Tononoff Journey

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13 entries, newest first.

2026

  1. 13 how you could have invented muon from memory The matrix trick hiding in plain sight that made AdamW look less inevitable.
  2. 12 after the white rabbit: an Unlock! adventure from tabletop to 3D A browser adventure inspired by Unlock!, built with Codex, Blender and Three.js. How we adapted the puzzles and fixed the models that got in their way.
  3. 11 pr-review-evidence: a desktop nobody can see Agents can describe a change but never show it working. So give one its own screen and record it.
  4. 10 notify: the agent shouts down the hallway Your machine can already talk; the hard part is stopping the agent from reading file paths aloud.
  5. 09 tiny-claude-recycler: a subscription is an API key now Anthropic made a Claude subscription programmable. That turns every seat in a company into quota, which is the uncomfortable part.
  6. 08 paper-videos: a paper in, an explainer out The explainer nobody has the weeks to animate, assembled beat by beat while you watch.
  7. 07 pr-brief: a reviewer for PRs nobody wants to read It groups a huge PR into features, picks the reading order, and narrates each diff from the side.
  8. 06 ccli-prompt: cmd+k for your terminal Press Cmd+K, describe the command you've forgotten, and read what comes back before running it.
  9. 05 trainable: the data was never the bottleneck Every company has the data; almost none have the two specialist weeks that turn it into a model.
  10. 04 ralph-installer: make a loop anywhere One line of bash runs the loop; the state files around it are the actual work.

2025

  1. 03 localiza&co: what we actually ship with LLMs A Portuguese-language videocast on how Localiza uses advanced analytics and LLMs day to day.

2023

  1. 02 consulting cast: I was the guest A guest spot on UFRJ's Consulting Cast, talking about consulting, AI and LLMs.
  2. 01 llm-food-delivery: the agent loop was a switch statement Ordering dinner by voice in 2023: eleven hand-written function schemas and a loop that lived in the browser.