Reading up on Granola

Default recording of workplace conversations is inevitable as AI turns voice data into a searchable system of record, creating a competitive wedge between AI-native companies and incumbents.

After a year of daily use, OpenAI Codex has become a reliably indispensable tool for production development, handling 85-90% of well-scoped maintenance tasks.

Open-weight LLMs now uniformly use Mixture-of-Experts transformers, with key differences in attention mechanisms, expert count, post-training via RL, and permissible licenses.

Amical is a local-first, MIT-licensed dictation app that uses Whisper and open-source LLMs for privacy-preserving, context-aware speech-to-text on Mac and Windows.

Computing advances in fractals of concentration and diffusion; AI inference is now diffusing to edge devices, but cloud models remain essential for peak capability.