Alireza Kenarsari

For so many people today is political. For me it isn’t. I’m clearly not Persian, but I grew up Jewish and with Reza Pahlavi as a close family friend during my formative years. His stories and situation helped shape me. I never thought this day would come, but I couldn’t be more proud that it did with the country that I call home and the one that saved my grandfather and father leading the charge. We are all lions today.

Look, I hate to come across as an alarmist but we have finally crossed the chasm and from my vantage point are experiencing a classic "slowly and then all at once" situation. Especially in Seattle. Treat this more as a wakeup call than anything else. Here are the facts. 1. In Seattle there are A LOT less tech jobs than there were even just a few years ago. geekwire.com/2026/tech-boom… 2. Your city, state, AND STARTUPS are NOT coming to the rescue. geekwire.com/2026/washingto… 3. LLMs have irreversibly changed the way that we do just about everything in tech. Even in the past month. If you aren't IN THE WEEDs on a daily basis you have no idea what you are even talking about. When 80% of LLM skeptics on LinkedIn have "Open to Work" with "Software Architect" or some similar inflated title on their bio it's more than just a passing "trend". I talk to a lot of people every week. And I mean A LOT. Over the past few weeks the gravity of financial realities has started to set in. Unless you have S-tier social skills, you aren't going to get that salary again with your current skillset. So no, you can't actually afford your mortgage. Oh, and you also probably needed to realize this 12 months ago because you've already irreversibly dipped into your savings utilizing hope as a strategy. Oh and to add insult to injury, prices of everything are going up at the same time: x.com/stevemur/statu… I do not have advice for you if you're in this spot, you're in deep shit and I'm fighting on too many fronts at this point. But if you aren't there yet, my advice is to reset your expectations. You are not mid or late-career, you are just getting started. If you can stomach that I have some REALLY good news for you. The future looks awesome and you're going to do something great.

Big thanks to @Picovoice for making this possible with their incredible voice AI technology. The accuracy is mind-blowing. If you think this is cool! Just wait to see what we are cooking up at @OpenCodeMission

The Wake Word app leverages Picovoice's on-device AI to ensure privacy by processing voice data locally, contrasting with cloud-reliant systems like Alexa that raise surveillance concerns. This app integrates Cursor IDE and Claude CLI, aligning with the trend of AI coding tools and terminal-based AI assistants transforming developer workflows. Built with Electron and React, Wake Word's open-source release taps into a growing DIY automation movement, evidenced by Home Assistant's 2024 community data showing 1.5 million users prioritizing local control over proprietary ecosystems.

🎤 Just shipped something incredible and Open source. Wake Word is a voice-activated productivity app that opens Cursor IDE and Claude CLI with just your voice. Built with Electron, React, and powered by Picovoice's on-device AI - so your voice never leaves your machine. ✨ Features: • Voice activation in under 2 seconds • Beautiful React UI with smooth animations • Professional Windows installer • System tray integration

.@aviel took everything we've learned running @founderscoop and @techstars #Seattle and reimagined what a #founder community outside the Bay Area should look like -- Seattle Foundations is the result, and it's awesome seattlefoundations.org

@garrytan @aviel Missing @AiPicovoice

Voice is actually working extremely well in every vertical. The tech has just broken through to a new point of extreme usefulness.

@yujian_tang @GregKamradt github.com/Picovoice/leop… I won't use the word `cheap`, go with `frugal`!

@GregKamradt @alirezakenar ?

my ideal transcription service: * high quality * supports labeled voiceprints to label speakers with real names * cheap-ish deepgram/assembly are cheap and good, but no voice prints pyannote has voice prints but no regular transcription does this exist?

Want to Run LLMs on the Edge? eejournal.com/article/want-t… picoLLM is an end-to-end local large language model (LLM) platform that enables enterprises to build AI assistants running on-devices, on-premises, and in private clouds without sacrificing accuracy.

Supporting both CPU and GPU acceleration on Windows, macOS and Linux, picoLLM Inference Engine can run LLMs on a wide range of devices, from resource-constrained edge devices to powerful workstations. Deploy Llama locally using Python across platforms. picovoice.ai/blog/how-to-ru…

Looking for a weekend project? Try picoLLM Inference on Android! 👀 📱Running local LLMs on mobile 𝗶̶𝘀̶ was challenging when you consider battery life, compute and memory requirements. Now, efficient LLM Inference on Android is just a few lines of code away: youtube.com/watch?v=XeUMku… #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #LocalLLMs #Android #AndroidDev

Local LLM Inference across 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲, 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗶, 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝘅, 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮 is now possible with picoLLM! Don't just take our word for it, see for yourself! picovoice.ai/picollm/ #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #SmallLanguageModels #AIAgents #DeepLearning

picoLLM Inference runs any LLM in the cloud, on-prem, and on-device, including a Raspberry Pi! Shrinking language models without sacrificing accuracy: 📊 reduces memory usage, ⚡speeds up inference, 🎯 makes LLM intelligence available for all! Check the video description to start building: youtube.com/watch?v=GEndT3… #RaspberryPi #VoiceAssistant #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #LocalLLM #VoiceAI

By me for @Hacksterio, "Creating cross-platform Small AI with PicoLLM." hackster.io/news/creating-… #tinyML #smallAI

Creating cross-platform Small AI with @AiPicovoice's picoLLM. hackster.io/news/creating-…

picoLLM is a cross-platform, on-device LLM inference engine: Large Language Models (LLMs) can run locally on mini PCs or single board computers like the Raspberry Pi 5 but with limited performance due to high memory usage and bandwidth requirements. Th… ift.tt/dFMB3U9

.@AiPicovoice picoLLM is an on-device, cross-platform #LLM inference engine optimized for lower-end hardware like the #raspberrypi that can also be used to create an offline voice assistant. #smartaudio cnx-software.com/2024/05/29/pic…

@catherinebuk Do you think they made it work for the general case?

@Suhail twitter.com/AiPicovoice/st…

It's very clear that latency in voice-to-answer type interfaces is a worthwhile problem to solve. How fortunate to so clearly see the frustration with new AI hardware.

Help #LLMs talk 10x faster ⚡🚀 @picovoice Orca Streaming Text-to-Speech concurrently synthesizes speech as the LLM generates its response, reducing end-to-end latency to sub-second. Blog: picovoice.ai/blog/orca-true… Doc: picovoice.ai/docs/orca/ GitHub: github.com/Picovoice/orca/