Nick Arner
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Nick Arner
@nickarner
Engineer in Residence @SHV Investing early in founders making better computers Previously: various startups and open source projects










Know the difference between using a computer and being used by a computer.

our latest speech model CODA is now live and in public beta. we believe this is the last text-to-speech model you'll ever need to build with. why? because it truly crushes every competitive model on both perceptual and brass tacks metrics like latency and throughput. and we are super proud that every day people on the street agree!!


Made a thing to search SF symbols / emojis on your computer by drawing



We’ve also been tightening Codex performance across the app, especially for large repos and active coding sessions. • ~75% less re-rendering when switching threads • Some streaming paths dropped to 0 unnecessary re-renders • Expensive Git operations in large repos reduced by ~10-50x, depending on the operation • Less UI churn across streaming responses, thread switching, and sidebar interactions • Faster time to usefulness around startup and first interaction Less background churn. More responsive coding.




