Journal

Short notes from the workbench: project updates, things I learned, and links worth a comment. Lower stakes than the newsletter, more frequent.

June 26, 2026
Two DeepSeek models are building me a markdown editor for pocket change
A worker model, an evaluator model, and a macOS markdown editor taking shape for about forty cents.
tilthmodelsagentsai-assisted-dev
June 21, 2026
The four-hour course is delivered, demo fails and all
A delivered course (demo fails and all), a clean rename out of lsp4agents, and a meetup demo to plan.
ai-assisted-devagentstoolingteaching
June 17, 2026
Measuring transcription quality is harder than comparing strings
Exact string match punishes the very thing a good transcription model does: clean up what was actually said.
iosmodelstilthlearning-in-public
June 15, 2026
Relay Notes is heading for the App Store
A choice of transcription engines, a cleanup pass, and Relay Notes is into field trials.
iosai-assisted-devtilthmodels
June 10, 2026
A model too good to just kick the tires with
Claude Fable 5 is impressive enough that I can no longer afford to just kick the tires.
ai-assisted-devmodelsioslearning-in-public
June 9, 2026
Describe the what, let the agent navigate the how
The thing that always blocked me from building for iPhone was never the idea, it was the how.
agentsai-assisted-deviostooling
June 7, 2026
Autonomous agents need different machinery than the ones you watch
Most coding agents assume someone is watching. The interesting problems start when no one is.
agentstilthai-assisted-dev
June 3, 2026
Give the agent the tools you already use
We hand agents a text editor and act surprised when they reason about code like it's text.
agentstoolingrustlearning-in-public