Got a disappointing pelican from DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 at default reasoning mode - on the left - but then I bumped reasoning up to high (via OpenRouter) and got the much better one on the right
I got some really useful Claude prompting tips from @_catwu and @trq212 - it's time to stop overloading our prompts with examples and lists of things not to do, Fable works better without those
Claude Code's own system prompt recently shrunk by 80%!
I poked around in the just open sourced Grok Build CLI tool - 844,000 lines of Rust code! - and dug up a few interesting highlights, including a "self-contained terminal renderer for Mermaid diagrams" that renders them using Unicode box-art!
Microsoft's MIT licensed VibeVoice speech-to-text model (think Whisper with speaker diarization) is really good - my notes on running the 5.71GB 4bit MLX conversion on an M5 MacBook, using about 60GB of RAM at peak and transcribing 1hr of audio in ~9 mins
Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
I ported a Python library implementing a full HTML5 parser to JavaScript using GPT-5.2 and Codex CLI in 4.5 hours, and decorated for Christmas and watched Knives Out while I was doing it