Hi there,
This week felt like two timelines converging: software getting radically more personalized, and hardware getting radically more specialized. On one side, you can spin up niche tools in hours. On the other, teams are trying to compress full model stacks directly into silicon to slash latency.
📃 In this Monday Morning Mashup:
⭐Highlight: Taalas and instant-speed inference
🤖AI: Bespoke software is becoming normal
🔧Tools: Tambo for component-native agent UX
🌐Web: A JavaScript city builder went viral again
Have a great week!
⭐Highlight: Taalas and the case for instant-speed AI hardware
Taalas is making a bold bet: transform a model into custom silicon in roughly two months, avoid complex HBM-heavy stacks, and optimize for ultra-low latency plus lower operating cost. Their public write-up frames this as a historical shift from giant, expensive prototypes toward practical and deployable systems.
The eye-catching number is about 16,000 tokens per second on their current setup. If you want to feel how fast that is in practice, they also expose a live demo at chatjimmy.ai where generation feels effectively instant. Try it, it’s wacky!
Right now this is demonstrated on an 8B-class model, so it is not yet a drop-in answer for frontier-scale reasoning. But if the same model-to-silicon pipeline extends to larger models, the implications are big for robotics control loops, real-time video generation, speech avatars, and other domains where sub-second responsiveness is the whole game.
Taalas’ original write-up on custom AI silicon, latency constraints, and production economics.
🤖AI: Bespoke software is moving from theory to weekly habit
Andrej Karpathy shared a great concrete example: he built a custom cardio dashboard for an 8-week heart-rate experiment, with an agent wiring together API access, transformations, and UI generation in about an hour. The bigger point is that this kind of workflow does not fit neatly into traditional app-store logic where you pick from fixed software products.
I think this is the clearest framing yet for where agent UX is going: less one-size-fits-all apps, more ephemeral software assembled around your exact task and context. We are still early, but the ergonomics are improving fast.
Andrej Karpathy on bespoke, agent-built software
A detailed thread describing a real workflow where an AI agent built a personalized experiment tracker end-to-end.
🔧Tools: Tambo packages generative UI patterns into a React-first toolkit
One of this week’s strongest GitHub links was tambo-ai/tambo, an open-source toolkit for building agent experiences that render real components instead of plain text blobs. The README focuses on schema-registered components, streaming props, and MCP-aware integration patterns for production apps.
Practically, this is the kind of abstraction layer many teams need right now: less ad-hoc prompt wiring, more typed UI contracts between model output and frontend state.
Generative UI SDK for React with component registration, streamed props, and agent-oriented interface primitives.
🌐Web: IsoCity is a fun reminder that tiny projects can still punch above their weight
A short X post pointed to victorqribeiro/isocity, an isometric city builder in JavaScript. It is not new, but it’s a nice example of a small, focused codebase that remains highly shareable because the artifact is instantly understandable.
In an era of increasingly complex AI stacks, I still love seeing compact projects that are playful, inspectable, and easy to remix.
Isometric city builder written in JavaScript, shared this week through X bookmarks.
⚡Quick Hits
openai/skills - Skills catalog pattern for packaging repeatable agent capabilities and workflows.
github.com
alehkot/android-emu-agent - Early CLI + daemon loop for LLM-driven Android UI control on emulators.
github.com
summarize v0.11.1 - Release adds Groq Whisper preference, better CLI fallback behavior, and reliability fixes for local files/stdin.
github.com
ReScienceLab/opc-skills - Agent skills collection aimed at solopreneur workflows and automation patterns.
github.com
Have a great week!