February 2025

There were 2 posts published in February 2025 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly Web – 02/16/2025

NOTE: It’s been hectic time the last couple of weeks, so I’m not able to keep up with too much of the news at the moment. Today will be another light week.

Introducing Perplexity Deep Research

I know this was available with ChatGPT Pro and with Gemini, but I’ve been using Perplexity for quite a while, so I’m looking forward to trying this out inside of Perplexity. It feels like this should be be a really good use case for LLMs.

Run LLMs on macOS using llm-mlx and Apple’s MLX framework
By Simon Willison

I still run most of my LLM (or any AI model) tests on an M1 MacBook Pro. I need to look into using MLX more. It sounds like inference is getting really good using that framework. I know CUDA on Nvidia cards will still outperform it in most, if not all, cases, but I’d like to see how good MLX works on my machine. I also keep meaning to try out Simon’s LLM cli. I usually use Open WebUI and Ollama.

WASM will replace containers
By Creston

I thought this was an interesting idea. I don’t know that I agree with this. I can see it being true in some contexts, but it’s not a universal replacement. There are certainly valid use cases, but I don’t think Docker and the like are in any danger anytime soon. There is some good discussion on Hacker News about this article here.

Weekly Web – 02/02/2025

NOTE: This was another light week where I didn’t get to read up on as many posts as I wanted so not too many links today.

Qwen 2.5 VL!
By Simon Willison

I haven’t played with this model yet, but looking forward to another multimodal model I can run locally on my home server.

Aider

This is something I’m adding to my toolkit to try out in the near future. I’ve seen people mention how great it is online, but I haven’t actually tried it for myself since I have access to other cloud hosted AI tooling. I’m interested to see how this works with my locally hosted models though and to see how this works for me given I’m usually using an IDE for dev work.

Cursor Project Rules (via X)
By Michael Feldstein

Interesting reading through some of these project rules to help Cursor be more helpful without having to put a lot of content directly in the prompt. This seems more flexible than shoving everything into the .cursorrules file while still letting Cursor see whatever context it might need.

VGHF Digital Archive

This isn’t AI or even work related, but if you’re around my same age and were into video games growing up, you might find this interesting. It’s scans of all kinds of popular gaming magazines from the 90s/2000s. I used to *love* reading so many of these. It’s awesome to see them available on the web.