Charis Tsevis

Visual designer living on the sunny side of the planet.
Not posting here often. Find me on Bsky:

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

@Idkmyna50835446 @CharlesMichel @vonderleyen Αν ποτέ τις σέβονταν θα ήταν ευχής εργον. Αλλά αν όχι πρέπει να δείχνουμε ακριβώς αυτές.

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

Kimi K2.6: Open source state-of-the-art coding, long-horizon execution, and agent swarm capabilities!
https://t.co/yBvSYiVWtC

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

Wow! @Alibaba_Qwen did it again!

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

🚀 Meet Qwen3.6-27B, our latest dense, open-source model, packing flagship-level coding power!

Yes, 27B, and Qwen3.6-27B punches way above its weight. 👇

What's new:
🧠 Outstanding agentic coding — surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B across all major coding benchmarks
💡 Strong reasoning across text & multimodal tasks
🔄 Supports thinking & non-thinking modes
✅ Apache 2.0 — fully open, fully yours

Smaller model. Bigger results. Community's favorite. ❤️
We can't wait to see what you build with Qwen3.6-27B! 👀

🔗👇
Blog: https://t.co/P2Zx7FwMxB
Qwen Studio: https://t.co/c4vm4LuZrU
Github: https://t.co/zKDEbv0R4U
Hugging Face:
https://t.co/N67hyzxvfr
https://t.co/SSdtbWRDap
ModelScope:
https://t.co/xODf1pj9kw
https://t.co/xXhoqlJ2AB

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

Opus 4.7 feels more intelligent, agentic, and precise than 4.6. It took a few days for me to learn how to work with it effectively, to fully take advantage of its new capabilities.

Will post a few more tips throughout the day, starting with this blog post: https://t.co/XQrH8P28yo

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

Built a local batch vectorization pipeline for Apple Silicon. Full writeup now live.
Stack: Moondream 2 (Ollama) → GroundingDINO → SAM 2.1 HQ → VitMatte ViT-B → VTracer (Rust)
Everything offline. ~5GB weights. MPS backend. No cloud.
Architecture: 5 typing.Protocol interfaces, constructor-injected CapabilitySet, Orchestrator never imports a concrete model class.
Key detail: GroundedSAM implements both Detector + Segmenter. One class, two protocols, two slots in the capability bundle.
Batch mode: Interrogate all images first → mandatory human Triage gate → GPU pipeline fires only on confirmed labels. 10 min human review prevents 2hr GPU waste.
Article: https://t.co/HgRZ1ukRbW
Code: https://t.co/deCVraoMp2

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

Dear friends,
I would like to share with you Hipparchus! It's a little map machine. I so much wanted to have a tool like this for my maps related work and since I finished it I believe that you may find it useful for your projects as well.
Its name is Hipparchus, because apparently, I cannot resist ancient Greek names for tools that do useful things.
Hipparchus takes OpenStreetMap data and turns it into clean, editable vector maps. The nice part: it exports layered SVG files, so roads, buildings, parks, water, labels, railways, and coastlines can all be edited separately in Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Inkscape, etc.
For creative friends: this can become a base for posters, editorial illustrations, city portraits, educational maps, travel graphics, urban studies, generative art, and all kinds of “I need the geometry of a place, but I want to make it mine” projects.
Free, open source, and ready for curious hands:
https://t.co/nS3UomFLwk

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

"How many times are we going to fall for this? Like seriously. I mean, it's the same story like every six months it seems."
Thank you, @tcarambat!
Not everyone in the AI industry is drinking the Kool-Aid.
https://t.co/GNprKmRXZ9
#ClaudeMythos

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

Dear friends, fellow designers and tech-enthusiasts, I would like to share with you Skiagrafia, a desktop app for batch image segmentation, masking, and vector silhouette generation.
It’s built to process entire folders of images using local, open-source VL, CV, and language models, then export production-ready masks and layered SVG outputs.
Repo: https://t.co/n7X4QE55Lv

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

Thank you, @claudeai!

[Claude @claudeai]

A small thank you to everyone using Claude: We’re doubling usage outside our peak hours for the next two weeks.

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

👇🩷

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

This is the textbook I wrote to support the most advanced high school math/CS sequence in the USA.

It's freely available. Link in first reply.

In Math Academy's (former) Eurisko program, which ran from 2020-23, we scaffolded high school students up to doing masters/PhD-level coursework: reproducing academic research papers in artificial intelligence, building everything from scratch in Python.

We currently have all of Eurisko's math prerequisites available on the Math Academy system (which is where Matteo and other Eurisko students learned it).

Eurisko ended in 2023 when I relocated because nobody else in the district had the requisite knowledge to teach it.

But we will eventually have the entire Eurisko curriculum, and more, on the Math Academy system.

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

For more than two years, now I’ve been experimenting with building software tools with AI assistants.
People call it #vibecoding. I’m not very fond of the term.
Coding itself was never really the goal. The goal is building systems that do something useful.
A few thoughts about technology, abstraction, and AI.
For more than two years, I’ve been experimenting with building software tools with AI assistants.
https://t.co/NSdhxnbydB

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

In a world that can feel pretty heavy, it's wonderful to see the focus shift to creating objects of pure joy and wonder:

[RISD @risd]

David Weeks, RISD alum and designer of the classic Cubebot toy robot, worked with first-year students in a Wintersession studio focused on iteration and simplicity https://t.co/EEYM6scztb

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

Dear friends, I want to share my MacWhisperer project, a small tool I built for my Mac.
It helps me turn interesting videos and podcasts into clean, readable text that I can reuse in many ways.
I also use it to quickly record ideas and convert them into editable text right away, for myself, friends, or even machine workflows.
It runs on OpenAI’s Whisper model locally on my Mac.
Simple, private, and really handy: no spoken content is uploaded to a web server.
Feel free to whisper anything :-)
https://t.co/ZNxCGG1Npu

P.S. for non-Mac users:
I call it MacWhisperer because it started from a Mac-oriented Whisper workflow, but the core is portable.
If you’re on Windows/Linux, you can run it with small edits.

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

I've officially upgraded to the Qwen Coding Plan via
@alibaba_cloud. While the initial setup required a bit more effort than anticipated, the value proposition is undeniable: access to 8 models for just $10/month. As a long-time Qwen Code user who has also explored MiniMax, Kimi, and GLM, I'm eager to evaluate how this integration optimizes my development workflow.

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

I was looking through some old Bruno Munari material and stumbled upon his brilliant 1944 manifesto, "Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair." In it, he asks a question that stopped me: Why do we obsess over inventing a "never-before-seen" chair, instead of perfecting the most comfortable one we already have? He uses wit to critique design’s endless pursuit of novelty, those "floral hammers" and "baroque" furniture pieces that so often sacrifice an object's true purpose.
Munari’s call to action is to work for Man, not just for "creativity (or bizarreness)." A timeless reminder that true innovation can also mean refinement, and that placing a simple, functional object in the right place can be a radical act. #Creativity #design
https://t.co/W6aakouul7

[V7700 @V7700SN]

Opus 4.5 + three.js + mediapipe = Absolute Cinema

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

Most probably #Transformers may remain dominant in 2026. At the same time, hybrid architectures and efficiency-focused designs are accelerating.
Diffusion Language Models offer fast parallel generation. New research shows strong multi-epoch learning behavior:
#AIResearch #LLMs

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

https://t.co/5RF7KRzZeu

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

Γιατί υιοθετείτε τον πόλεμο και τον αναπαράγετε.
Και με τι υλικό; Ένα κομμάτι από ένα ολόκληρο προϊόν υποκλοπής που δεν γνωρίζετε. Και που ακόμη και αν οι εντυπώσεις που θέλει να εξάγει ισχύουν με τίποτα δεν πιστοποιείται πως ο ΠτΔ έχει αποτύχει σε κάτι.
Διότι κανένα αδίκημα δεν έχει συμβεί.

[Charis Tsevis @tsevis]

@MelusineDeChy @nickaizer1 @Aias1955 @Christodulides Τα έχω πει αλλού. Μην τα επαναλάβω. Άλλωστε σε ανώνυμους λογαριασμούς που κάνουν μαθήματα πατριωτισμού τι να πει κανείς;!