~20 years of XP Software Dev 👨💻 - Dabbling with local AI 🏠🤖 (personal account)
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After two years of development in stealth mode, incredibly excited to present this to the world, next week at @LuganoPlanB Forum!
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We just released QVAC TranscribePsy, a speech-to-text model small enough to run inside a phone app.
It covers 25 European languages on a laptop and 8 on a phone, and on an iPhone 17 Pro Max's Neural Engine the 8-language build transcribes a 10-minute recording in 1.65 seconds.
Glasses, robots and phones are moving to voice, and each of them first has to write down what you said. Today that step mostly happens on a server.
TranscribePsy does it on the phone or laptop, so dictation and meeting notes keep working with no signal, and a private conversation can be transcribed without the recording ever leaving the room.
Run it on our qvac-fabric-speech.cpp's parakeet engine, which optimizes for efficient execution and delivers the highest performance.
Get the models: huggingface.co/collections/q…
Song from the original video. Opus 5.5 made a new video for it from the audio alone, without seeing the original: youtube.com/watch?v=NgRkyAIJ…
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QVAC's mission is to make intelligence a universal right, not a subscription. Our AI runs on your phone or laptop, and it is open source so you can verify it.
@paoloardoino expects 70% of everyday AI tasks to run locally in three years.
Lyrics (Grok):
[Verse 1]
Used to Ctrl-C Stack Overflow like a ritual every night
Downvote priests in the temple telling me my question ain’t right
Traffic tanked when ChatGPT learned to smile and paste for free
Now we miss those angry strangers… and they miss our karma greed
Davinci whispered secrets in a prompt box painted black
GPT-3 taught the world to ship while we were still on Slack
Then Sonnet 3.5 showed up and made the keyboard feel so slow
Opus said “relax, my love — just tell me where to go”
[Chorus]
Programming is dead — DHH said put the pencils down
Go raise tomatoes, paint the shed, or paint Warhammer brown
Stay-at-home dads and McDonald’s shifts, hike and cycle till you’re red
Yo — the agents write the PR now… programming is dead
[Verse 2]
Used to copy-paste from Stack — then we copied Chat instead
Now you talk unto the computer like it’s living in your head
Fable sings a bedtime story while Astra ships the build
Claude’s got a thousand faces and they all get overtime billed
AI doom on the timeline, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V the fear
Fork the repo, fork your life, the singularity’s here
Last month agents need a nudge — “please fix the failing test”
Next month they don’t need you… and they merge without request
[Chorus]
Programming is dead — DHH said put the pencils down
Go raise tomatoes, paint the shed, or paint Warhammer brown
Stay-at-home dads and McDonald’s shifts, hike and cycle till you’re red
Yo — the agents write the PR now… programming is dead
makevoid retweeted
You should be able to run AI on any device.
You should be able to use it with no internet connection.
You should be able to use it without a credit card.
You should be able to use it in the language you actually speak.
You should be able to ask it anything without anyone else reading the question.
You should not need anyone's permission to use it.
Intelligence should be a right, not a subscription.
You should be able to use smarter models in your agent.
You should be able to use cheaper models in your agent.
You should be able to use local models in your agent.
You should be able to use a different model for every job.
You should be able to switch models in the middle of a conversation.
You should be able to choose what data your agent has.
You should be able to choose what it remembers and what it forgets.
You should be able to choose what computer your agent runs on.
You should be able to run it on a machine that never touches the internet.
You should be able to run it while your laptop is closed.
You should be able to reach it from the apps you already use.
You should be able to choose how your agent thinks.
You should be able to read the prompt it runs on.
You should be able to see every tool it has, and turn off the ones you don't want.
You should be able to teach it something once and never explain it again.
You should be able to know what it did, and when, and why.
You should be able to export your agent.
You should be able to read the code.
You should be able to change the code.
Your agent should be yours.
Remade @donaldjewkes' "upping my p(doom)" as a paper music video, end-to-end with Opus 5.5.
6M tokens + ~$65 of image/video generation 👇
🤖 Made with AI
gave it the task of predicting the future
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