TIL

Things I've learned, found, and built, in no particular order.

2026
Mar 27 [ai] [tools] Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Low-latency voice AI with native audio output
Mar 26 [ai] [asana] [mcp] Asana's official Claude MCP connector can't create tasks in Claude Code CLI because its tools require interactive UI
Mar 26 [ai] Cohere Transcribe beats Whisper Large v3 on the HuggingFace ASR leaderboard with a 2B open-source model
Mar 26 [ai] Tencent's Covo-Audio is a 7B end-to-end audio model with full-duplex conversation via THINK, SHIFT, and BREAK tokens
Mar 25 [ai] Google's TurboQuant compresses LLM KV caches 6x with zero accuracy loss and near-zero indexing time
Mar 24 [ai] TinyLoRA fine-tunes a 7B model to 91.8% GSM8K accuracy with only 13 parameters using RL
Mar 21 [ai] [tools] GitAgent defines AI agents as git repos, exportable to any framework with one CLI command
Mar 20 [ai] NVIDIA's Nemotron-Cascade 2 hits gold-medal math and coding with a 30B MoE using only 3B active parameters
Mar 19 [ai] GLM-OCR: A 0.9B document parsing specialist beats 235B models
Mar 18 [ai] Baidu's Qianfan-OCR collapses the multi-stage OCR pipeline into one 4B model with Layout-as-Thought
Mar 18 [ai] [tools] Google's Colab MCP server lets any AI agent create and run notebooks in the cloud
Mar 17 [ai] [tools] NVIDIA's OpenShell enforces AI agent guardrails outside the agent process so a compromised agent can't override them
Mar 17 [ai] [tools] Unsloth Studio is an open-source no-code UI for training and running local LLMs
Mar 16 [ai] Mistral Small 4 merges instruct, reasoning, and coding into one model with per-request reasoning effort
Mar 15 [ai] [tools] OpenViking: A context database using filesystem paradigm for AI agents
Mar 03 [ai] You can force an LLM to only output valid answers
Mar 02 [ai] [tools] Pipe Mastra agent responses through jq to colorize reasoning and tool calls in the terminal
Feb 20 [ai] [tools] OpenClaw custom skills silently disappear without quoted YAML descriptions and openclaw metadata
Feb 18 [tools] A website can serve a full ANSI terminal UI when curled instead of HTML
Feb 18 [ai] [music] Google DeepMind's Lyria 3 generates full songs from a photo or a sentence
Feb 17 [tools] [ai] HTTPie needs --ignore-stdin in non-TTY environments like Claude Code
Feb 16 [tools] [asana] HTTPie interprets numeric keys as array indexes, breaks Asana custom field updates
Feb 12 [ai] [automation] Claude Code runs natively as a GitHub Action
Feb 09 [ai] Kimi's agent swarm runs up to 100 parallel sub-agents to escape context window limits
Jan 30 [tools] glow strips color when called from a subprocess: force it with env vars
Jan 21 [ai] [tools] Zvec is an embedded vector database aiming to be the SQLite of vector search
2025
Sep 12 [ai] [asana] LLMs struggle with Asana's strict non-standard rich text format
2024
Dec 03 [asana] [ai] [mcp] MCP servers support prompts as a first-class concept, separate from tools