The Grid

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Past newsletters

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Local LLMs on iPhone, streaming in expo and automating financial tasks with embeddings.

036

On ambient companionship, good API design and music to end off the week.

035

True cost of software, the web has a spinner problem, and if Youtube actually had channels.

034

Insightful blog from Stripe engineering, building proficiency in LLMs quickly and an underrated public dataset of images.

033

A track, website, and art project to end off the week.

032

Postgres extension, apps as expressions of style, and embracing mistakes as a team.

031

Insights from our time at the AI Engineer World's Fair.

030

Crafting animations, jamming with work, and zooming out.

029

Browsing agents, rabbit holes, creating brand awareness, software as we know it & on choosing your reactions.

028

Google Streetview, LLMs labelling data & having empathy for your comms.

027

Team of agents outperform large LLMs, name your next project with confidence, and learn how to start a physical studio.

026

High performance animations, building an agent with long-term memory, and Toronto Tech Week.

025

LLAMA LLAMA LLAMA

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Coming Soon

023

Gen UI and Anthropic

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Coming soon

021

GPU marketplace, fixed software pricing, and embarking on side quests to pursue a major goal.

020

Coming soon

019

Finding PMF, validating your product pre-launch, and building a local AI-chat product.

018

AGI timelines, driving the world's fastest camera drone, and building aligned relationships.

017

Writing as a superpower.

016

Moats are overrated, setting up unique developer pipelines, and brainstorming ideas.

015

Open-source JSON mode template, streaming structured data, and finding the balance to saying yes to more things.

014

Coming soon

013

Open-weight LLMs, revenue per employee, and batched user interviews.

012

MVP breadth, thinking through problems in the moment, and demystifying web animations.

011

Scoping for input goals, truth-seeking as a trust exercise, and pretty TypeScript errors.

010

Business as offering help, startups from essays, and authenticity in uncertain times.

009

Every comment 1% better, audacity as sustainability, and engineered marketing.

008

This week's installment of The Grid, a roughly-weekly newsletter by Rubric Labs, contains an easter egg. Sorry about that.

007

GPU kernels, automated doom-scrolling, and math for deep learning.

006

Dynamic fonts, unblocking color palettes, and what even is interaction design?

005

Running LLMs on a MacBook, optimistic UI, and requests for startup.

004

Being model agnostic, naivety as an asset, and calculated moonshots.

003

Cache as component state, AI pins vs AirPods, and small tasks with outsized impact.

002

Vetting clients, open-source bounties, and optimizing for momentum.

001

AI agents, launch teasers, and money on the table. Our first installment of The Grid, a weekly newsletter by Rubric Labs.