Using Solar on an already heavily optimized Seaport
Kartik retweeted
SOLAR: 100x FASTER SOLIDITY
Solar is the future of Solidity and the EVM.
It's >100x faster than Solc.
It has faster bytecode than Solady with no assembly.
Its bytecode is faster to interpret by the EVM.
Solar fixes Stack Too Deep!
foundryup
forge --use solar
Blog below.
Kartik retweeted
Karpathy's examples assume people will manage API keys, but no one wants to sign up for 100+ of services!
I asked Mercator to "make a 3b1b explainer video"
It found a voice, research, and video API and paid them each a few cents - way easier to think about
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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Found a fun new use case for Muse: messaging my FIL.
He only speaks Korean so it’s been tedious translating back-and-forth. We moved our conversation to IG DMs through Muse and it’s been great so far.
Muse notifies me whenever he messages me with it already translated. I can then iterate on a response with Muse and send it back to him in Korean!
Don’t even need to open IG.
Kartik retweeted
INTRODUCING MERCATOR by @tempo.
Mercator gives agents a new effort level.
By giving an agent a search engine to the world's paid tools it empowers a small model to punch above its weight, while being cheaper than larger models.
$5 Mercator credits w/ your X/Github ⬇️
Muse helped me buy a cake for my wife in Seoul from an indie IG shop she’s a fan of. I don’t speak Korean well (yet) so this usually would have been much harder.
Worst part was actually paying for it as a foreigner. Kept going between Muse and Kakao to figure out an acceptable payment method with her (and we eventually did).
We both initially connected through IG so would have been nice to just have Muse pay her directly (stablecoins on @tempo 😏) rather than exiting to other apps.
In general, I’m extremely bullish on personal agents for travel as these things get even more frictionless to use.
Have switched to Muse since launch and it’s an overall way better experience due to being it’s own native app. I’m a sucker for the minor delightful details and having access to Instagram bookmarks is huge.
Had Instinct export our conversation so Muse was able to just carry on from it.













