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Behold, episode 1 of:

TekTalk with Scottie & Toño


This idea has been simmering for quite some time... It came to a boil this year after several things Toño posted or sent to me made me go, "Oh, that would make a GREAT video!"

Still working out the kinks with audio/video and trying to find our "optimal flow"... Even though I've published 270 videos, I was quite nervous. Silly, but true.

Let us know what you think.
 
Scottie said:
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The podcast should also appear soon on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, etc.
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Nice, for that kind of format I prefer listening in podcast form while doing other things (and that's probably true for many people).

Two minor suggestions maybe for the future: some kind of USB mic (as opposed to lavalier) would probably improve sound quality, which is especially important when listening on a crappy phone speaker like I do. (Not that it's bad at the moment.)

Second, I noticed with podcasts that people are using very click-baity titles these days, and to be honest, they seem to work (at least on me!), even when the podcast is actually softspoken and nuanced. Seems people are just used to it at this point. If you want to go down that route, maybe bold statements instead of questions would work better, like "Agentic AI Will Change Everything (And Make It Stupid)" or whatever bombastic claim you can cook up :halo:
 
Enjoyed the talk! But wow, you guys are conservative 😘 I find it really enjoyable to run models on Apple Silicon locally and extend them via various MCP services like web search, memory, etc. With smaller models, limitations are very pronounced, but they are still powerful enough to extract data from written text, perform NER, or other NLP‑to‑structured‑data processing.

As for coding, I haven’t written anything by hand for two or three months. It’s not possible to have everything working in one shot, and providers often route to heavier quantized (=dumber) models during peak hours, but with an automated review process it’s manageable. For instance, I was able to port some legacy Postgres/Rails reporting code with stored procedures to a clean ClickHouse big‑data queries (on S3‑stored data) architecture. I wouldn't be able to tackle this without psychiatric meds and months of plumbing... :whistle: So in many cases, those tools make software development actually pleasant.

Are you planning to stick with the current one‑on‑one format, or will you be inviting guests in the future? I'd be really interested in seeing your cold‑headedness juxtaposed with someone more all‑in on this stuff (like Andrej Karpathy?).
 
Good job you guys! It was an interesting talk.
I'm with you in the scepticism about AI. I have used it for several things and I usually don't find it very impressive. It can save up some work in small tasks but I feel it usually needs A LOT of checking and tweaking.

What I was thinking, though, while listening, is that perhaps most people don't really want something super impressive. I mean the general public of course, not the more nerdy ones.

What I mean by this is that people I talk to seem to be quite impressed with Chat GPT and Grok. And they use it for all sorts of things already in a way that I find incredible. And then you have all this new 'content creators' who specialize in teaching people how to prompt, and I have spoken to a lot of people who actually join these 'courses' about 'how to create prompts for chat get' :scared: I mean, it's amazing. So, that's my thought, that perhaps as it is right now it's got people quite impressed already, and perhaps the big companies are counting on that too.

Anyway, regarding the show itself. I think the echo isn't too bothersome and the flow is nice, so keep it up! :thup:
 
Yas said:
What I was thinking, though, while listening, is that perhaps most people don't really want something super impressive. I mean the general public of course, not the more nerdy ones.
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Nop, not the regular folks, usually convenience needs to be there first. The people using OpenClaw are these early-adopter power users types, and people who definitely need a helping hand LOL
 
I confess I'm pretty anti-AI, but only because IMO it's simply not good enough. It is of course possible that my expectations are just too high, but...

I just used it again tonight for a simple issue (printing problem) and the solution it gave was to install an app on the Microsoft Store that doesn't exist. A simple scan of the manufacturer's web site shows there is no MS store app! I mean, c'mon!!

And as for "context files", well... imagine using a search engine where you have to tell it the results so that it can give you the results you want/need. That just doesn't make sense to me.

I demand nothing less than the ship's computer on Star Trek: The Next Generation!! :lol:
 
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