Some recent applications of AI
Trevor McKendrick asked for favorite recent applications of AI, and Nate Meyvis shared his own, including a system that extracts facts from a corpus, generates embeddings, and clusters them to find fr…
Trevor McKendrick asked for favorite recent applications of AI, and Nate Meyvis shared his own, including a system that extracts facts from a corpus, generates embeddings, and clusters them to find fr…
Nate Meyvis reports combining spaced repetition, APIs, and generative AI in recent experiments, using an LLM (gpt-5.6-sol low) for handwriting recognition and grading ambiguous answers. Meyvis advocat…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, a new frontier model that is significantly more powerful than models from just a month ago, according to a blog post by Nate Meyvis. The post highlights that fast mod…
Nate Meyvis argues that fallback mechanisms in generative AI tools are overrated, as reliable primary paths are more achievable than assumed and crashing or alarming is often preferable to falling bac…
Software engineer Nate Meyvis argues against the view that large language models make code a mere 'materialized view' of ideas, citing Hyrum's Law, platform differences, and performance concerns. He e…