Zalmay Karimi

introducing CANVAY, an experiment on the future of the IDE. 🧵

@scottastevenson the APM arc is my favourite @scottastevenson side-quest that's been going on for a year+ . love it!

Most people find the idea of APM (actions per minute) very dumb when they first hear about it. Isn’t it just incentivizing you to spam clicks? But the magic is that the rhythm and pressure to keep the number up trains your brain to decide and act on a faster clockspeed.

@preshdkumar add qwen 3 coder and this is my setup exactly. no loyalty on llms. just switching between flows. codex >>> right now.

besties

@signulll is doing a dope job showing what an X first launch should look like.

@robjama absolutely devastating.

another innocent child slaughtered by Israel 💔

well said. @535TORONTO defined what toronto tech is to a lot of us through the community it built

disappointing when you expect excellent/mastery/speed and get signals of the opposite right away.

It took 3 years + @FarzaTV for a new AI interface past chat.

Not long ago most teams wouldn't trust AI-generated code in production (and doing so was still controversial). It's clear now that in the very near future, it will literally be a liability and security risk to trust anything OTHER than AI-generated code.

@measure_plan 10K MRR within 24 hrs

@zalmaytech sounds very fun, maybe i should make a game out of this where you can upload pictures of things you want to destroy stress relief simulator ??

html-in-canvas API is shattering my expectations

link to model card: www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10…

Fascinating that for Mythos and other models, Anthropic tracks AI emotional wellbeing, spiritual behaviour and self image… whaaat

@FarzaTV i've been waiting for this release since you posted it on your IG story. I can see ppl feeling connection to their Clicky. so dope

I built this thing called Clicky. It's an AI teacher that lives as a buddy next to your cursor. It can see your screen, talk to you, and even point at stuff, kinda like having a real teacher next to you. I've been using it the past few days to learn Davinci Resolve, 10/10.

@EstebanSuarez @threejs @xai this is dope. Playing on chess.com or lichess doesn’t tend to translate well to real life playing. This seems close

Air Chess: Play chess against Grok 4.20 Beta using hand gestures. Pinch to grab, drag to move, release to place. Powered by AI Gateway + Mediapie + @threejs + @xai Grok 4.20 Try it: v0-airchess.vercel.app Open in v0: v0.app/templates/air-…

@karpathy Toronto’s got @build_toronto and @ahmednadar

Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments. Historically, it is the governments that act to make society legible (e.g. "Seeing like a state" is the common reference), but with AI, society can dramatically improve its ability to do this in reverse. Government accountability has not been constrained by access (the various branches of government publish an enormous amount of data), it has been constrained by intelligence - the ability to process a lot of raw data, combine it with domain expertise and derive insights. As an example, the 4000-page omnibus bill is "transparent" in principle and in a legal sense, but certainly not in a practical sense for most people. There's a lot more like it: laws, spending bills, federal budgets, freedom of information act responses, lobbying disclosures... Only a few highly trained professionals (investigative journalists) could historically process this information. This bottleneck might dissolve - not only are the professionals further empowered, but a lot more people can participate. Some examples to be precise: Detailed accounting of spending and budgets, diff tracking of legislation, individual voting trends w.r.t. stated positions or speeches, lobbying and influence (e.g. graph of lobbyist -> firm -> client -> legislator -> committee -> vote -> regulation), procurement and contracting, regulatory capture warning lights, judicial and legal patterns, campaign finance... Local governments might be even more interesting because the governed population is smaller so there is less national coverage: city council meetings, decisions around zoning, policing, schools, utilities... Certainly, the same tools can easily cut the other way and it's worth being very mindful of that, but I lean optimistic overall that added participation, transparency and accountability will improve democratic, free societies. (the quoted tweet is half-ish related, but inspired me to post some recent thoughts)

imagine ur steve jobs, and you are setting up the github CLI on your MacBook™. you copy the 8-digit code from your terminal into the browser. then it asks for your 2fa code, so you pick up your iPhone™ and touch the authy icon, but a big modal pops up saying "pasting from

@measure_plan @measure_plan about to start the first mediapipe fitness startup. amazing

i made donkey kong but you play with pushups and planks and it's quite inconvenient made with javascript, canvas, roboflow RF-DETR (for banana detection), and mediapipe body pose tracking lmk if you want to play a few fitness games like this and i'll try to get these online

@preshdkumar @JoinTempo that form factor is so clean

update: 3d-printed an enclosure and realtime air quality readings are working next version will likely switch to an e-ink for longer battery purpose: exploring how your environment affects your health when connected to Tempo

factorio is essentially real life now

@_chenglou github: github.com/zkarimi22/pret… live demo: pretext.zkarimi.com

can we use pretext by @_chenglou to make dynamic video masks? YEP! w/ sampling each frame, detecting light/dark regions, then reflowing text into those shapes in realtime we get this cool realtime effect. and ofc i did it with The Matrix first. Demo + Github below : )