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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crafting animations, jamming with work, and zooming out.

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

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

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

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

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Gen UI and Anthropic

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

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

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

Writing as a superpower.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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