Jack Ivers

@Jackivers
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Fractional CTO, leadership coach, and advisor on emerging technology and entrepreneuring. Illustrator by prompt.
Crafty CTOhttps://craftycto.com/
Blog—Crafty's Illustratedhttps://craftycto.com/blog
About Craftyhttps://craftycto.com/about/
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jackivers/

Just published my Day 1 highlights from the AI Engineer World's Fair 2025! 🚀

Key takeaways:
🎯 Swyx's "SPADE" for AI's Standard Model
💡 Sarah Guo on "Cursor for X"
🧪 Simon Willison's "pelican test"
🛠️ Model Context Protocol (MCP)
🤝 Greg Brockman & Swyx on AI Engineering

Full recap: https://craftycto.com/blog/aiewf2025-my-day-1-highlights/

#AIEWF2025 #AIEngineering #ArtificialIntelligence

I have questions about the new generation of Tesla buyers.
A fairly deep dive into Observable Framework
https://craftycto.com/blog/observable-framework-blazing-fast/
@simon
Observable Framework Delivers Blazing-fast Data Dashboards | Crafty CTO

An exciting new offering, launched in February, from the team that brought us Observable Notebooks

On April 9th, OpenAI released an updated gpt-4-turbo model:

“GPT-4 Turbo with Vision: The latest GPT-4 Turbo model with vision capabilities. Vision requests can now use JSON mode and function calling.”

In updating my Recipe Ingestor project to use the new model (and eliminate an ugly workaround), I found a pair of new Vision examples in the OpenAI Cookbook, which show vision working with function calling. Worth a look if this is your kind of thing.

https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/multimodal/using_gpt4_vision_with_function_calling

Root cause of “Google search is unusable now”

Prabhakar Raghavan, a true master of enshittification.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/24/zitron-google-search

@gruber

Ed Zitron: ‘The Man Who Killed Google Search’

Link to: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Daring Fireball
@caseyliss @tailscale
Here’s my AWS-focused Tailscale post, Casey, wherein I deferred to you for the “What is Tailscale, Really?” explanation.
https://craftycto.com/blog/tailscale-fun/
Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters | Crafty CTO

Tailscale has been simple to set up and manage, but also amazingly flexible.

This is usually not a good look
Interesting weather to the west ... I love RadarScope’s Super-Res Specific Differential Phase ....
@caseyliss @tailscale Nice Tailscale post. I’m in the middle of writing a post about Tailscale in an AWS / RDS environment, but felt I had to explain “what is Tailscale” first ... now I’ll just link to yours “READ THIS” and focus on the AWS part.
@[email protected] TIL who Hector Martin is! (Hacker News mention)