Relay Notes is heading for the App Store

I've kept working on Relay Notes, my iPhone app.

It now has a real choice of transcription engine: Apple's built-in model, Whisper, or Parakeet. On top of that I've added a "cleanup" model that reads the transcribed text and applies the obvious fixes in grammar and continuity. I'm in field trials now, with one UI pass planned, and then on to the Apple App Store application process.

I've also made progress on Tilth, the coding harness I've been building as a research experiment, mostly by simplifying it. You can follow along at Tilth.

Lastly, like a lot of people, I'm watching the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 story closely. On June 12 a US government export-control order required Anthropic to suspend access for any foreign national, and the practical effect was that both models were disabled for all customers. Last week I was sketching an ROI plan for using Fable 5 on my own budget; this week that question is moot. The part I'm really following is the precedent it sets: Anthropic argues that if the same standard were applied across the industry, it could stall new deployments for every frontier provider. That is the fallout worth watching, and you can read Anthropic's note on it.