Readit NewsI'm not versed enough in history of art to fully appreciate this painting and how it became so popular, could someone point me to some resources to improve my culture on the matter?
Thanks in advance for any reply
I very recently created an app that helps people learn art history.
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/for-arts-sake/id6744744230
It’s a first version, and there’s a lot more content and features to come, but it’s actually already taught me so much making it!
archiepeach commented on Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? theparisreview.org/blog/2... · Posted by u/lermontov
Humble plug for my poetry app. When I was getting into poetry I was reading a lot of them online but found the majority of sites to have awful designs with garish ads that completely detracted from the poem. So I wrote a scraper which downloaded 40,000 poems that were in the public domain and rendered them in an iOS app with a beautiful design. Crafting individual profiles for all of the poets was painstaking and arduous, but the users seem to really enjoy the app so far. I do already have some AI analysis for arcane poems (but I don’t explicitly mention that it’s AI as I think apps should never say that - it doesn’t interest users, only investors).
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/the-poetry-corner/id1602552624
archiepeach commented on Operator research preview openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
I don't know why, but the approach where "agents" accomplish things by using a mouse and keyboard and looking at pixels always seemed off to me.
I understand that in theory it's more flexible, but I always imagined some sort of standard, where apps and services can expose a set of pre-approved actions on the user's behalf. And the user can add/revoke privileges from agents at any point. Kind of like OAuth scopes.
Imagine having "app stores" where you "install" apps like Gmail or Uber or whatever on your agent of choice, define the privileges you wish the agent to have on those apps, and bam, it now has new capabilities. No browser clicks needed. You can configure it at any time. You can audit when it took action on your behalf. You can see exactly how app devs instructed the agent to use it (hell, you can even customize it). And, it's probably much faster, cheaper, and less brittle (since it doesn't need to understand any pixels).
Seems like better UX to me. But probably more difficult to get app developers on board.
You could make a similar argument for self-driving cars. We would have got there quicker if the roads were built from the ground up for automation. You can try to get the world on board to change how they do roads. Or make the computers adapt to any kind of road.
archiepeach commented on Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) poets.org/poem/stopping-w... · Posted by u/keepamovin
Humble plug for the poetry app I created for iOS. The Poetry Corner is written in React Native, and contains over 40,000 public-domain poems, and surfaces the classics in a beautiful and distraction free design!
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/the-poetry-corner/id1602552624
> potential applications
> if you ...
> for example ...
Yes there seems to be lots of potential. Yes we can brainstorm things that should work. Yes there is a lot of examples of incredible things in isolation. But it's a little bit like those youtube videos showing amazing basketball shots in 1 try, when in reality lots of failed attempts happened beforehand. Except our users experience the failed attempts (LLM replies that are wrong, even when backed by RAG) and it's incredibly hard to hide those from them.
Show me the things you / your team has actually built that has decent retention and metrics concretely proving efficiency improvements.
LLMs are so hit and miss from query to query that if your users don't have a sixth sense for a miss vs a hit, there may not be any efficiency improvement. It's a really hard problem with LLM based tools.
There is so much hype right now and people showing cherry picked examples.
To be fair in the human-based teams I've worked with in startups I couldn't show you products with decent retention.
archiepeach commented on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI twitter.com/miramurati/st... · Posted by u/brianjking
When multiple senior people resign in protest, it's indicative that they're not happy with someone among their own ranks who they vehemently disagree with. John Schulman and Greg left in the same week. Greg, opting to choose to take a sabbatical, may have chosen that over full-on resigning which would align with how he acted during the board-ousting - standing by Sam till the end.
If multiple key people were drastically unhappy with her, it would have shaken confidence in herself and everyone working with her. What else to do but let her go?
The poetry one is react native. Art and philosophy ones are swift/kotlin. I wanted to see if you could use LLMs to effectively create a cross-platform app. The idea behind react native was that you write it once in an approachable language, then the framework compiles to native app code. In 2025, the approachable language you code in is English, and the LLM now generates native app code.
It was generally a success and I feel less of a need of the development overhead of react native these days.
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/for-arts-sake/id6744744230
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/daily-philosophy/id6472272901
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/the-poetry-corner/id1602552624