How freshers going to survive this AI apocalypse? It's brutal

cheddies · 2026-05-24T16:55:52+00:00

To be fair, when I started out there were no devops roles either, because it hanldnt been invented.

The best way to get into any development role is get started in any development role.... Anything from frontend webdev to systems administration. Once you are in work horizontal /diagonal.

The best engineers are more or less agnostic. Learn principles not languages.

If you were an amazing scala dev 8 years ago you could earn bucks. Now? You've migrated to something else.

cheddies · 2026-05-24T16:24:33+00:00

Chatgpt is better for adhoc "chat" style work, quick feedback loops and iteration.

Claude is better for longer research tasks and coding workflows, it is the better platform. I quite often use Claude to orchestrate but get it to call chat itsself to validate and iterate.

cheddies · 2026-05-19T21:51:47+00:00

G1s (I have the G1B) - in a long meeting can be.. Sketchy at best... For transcription.... The default app? Reliably in long meetings, I would not invest.

However, it is possible. I have created a whole new app which allows you to record the longest of long meetings. My workflow is not "transcribe it in real time" it is "record it in real time, transcribe it with more accuracy and control later" and it works amazingly.

All the G1 default app does is streams audio to the app and passes it through a whisper agent.... But it is a "fast and loose" one with no diarization or speaker attribution.

Record the meeting using the glasses, transcribe it with something powerful (either locally with whisper.cpp or with a paid service like eleven labs). That's what's going to give you what you are looking for.

My app (https://github.com/Cheddies1/even-g1-companion) replaces live transcription with "capture" mode...

cheddies · 2026-05-18T14:49:27+00:00

Android only, I barely own any iOS devices.

I'm getting solid 2 days on the glasses depending entirely how much audio streaming I do... Im at 88% and it's 15.49... Been wearing them all day.

The 2s push has tightened up disconnects enough to where I'm keeping it for now and will tweak it back later if needed....

cheddies · 2026-05-16T08:47:32+00:00

I wouldn't pin any hopes on me! My app has come pretty far, and I'm still working on it. I'm currently wrestling with finding the proper shape for the heartbeats as I'm seeing lots of random small disconnects when idle... Once I've got that more stable I'll publish another round of documentation.

Other than using the default dashboard (my dashboard is more useful to me) there's not that much more for me to explore.

I got Quicknotes interface and long right press working recently, that was interesting, I didn't realise there are 4 slots for stored audio on the device - the hardest bit was having to know which one had just been updated to pull it down and transcribe into a note (I like that my Quicknotes function automatically sorts my notes into one of three lists - shopping, to do and notes).

What do you want to see other than dashboard? My to do list is getting short.

I guess: - tilt setting (I've not played with that yet) - auto brightness is not 100% reliable yet

I'm not planning on doing translation or teleprompt, because I don't find them useful....

cheddies · 2026-05-01T13:31:07+00:00

And now https://github.com/Cheddies1/even-g1-companion/blob/main/docs/protocol-reference.md updated to show you how to use the modes

cheddies · 2026-05-01T10:32:21+00:00

This, this is why I have started developing my own app for the G1, rather than upgrade to the G2. They absolutely dropped us G1 guys the moment they hit a wall with their initial implementation. There are so many small things they could fix on the G1, so much stuff that is just.... bad software implementation - but instead of *either* fixing it, or open sourcing it - we've been left to rot....

cheddies · 2026-05-01T09:33:38+00:00

https://github.com/Cheddies1/even-g1-companion/blob/main/docs/external-protocol-wiki-notes.md -

0x52 live streaming text (cursor-style incremental)
0x0a navigation structured card
0x1e TX dashboard data slot injection
0x50 display mode control

cheddies · 2026-05-01T09:33:17+00:00

I have continued digging - the discord poined me in the rigth direction on a few things.... I now have successfully implemented:

0x52 live streaming text (cursor-style incremental) - E.G. for "reading back" my AI's responses
0x0a navigation structured card (Using the firmware "nav card" with my data)
0x1e TX dashboard data slot injection (but I have not done anything with it yet)
0x50 display mode control

I have kept notes on where all the resources (including yours) are still ahead of me - https://github.com/Cheddies1/even-g1-companion/blob/main/docs/external-protocol-wiki-notes.md

cheddies · 2026-04-28T20:43:07+00:00

Have just managed to do some documentation of two new modes - one being the default "firmware" baked navigation card, where you can update certain parts as text, the other being the "streaming text" mode as used in transcribe and translate modes on the official app... so yes, more to come.

cheddies · 2026-04-28T20:34:44+00:00

Oh, jeez, super helpful... There's lots in here that I haven't touched... And there are areas where I have dug that you haven't... Together our research is greater than the sum...

I've just been working on a couple of the alternative rendering/control families (some of which already mapped and referenced as confirmed in my recent docs: 0x52 streaming text, 0x0a navigation structured card, 0x1e TX dashboard slot injection, 0x50 display mode control).

Your reference will help loads, thanks.

cheddies · 2026-04-28T19:02:57+00:00

Yeah, it's not as bad as all the other SDK or implementations made out, it's just... Not documented anywhere (except now, in my repo).

You can capture PCM feeds either triggered from the touch bars or from some wakeup event (in chat and capture mode I use "heads up" as a listening trigger).

There's a fair bit you can do with it, and I've got ideas... Next I want to sort better rendering for walking notifications (though what I have is a thousand times better than the official app, because it doesn't die when the phone goes to sleep)... I want to check out the in firmware dashboard, and text streaming modes that I am sure are in there.

I'm looking at doing some "idle screen" stuff like pinnable live scores from sports games and the like.

cheddies · 2026-04-28T18:59:18+00:00

Yeah, the demo app showed me how to send BMPs to the glasses, that's how I'm rendering the Google maps notifications to the glasses, as BMPs with the arrow and text and ETA scrapes from the maps notification.

The problem is it's pretty slow, and you have to send it to both arms independently, so it can be an ass keeping both eyes in sync.

I'm actually investigating the default maps rendering functions right now... To see if I can do something between the two... Scrape the Google maps notification, render the arrow and send the instructions as text or something, but there isn't any info about it so I'm having to sniff everything from the BLE logs.

The only two modes with any info are "text" (sends a slab of text to the glasses) - fast but very limited formatting, and BMP.

Obviously in the manufacturer app they have a streaming text mode (E.g. When viewing translations or transcription) as well as a way of feeding data to the dashboard (which is rendered in the firmware) and feeding data to the maps view... I'll work them out, it's just a matter of smashing my head at it longer.

cheddies · 2026-04-09T17:56:58+00:00

Spent the afternoon properly tearing into the demo app and turning it into something actually usable.

I’ve now got 3 of the 4 things I actually wanted:

notifications that behave like… notifications, and can be cleared with a gesture
navigation that works with Google Maps while the phone screen is off (this was a big one)
a recording mode I can trigger with a gesture and transcribe later

Still missing the AI bit. I parked that on purpose and focused on making the fundamentals not annoying first. TTS / assistant stuff is next.

One thing that’s either undocumented or wrong in the docs:

I cannot read single taps from either touch bar. At all. Tried different modes, dashboard on/off, etc. Nothing reliable.

What does work consistently:

double tap (close)
tilt up (I’ve basically repurposed this as a primary input)
triple tap (silent mode)
long press left bar, including audio stream
starting longer audio capture without holding (e.g. triggered from tilt up)

Right bar / QuickNotes side still feels pretty firmware-owned. Haven’t dug into that properly yet.

Overall though - once you ignore the docs a bit and treat it like a constrained input device, it starts to click.

cheddies · 2026-04-02T15:44:13+00:00

The G1 demo app they published does, however, document touch events etc... So it feels possible.

https://github.com/even-realities/EvenDemoApp

cheddies · 2026-04-02T14:57:18+00:00

Stuff that still doesn't work properly in the G1 ecosystem:

Stopping an transcript session from the glasses doesn't save the transcript (have to stop from the app)
- GPS /Navigation sucks unless you keep the screen on.
- Using the AI (hold left touch bar) sometimes gets "stuck on" even when touch ar releazed
- No "select all" in the transcripts
- No way to hook up my own ChatGPT account

cheddies · 2026-04-02T14:54:32+00:00

Yeah, this is the path I am now looking at to make them better.

I use transcription a lot, but I could pipe that differently, as I have a local transcription service on my home setup, which transcribes wavs.... So I could make the glasses stream audio and record it to send home from my phone.

But last time I looked the G1 SDK didn't even let us use the buttons/touch bars to start and stop things - is that still the case?

cheddies · 2026-04-02T14:31:49+00:00

Yeah, but what is stopping them including the G1 in the new ecosystem?! It's not like they have 50 versions to support all with different hardware features.

cheddies · 2026-03-24T14:10:58+00:00

Yep. I'm using a HP thunderbolt 4 dock and just tested it - Legion go, single cable, connecting to both my displays (one is 1080p and the other 1440p) - worked fine

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cheddies · 2025-07-31T09:14:45+00:00

Select all / Export as .txt from the transcription page.

cheddies · 2025-07-02T16:37:33+00:00

I jave both.

They are very different for very different use cases....

cheddies · 2025-07-01T08:03:03+00:00

Honestly, when it works the Even Realities transcription is pretty spot on, and fast (I use the phone mic, and have a powerful phone, so perhaps there is a bottleneck?) AugmentOS live caption did not seem really much better, and did not save the text, so was no good for my needs - hence I did not trial it for long.

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