Renyi Khor

Stop paying the OpenAI tax. The best AI devtools are actually open-source, free to use, and give you full control over your data and privacy. While proprietary AI dominated early headlines, the true revolution is happening in open source - where a flourishing ecosystem of smarter models and easy to use developer tools is making advanced AI accessible to everyone. After speaking with hundreds of developers, my @TimescaleDB colleague @cevianNY and I have curated the 'Easy Mode' Open Source AI stack - the most developer-friendly tools that work seamlessly together to help you build AI apps: LLMs: Open source models like Llama 3 and Qwen 2.5 are matching Claude and GPT’s performance on many benchmarks come with more data privacy guarantees. Embeddings: Modern embedding models like JinaAI, BAAI, and Nomic power help devs power accurate search and RAG without paying per token or dependence on third party APIs. Model access and deployment: @ollama enables developers to access and deploy dozens of state of the art open-source models with just one command – no team of PhDs required. Data and retrieval: PostgreSQL – The world's most trusted database now handles AI workloads better than specialized vector DBs, thanks to extensions like pgvector and pgai. Backend: FastAPI – The fastest way to build production-ready AI backends that actually scale. Frontend: NextJS – Build beautiful AI UIs with the framework that handles streaming, caching, and real-time updates out of the box. How’s your experience been with these tools? What did I miss?

The first computer art tools were pixel editors, the apex of which was Deluxe Paint for the Amiga. Then Photoshop came in and changed the paradigm to image editing: old schoolers laughed at it because its pixel tools were so weak, but there was magic in changing the conceptual focus to the image and often editing it at a much higher resolution than the display. I’ve come to recognize generative AI art as the next paradigm change, away from drawing the image, towards specifying a scene through a combination of prompts, infills, and hand edits - whatever gets to the best result fastest. Fine Photoshop artists lament it (and shady IP practices warrant their respective criticisms) but ultimately it’s a new tool with a new paradigm that will likely become the predominant one in the future. And though the current tools are all about images, they’re rapidly evolving into video and 3D scenes, the ultimate version of which may be full 3D scene and animated shot synthesis and tweaking at professional levels of quality. For those born after the birth of the personal computer and the internet, it’ll be one’s first contact with a complete technological upheaval. The rapid burst of progress over the past 18 months in chat and art may be a bit misleading though, as they were preceded by 3 decades of directly applicable foundational research. Some areas of future AI application are lacking in these foundations, so we can expect progress to come in fits and starts. But the exponential upward trend is unmistakable.

Python is removing the GIL. The GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) prevents you from running multi-threaded code. That makes ML code, in particular, really hard to write in pure Python. Here's what it takes to remove the GIL:

Wow. @Meta commits to dedicate three engineer-years to implement the removal of the GIL from #Python and fix upcoming compatibility and performance issues with it. All this dependent on whether the Steering Council accepts PEP 703. discuss.python.org/t/a-fast-free-…

It’s a trap

True story

Wasn’t Twitter supposed to die by now or something … ?

I never imagined @FastAPI would be used so much, by so many people, products, and companies 🤩

The bots are angry at being counted 🤣

.@VitalikButerin likes us too, having named "#BitTorrent" as a long-lasting use case for decentralized applications outside of #Bitcoin.

First Elon Musk pumps Dogecoin, then he calls it a hustle. Then it corrects! Most interesting to see that Bloomberg refers to @coingecko and not @CoinMarketCap for data! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

SpaceX launching satellite Doge-1 to the moon next year – Mission paid for in Doge – 1st crypto in space – 1st meme in space To the mooooonnn!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=s3NWyh…

Yeay dah boleh kutip duit raya di Twitterjaya.

The Earth is not flat, it’s a hollow globe & Donkey King lives there!

To be clear, I do support vaccines in general & covid vaccines specifically. The science is unequivocal. In very rare cases, there is an allergic reaction, but this is easily addressed with an EpiPen.

The ideal cloud: AWS for reliability GCP for developer experience Azure for marketing and training The cloud from hell: Azure for reliability Oracle for developer experience IBM for marketing

If you're thinking about joining YC to work on some form of a dev tool or infra, consider coming somewhere like Sentry instead. You'll still able to achieve product ownership, it's less risk, and you're likely to learn a lot more. You don't gotta play VC games to be successful.

The people have spoken …

Ð is for Ðogecoin! Instructional video. m.youtube.com/watch?v=000al7…