trevyn/brace

orthodonics for the mind

brace

orthodontics for the mind

https://twitch.tv/trevden

🦀 Rust Live: Self-Improving AI 🦀

What is this?

Background: gpt-4o-mini is insane. It has a huge 128k-token context window, gives decent responses, and is nearly free.

Projecting into the future, expect LLMs to get strongly better on all three of these axes. There is an opportunity to design significantly new software development and intelligence workflows — not just simple evolutions. This project is an effort to do that.

Current status: ChatGPT-like interface as a Rust desktop app, growing into a more comprehensive tool and workflow.

Principles

• AI is Fundamental: AI is eating the world even more than its most enthusiastic promoters realize. Overuse AI.
• LLM Progression: Expect continuous and dramatic advancements in LLM capabilities. Skate to where the puck is going to be.
• Open Source Everything: Open source isn't just about free, it's about authentic broadcasting, community-building, and revolution. It is a form of praxis.

Strategies

• Self-Improving Loop: Develop a tool designed to enhance its own capabilities, analogous to "turning attention back on itself".
• Chat-Interface: Create "simulation of collaboration", hacking human neurology to motivate action.
• User-Centric Tool: Focus on personal utility, with enhancements based on genuine needs and desires derived from immediate experiences. This is also based on the ephemeral felt-sense.
• Livestream Process: Communicate the journey to connect with others and foster collaboration.
• Aim High: Focus on the deep insight.

Tactics:

• Technology Stack: Use Rust, egui, and Turbosql to provide a compelling playground.
• Desktop-Only: Mobile and web are a red herring.
• To-Do List: Good ideas, seeded by actual desires of using the process.
• Design for Simplicity: Make it easy to iterate.
• Whole-File Code Suggestions: To bootstrap activation energy.

Good Ideas To-Do List:

• Dynamic update of README.md
• say something about aider?
• add "coworking" twitch tag?
• "using a game to see how far it can get, gpt writing shaders, music side"