any appreciation for prior art (beyond what I'm already aware of), because it seemed more fun at the time.
You need to use models to build software to really understand their limits
I'm on a flight and wanted to write code to work on an idea. After a few moments of shifting mental gears, I popped open Zed, which allows me to code with a local LLM using ollama. My default impulse when writing code is to prompt a model. At first, I felt somewhat negative about this but with...
This post is an edit and repost of my rant from Bluesky
Goose is a CLI language model-based agent. Goose exposes a chat interface and uses tool calling (mostly to invoke shell commands) to accomplish the objective prompted by the user. These tasks can include everything from writing code to running tests to converting a folder full of mov files to...
I had an interesting realization today while doing a demo building a web app with Cursor. I was debugging an issue with an MCP server, trying to connect it to Cursor's MCP integration. The code I was using was buggy, and I'd never tried this before (attempting it live was probably a fool's errand...
Using Claude Citations to annotate the sources for document Q&A
The following is an implementation of document Q&A with citations using Anthropic's press release for Claude Citations, a feature meant to reduce LLM hallucinations and provide clarity for which part of the source text the model is using to produce answers to questions. The content below the next...
Zooming in and out of a document to view levels of detail, like a map for content
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Visualizing and navigating branched conversations with LLMs and embeddings
I wrote about Conversation Branching on my main blog and I've been prototyping an LLM chat app called Delta that has first-class conversation branching. LLM conversations typically follow a linear path, making it unintuitive to explore alternative directions or recover from miscommunications. This...
Writing React/Tailwind with LLMs is effortless
If you've experimented with Claude Artifacts or v0.dev, maybe you've been delighted (as I have) that the language model can conjure a UI for an idea you describe. Most of my experience building software, especially professionally, comes from working on the "backend". Building frontend (read: user...
This year included a lot of writing and learning new things.