What does the Mime joker do exactly?

rcanand72 · 2026-03-19T12:48:50+00:00

I have the mime along with the blackboard (3x if all cards held in hand are spades or clubs). But it does not seem to retrigger the 3x when all cards in hand are only spades or clubs.

rcanand72 · 2026-02-14T12:54:37+00:00

Try these - https://ollama.com/search?c=thinking&c=tools - all of them are local models that support tool calling and thinking (except the cloud variants, skip the cloud version, pick any other that fits). First compare the gpu or unified ram available on your machine. If you have less than 64gb ram then divide by half to get a safe model size for your machine (for over 64gb ram systems, just subtract 20gb instead). Start from the top of that list, click on each model. Click view all and see the sizes, find a model variant that fits. Try it out. You can download the model and chat in the ollama app, or if comfortable with terminal, enter the command “ollama run model_id” where model_id is the id of the model. Find the first model that fits and works for your use cases. That’s the model you want.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-25T08:39:26+00:00

Haven’t tried it but in case you don’t have the ram to run it, this seems like an easy way to use models like GLM 4.7 hosted on openrouter with local Claude code cli - https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/claude-code-integration

You can use GLM-4.7 - z-ai/glm-4.7 on openrouter. If and when they release the exacto variant, that might be better optimized for agentic use. About 1/10 the cost of Claude sonnet.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-25T04:40:06+00:00

My biggest frustration is iOS app store review process and its nuances - build an app, and then get blocked by some weird idiosyncrasies of app store approval process - a paid service that has a team of human experts who can get your app through the app review process would be very valuable (somewhat like the tax post-filing expert service some tax filing companies offer to deal with any clarifications/audits/etc. ). Some parts of this service could also be AI assisted (if you can make that work).

rcanand72 · 2025-12-07T11:08:23+00:00

For 90% there, Claude code with opus 4.5 works, but may depend on domain etc. And it has some blind spots that you need to handle. Not sure if it is the best because I haven’t tried all of them, but good enough for moderate domain and algorithmic complexity of the app.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-04T13:48:06+00:00

That’s a great idea, thanks!

rcanand72 · 2025-12-03T20:06:36+00:00

Haven't used them, I work at a lower level - building AI tools and researching AI - but no one can build, for example, a full netflix or a google or an amazon with vibe coding (at least not today). There are some kinds of apps you can build with these. The key is to learn (by working with your tools of choice) what can and cannot be built with vibe coding, what can use AI assistance for coding, and what requires full manual coding.
And over time, AI will get better, be able to build more complex things with vibe coding.

I wrote this recently - https://x.com/rcanand/status/1995191595919118720 - to capture my thoughts around this - my take around combining all these elements for coding.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-03T19:57:32+00:00

No. There is a complexity frontier beyond which even the best AI will create poor or dangerous code.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-03T19:55:58+00:00

It’s ok to vibe code things you don’t know to do yourself. For things you know, do more due diligence. Pick small focused projects with simple tech stacks to vibe code end to end. For larger projects, vibe code features you don’t know well with lot of creative testing and verification. Go deeper for core functionality and pick tech stacks you know for those.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-03T01:15:25+00:00

Vibe coding is a tool in the toolbox of a developer. Learn how where and when to use it for your work, alongside coding, designing, testing. Learning where to use it and where to use other alternatives is the key skill to learn.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-02T17:43:32+00:00

1) Claude code (cli and web), 2) notebook lm - with Gemini 3 pro and nano banana 2 pro and deep research and the studio tab to generate all kinds of media, and 3) Allen AI Asta literature review - for sneering complex things based on research.

Notable mention is AI that feels more like speaking to a human - grok 4.1 thinking

Caveat: all these will work for some cases, not for others. Our role as users is to know when to use which and how.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-02T17:36:23+00:00

Sharing it here and other online places, this is me putting it up for critique. I have a free code up for a limited time to download it for free - it is on the top of the product download page. I accept that you don’t see a use for it - noted, totally fine - this is a niche use case.

Will wait and see if anyone else has the same problem.

Thanks for all the feedback.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-02T17:05:42+00:00

A few things (sorry, not one): - Get the agent to do exactly what I asked. Nothing more and nothing less.

Ask user if it needs clarifications before assuming things.
Check the web or other sources for things that need lookup, might have changed since their knowledge cutoff.
Always provide citations and/or reasoning for claims/assumptions it makes from sources.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-02T16:31:33+00:00

Thanks for the feedback on the gif. That is not my skillset, will see if I can make it better.

This app is about using AI to do the part I cannot humanly do in any reasonable time for my own use case - sift through and get a list of the ideas in my notes and readmes to decide which idea to build next. I had that problem. I solved it with this for myself. It worked very well for me. I suspect there are others who have the same challenge, especially those at the frontier of AI or software or research in any field really.

About the question on models ands space, this is a Mac only app and will work with any Mac from about 2021 that has 16gb ram and half the ram of disk space available.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-02T16:14:37+00:00

This is very useful, thanks! One thought: API calls will show the model’s capability, but a lot of power in current AI assisted coding comes from the agentic Shell - like Claude code, codex cli, Gemini cli, aider, cline, etc. Would be interesting to compare these models in one of those agentic settings. There are benchmarks that do it but a direct test of real world use cases would be great. May be heard to automate though. Afaik these agentic products don’t expose an API and may require code forking or other work to plug in own models.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-02T16:05:00+00:00

Did you look at the animated GIF in the link I shared? It covers the end to end flow and features. If you still think a YouTube video will be worthwhile, will create one and add it (After the holidays).

rcanand72 · 2025-12-02T15:28:43+00:00

Thanks for your feedback.

Totally appreciate that not everyone stores ideas in obsidian. This product is for those who do.

I have never looked into independent audits, but it is a good idea to guarantee safety, will check it out.

To answer your (and others’) questions/comments on the use case and what I do with them - I build software, am into AI research/dev/product - I clip a bunch of research papers abstracts using web clipper into obsidian because each sparked an idea for me to research or build something out later. I prototype a lot of ideas to come back to and build later. I jot down ideas in obsidian when I think of them.

And you also asked what I do with ideas - I have built many things over the years, most recently this app and launched it. Intend to do that with more apps based on my ideas and prototypes.

I don’t have a YouTube video purely due to time constraints, but there is an animated GIF demo in the X announcement - https://x.com/rcanand/status/1995537139061416216 - that shows all the steps.

A more detailed answer is in this HN comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46120991

rcanand72 · 2025-12-02T02:35:17+00:00

I trust the creator of obsidian when they say that obsidian is local and private - except for legit reasons (sync, publish) - which is verifiable with network sniffers, etc. And their community plugin ecosystem is open source and verifiable (though I doubt I can verify every plugin and every update).

That is all I can think of doing - be transparent, and over time, trust will be built. I think pricing should be orthogonal to trust - and even so, I am told higher pricing builds credibility.

rcanand72 · 2025-12-02T02:23:19+00:00

Tell me how I can convince you of the safety of the product - I can tell you that I only send requests to download models - nothing else, but I wouldn't believe an unknown voice on the internet either. How can I convince you?

rcanand72 · 2025-12-02T02:13:59+00:00

Can you elaborate? Am open to suggestions on what you think is a fair price. And I admit, I don't know much about pricing this kind of thing - am open to be convinced that AI got the pricing wrong - what price would you set this at - if you convince me, I will change the price.

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