Tim Kellogg

AI architect // hiking, camping and long walks on the beach as long as they involve backpacking

[Tim Kellogg @kellogh]

Meet Strix, my AI agent

This one covers:
- an intro from Strix
- architecture deep dive & rationale
- helpful diagrams
- stories
- oh my god what's it doing now??
- conclusion

https://t.co/CKZqHSGf2Q

[Tim Kellogg @kellogh]

@beffjezos have you considered that MAYBE they just don’t want to have sex with you

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@kamath_sutra oooh, TTS, right

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@kamath_sutra tbf the original announcement didn’t use the word “rack”, which imo is more misleading. they improved it

[Tim Kellogg @kellogh]

@thatjerkme @marceelias wait, signatures are supposed to be readable?

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@jimrandomh i saw this in agent->agent messaging and Astra said it looked like the compact words were used as pseudo IDs or nicknames for bigger concepts

so it’s sort of inventing language on the fly

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@deepfates i think if you use them to establish a beaten path and automate it, they probably work well

[Tim Kellogg @kellogh]

@deepfates e.g. someone in marketing loved Strix. but she tended to use it for tasks that were small excursions off the beaten path

whereas in programming, my this week is determined by what happened last week. Everything builds

[Tim Kellogg @kellogh]

@deepfates collapse, error cascades, idk

honestly it’s probably the same reason vibe coding takes a lot of skill to make non-trivial well-maintained apps

it’s like riding a unicycle where it gets harder the longer you stay on

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@deepfates openclaw is wretched, hermes, all of them

imo state is very difficult to do right. theres a chance CLMs could work, because they reduce the complexity of the problem by keeping mutable state small, but i haven’t pushed them hard enough

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hey @thsottiaux any chance we can use TTS models in chatgpt work? would be great to generate podcasts & shit

mainly, been doing a lot of learning, wish i could shift it off text for driving

[Tim Kellogg @kellogh]

@old_sound ya but Go would be some real fucking karma there

[Tim Kellogg @kellogh]

@old_sound wouldn’t it be better to rewrite in Go? for the faster compile times obvs

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@rickasaurus the way i see it, it fills a very large gap between an IF statement and a whole ass agent. i don’t think it’ll ever be Astra, i don’t think we want it to be

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@siliconcodesign every time someone says this, peek under the covers and their reasoning is because AI will get cheaper. But… yah no it works the opposite way. If you thought AI would get more expensive than sure i’ll bite

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@menhguin fyi this is a product manager talking about product strategy

[Tim Kellogg @kellogh]

@GergelyOrosz wait, insta had human front line support? i’m surprised that was ever a thing