Joe Speiser ⚡️

@momoneymohit Ive used OR with openclaw, but its not something you can plug into Viktor (our current ai setup).

@jspeiser Try openrouter. Will route it to the appropriate model and uses a lot of open source weights

Ran a real-world test: Claude Sonnet 5 vs Opus 4.6 powering our AI employee at Hampton. Both cranked to high reasoning. Sonnet 5 looked great on paper. Faster, cheaper, smarter. Then our team started reporting errors on routine member lookups. Things Opus handles without blinking. Why we think it failed? Sonnet is built to be fast and efficient. But our AI employee runs workflows with 10+ tool calls, pulling from Airtable, HubSpot, and Stripe, then cross-referencing the results. That kind of careful, sequential reasoning is where Opus excels and Sonnet cuts corners. We switched back in under 24 hours. Lesson: the best AI model is whichever one your team trusts enough to stop checking. bummed. was hoping Sonnet 5 would be the perfect model for us (and our wallet).

alex making big waves in restaurant reservations.

@gangl_daniel Isn't there a tokenizer change that could account for a thirty percent difference in price between the two?

@jspeiser Massive quality diff to 4.8 at same price - I’d switch that asap

@danielcberk We talked about that off the record! 😉

I interviewed someone this week for Moneywise that loves to tip generously. Sometimes at a normal meal out with his wife he’ll tip the server $10,000. Insane.

@gangl_daniel That’s the default in Viktor not sure why either.

@jspeiser Why Opus 4.6 not 4.8?

@danielcberk Better. The high back chair removal was key.

Better or worse

@murmrvoice Thank you!

@jspeiser Great point! Will push an update to add control for the bar.

This is the most requested addition. We've started work on Windows support!

@danielcberk All keyboard apps on iOS require that annoying swipe switch. Hoping iOS fixes this with their own local ai dictation soon.

@jspeiser Keep me updated. Same guy reached out to me and I’ve coincidentally gotten very very annoyed by the app switch required with Wispr Flow

Been testing: wisprflow -> MURMR for voice dictation. runs fully local on iOS and Mac. No data leaving my machine. No dead zones killing my flow on my flights or my train commute and it's open source and free. If this continues to test well, we’ll migrate our entire team off of wisprflow.

@murmrvoice Need pc support too. Otherwise pretty solid so far.

@jspeiser Enjoy! Let us know what we can do to improve. For anyone else interested: murmrvoice.com

@kylecordes There are a bunch yes. I needed iOS and Mac support. Free. Local. Offline. Custom dictionary. And low latency. This one seems to hit all those nicely. Only downside so far is no pc support.

When I see these tools discussed, I i'd like to point out there are at least 50, I think, competitors in this space already. I heartily endorse moving from anything cloud-based to anything local though. The local models are plenty good enough and why send your data to the cloud unnecessarily?

@ValKatayev Murmr

@jspeiser What’s it called ?

Can we all collectively agree Apple needs to buy Whispr Flow or at least make it native? Siri dictation is horrible and using Whispr with the clumsy iPhone app setup is a joke.

@TheThomHart @sdhilip testing this vs wispr now. need offline support, will see how it goes.

@sdhilip There's also murmrvoice.com on iOS and Mac. Does TTS + STT, records meetings

I've dictated almost everything for 6 months with Wispr Flow. 44,414 words, 161 wpm, top 0.1% of users. Last week I tried FluidVoice. Open source, runs local on my Mac, corrects as I speak with no API key, and handles slang better than I expected. Cancelled my paid plan. If you're on a Mac, this one's for you: altic.dev/fluid @ALTIC_DEV

@danielcberk for real??

What if instead of babies kicking while they were in the womb they screamed? Anyway this is a pregnancy announcement.

@frydwia We just upped our monthly commitment to Viktor, lets go!

@frydwia headline def scared me for a second, solid bait and transparency. loving our Viktor setup, and not being locked into 1 model. keep on shipping!

@_May_Ham @danielcberk @joshsuggss ha josh and I were supposed to sync last night, but you know I would have love hanging with you too =)

@jspeiser @danielcberk @joshsuggss Mmmmkay Joe

Ran into Nathan May and Josh Suggs and they asked me to join the media mafia (I said no)