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There’s just something about self-hosting that hits different. I’m a fierce pragmatist, and I never came across anything sufficiently convincing enough for me to see the value in doing it. But then along came Open WebUI.
[... 336 words]The animal mix-up is not ideal, but it’s not a major hurdle to usability. I didn’t seriously entertain the possibility that a deer had wandered into the house, and it’s a little funny the way the daily report continues to express amazement that wildlife is invading. It’s a pretty harmless screw-up.
“Overall identification accuracy depends on several factors, including the visual details available in the camera clip for Gemini to process,” explains a Google spokesperson. “As a large language model, Gemini can sometimes make inferential mistakes, which leads to these misidentifications, such as confusing your dog with a cat or deer.”
Google also says that you can tune the AI by correcting it when it screws up. This works sometimes, but the system still doesn’t truly understand anything—that’s beyond the capabilities of a generative AI model. After telling Gemini that it’s seeing dogs rather than deer, it sees wildlife less often. However, it doesn’t seem to trust me all the time, causing it to report the appearance of a deer that is “probably” just a dog.
— Ryan Whitwam, “Unexpectedly, a deer briefly entered the family room”: Living with Gemini Home
3D Printable Flutes (via) I love what this guy's doing.
He's a purveyor of 3D-printed flutes, both the flutes themselves but also the 3D printing files so you can make them yourself. Cool enough.
But what really caught my attention was that he figured out how to vibe code his own tuning software. So he prints a flute, then runs the software while he plays the flute and gets immediate feedback on how well it's tuned. He then uses that data to modify the design and just keeps iterating.
I haven't spoken to the guy, but based on some of his reels, I'm assuming he never could have done this without AI-assisted development.
Now I'm off to print some flutes.