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.