OpenAI Compatible API Implementation Variance
Lots of language model providers implement the OpenAI API spec. These look similar in shape but often behave differently in subtle ways. Anthropic's prefill sequences are one such example.
Today I Learned
Using `llm` to handle large input context
Today, I ran into an issue where I wanted to use repomix to pack a large codebase into a single file to pass to an LLM, but I couldn't paste the output into any of the UIs I typically use. The React apps all became sluggish as I waited for ~500,000 tokens to paste.
Git Worktree
These days I use agents that write code often. When I am trying to build a new feature, I first write a markdown spec, then point the agent at it and send it on its way.
Adding an llms.txt file to Hugo
Today, I set out to add an llms.txt to this site. I've made a few similar additions in the past with raw post markdown files and a search index. Every time I try and change something with outputFormats in Hugo, I forget one of the steps, so in writing this up, finally I'll have it for next time.
Claude Code
Today, Anthropic entered the LLM code tools party with Claude Code.
Cursor Triple Backticks Stop Sequence
An LLM stop sequence is a sequence of tokens that tells the LLM to stop generating text. I previously wrote about stop sequences and prefilling responses with Claude.
Astro Code Toggle Component
I built an Astro component called CodeToggle.astro for my experimental site. The idea was to create a simple wrapper around a React (or other interactive component) in an MDX file so that the source of that rendered component could be nicely displayed as a highlighted code block on the click of a...
Running Deepseek Janus Pro 7B on a Macbook
Deepseek is getting a lot of attention with the releases of V3 and recently R1. Yesterday, they also released "Pro 7B" version of Janus, a "Unified Multimodal" model that can generate images from text and text from images. Most models I've experimented with can only do one of the two.
`llm` upgrade pip
The llm package uses a plugin architecture to support numerous different language model API providers and frameworks. Per the documentation, these plugins are installed using a version of pip, the popular Python package manager Use the llm install command (a thin wrapper around pip install) to...
Claude Citations
Today, Anthropic released Citations for Claude.