Chen Cheng

Android control with DGX Spark & Qwen3.5-27B with a simple web UI - Sped up about 4x.

Big moment for text-to-speech. Qwen open-sourced a TTS model that lets you clone voices, design new ones & control speech using natural language. You can ask it "speak in a cheerful tone with slight nervousness," and it actually does that. No complex audio engineering needed!

Qwen 3.5 35B is now available on Venice. Fast, efficient, and multilingual. 262K context window, multimodal input, and strong coding and agent performance — all fully private on Venice.

this is the worst local AI will ever be. tomorrow it gets faster. next month the models get smarter. next year your GPU runs what a data center runs today. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on a single 3090. told it to visualize its own expert routing. 256 experts, 8 active per token, rendered in 3D on the same GPU running inference. no API key. no subscription. no permission needed. closed AI isn't losing ground. it's losing the argument.

RIP Monthly Fees. Really! Awesome combo Qwen3.5-35B + openclaw. Run it once, use it all day: $0 per prompt You don’t need huge/expensive models for your daily tasks: - Email +writing - Summaries - Non-stop coding - Agentic automation - Screenshots/images - Multilingual - No limits (except speed and electricity bill) Yeah, not super fast, but works well on 16GB VRAM + 64GB RAM.

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now. It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.