Matthew Spence

🚀 Shipping Software and AI - see what I do 👇

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

utterly huge progress - if you want a private mobile phone AI assistant, using local AI, works offline, code published on GitHub, you have got to check out Whisper AI

(yes im associated)

Find link on my bio website

[Whisper • AI @UseWhisperAI]

Biggest update yet for Whisper AI:

🎙 Audio — record, transcribe and chat with your conversations. On-device.

🖼 Images — ask questions about what you see.

🤗Hugging Face — search and download models directly in app.

🔀 Multi-provider — Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT, Open Router and more. Switch between models mid-conversation.

Some features require newer devices. Older hardware still gets a fully private AI assistant.

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

A self burn - now those are rare

[Samay @Samaytwt]

Unpopular opinion: "AI makes everyone a developer" is true the same way "cameras makes everyone a photographer"

[Thomas Gauvin @thomasgauvin]

Cloudflare Mesh is here. Ready to connect your devices, servers, and agents to a single private network 🔐

And with Workers VPC, your Workers, Agents, and Durable Objects running on Cloudflare can now reach your private MCPs, APIs, and databases directly

Oh, and it's 50 nodes + 50 users free on every account

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

Theory - the more relevant "measuring sticks" you provide an AI towards a goal, the less oversight you need

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

give me storage, of any size, and I will always fill it

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

@anthonysheww Anthony, this is a really exciting update - finally get a moment to breathe and reflect on your own incredible skills between builds - this is the kind of cutting edge thinking we need more of!

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

@Don_Felipe007 @UseWhisperAI Absolutely no AI chat limits! Once you’ve got the app, you’re free to use any feature on there as much as you wish

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

@rossmorsali So right. I don’t mind it some much when you can’t tell it’s ai…. but even the smallest hallmarks immediately turn my attention away

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

My feed is so obviously 50% ai written now

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

@emollick Far more likely to upload your entire drive to Claude instead

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

@willlamerton Bless, Qwen3.5:0.8b being very self aware of it's abilities

[Google @Google]

Today @GoogleMaps is getting its biggest upgrade in over a decade. By combining our Gemini models with a deep understanding of the world, Maps now unlocks entirely new possibilities for how you navigate and explore. Here’s what you need to know 🧵

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

Cloudflare is after blood - impressive

https://t.co/vzdGipQPr5

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

for Typescript developers out there

when you store JSON locally, the structure inevitably changes over time

we've been dealing with this ourselves across a few projects and figured it was time to build something small and focused to handle it properly.

so we created a type-safe JSON migration library for TypeScript

https://t.co/pKdJ3l39Es

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

Watching OpenAI sell out the public in real time

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

Today was a CRAZY day in the AI space.

Morning - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to work with the Pentagon because they wanted to use Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous killer robots.

Afternoon - OpenAI’s Sam Altman came out in support saying, “For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company and I think they really do care about safety.”

Evening - President Trump banned Anthropic from every federal agency in the United States government.

Night - Sam Altman flipped. OpenAI submitted a bid to replace Anthropic and officially reached a deal with the Pentagon.

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/nKTDfC7zMm

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

@simeonGriggs Especially, with the heavy use, of a comma

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

@FollowBenParry asked last week "What's been the hardest technical problem so far" for Whisper...

After the last few days, I'd say how we safely update user's JSON data between App versions is a contender

Ended up creating `json-up` - a new NPM package to solve migrating JSON (https://t.co/F7rdoFaK7f)

[Matthew Spence @mrspencehimself]

@noahzweben Looks cool! Want to try it out but finding myself stuck all of a sudden