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Weekly Web – 01/12/2025

NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips

I don’t know if I’ll personally try to buy one of these or not, but I did sign up for the email list to see when it’s available. This sounds like a great idea for anyone wanting to do experiments locally with larger AI models. I’m running some larger models on a 96GB of RAM server, but it’s all on the CPU so it’s super slow. This Digits device seems relatively cost effective (for what it is). It sounds like a 5090 might be more powerful, but way less RAM, so this is a good balance of GPU power with unified RAM. Yes, you can get an Apple machine that can match the unified RAM, but at a higher cost AND I’ll be very, very shocked if this machine’s performance doesn’t blow Apple Silicon out of the water for these AI model specific tasks (it may be worse in every other way, but not that one).

34 Life Lessons from 34 Years The Curiosity Chronicle
By Sahil Bloom

Lots of good advice in this one. I always enjoy seeing what general life lessons learned posts. I can certainly relate to quite a few of them, but I always find a few things that make a lot of sense, but I’ve never really thought about before.

Agents
By Simon Willison

This is Simon’s commentary on another article. You should read the original article too. I’m just getting started understanding agents. I certainly can’t process everything in the longer article, but I’m going to come back to this once I understand some basics better.

I Quit! The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
By Charles Smith

I think this is an interesting take on why we see so much burnout in the tech industry (I’m sure it’s everywhere, but I’m most familiar with tech). I think there are quite a few good points in here about what’s happening and how it’s not just “overwork” that causes all of this – it’s larger than that.

Mastering Long Codebases with Cursor, Gemini, and Claude A Practical Guide
By wheattoast11

I haven’t tried this yet, but I do a good bit of work with Cursor, so I’m really interested in giving this a try for some larger codebases I work with. It sounds like a great idea and I can see how it would help. I’m hopefully going to get a chance to try this out in the next couple of weeks.

Okay, Gemini 2.0 might actually be better than ChatGPT Pro. (Twitter Thread)
By Leo Grundstrom

This is a Twitter thread, but I thought it was interesting enough to include here. It’s a handful of use cases where Gemini 2.0 beats ChatGPT Pro even though Gemini is free (at least free enough for smaller experiments). I don’t work with Gemini much, but I have wired it into my home Open WebUI server so I’m going to give some of these a spin.

Weekly Web – 01/05/2025

Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher

By Zohaib Rauf

I’ve had a similar experience. I’m not an engineering manager, but I don’t get to write as much code as I’d like at home or at work. I’ve had several side projects (or even just ideas to explore) that I’ve put off forever because I didn’t have enough time to sit down and get through a lot of the boilerplate needed to even start.

Using Cursor, I’ve been able to get a couple of prototype apps built for myself. What would have taken at least 2+ weeks of effort is now just a few hours. I agree with Zohaib that you should start with a spec and work in small iterations. I have not has as good an experience letting Cursor bootstrap the project. I end up setting up the skeleton of the project myself and letting it take over from there. That may be unique to my projects though – one was Swift using Xcode and another .NET 8.

Updating My Obsidian Workflow: Unbelievable Power

By Christopher Lawley

I’m doubling down on my Obsidian use this year, specifically seeing how it can help at work. I’ve used it at home for many years, but I’ve mostly used it as a Markdown file organizer & search, nothing more.

I’m not using Christopher’s Launchpad concept, but I did figure out a super helpful template for my Daily Notes inspired by what he does. I’ll post about that in the future. Obsidian’s new Web Clipper tool was new to me as well. I’m trying that out as well to see how that integrates into my workflow. I can see that replacing Instapaper for me in a lot of cases as well as making it easier to save off useful webpages as resources for later.

My approach to running a link blog

By Simon Willison

Simon’s post is what inspired me to try collecting the links I’ve found useful this week and posting them here. I follow several people that post link blogs (or at least a link blog type post occasionally) and usually find them pretty helpful, so I thought I’d give it a try.