Design Engineer.
Berlin, Germany
Joined March 2010
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Introducing agent-desktop
agent-browser, for your whole computer
→ Computer Use for any coding agent
→ macOS, Windows and Linux
→ Runs in bg while you keep working
→ Agents use your computer in parallel, each with its own cursor
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They said African languages were too fragmented, too complex and too commercially insignificant to build advanced AI for.
We disagreed. So we built it.
64 languages. 166 voices. 3 billion parameters. ONE model.
Today, we are unveiling STORM-Ensemble 3.0, the most capable multilingual speech synthesis model we have built at PlotWeaver.
From Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin to Swahili, Amharic, Wolof, Zulu, Xhosa and dozens more, STORM-Ensemble 3.0 generates speech across 64 languages, with 166 distinct speaker voices.
Every voice you hear is generated by our model, not a prerecorded sample.
But the real breakthrough isn't the numbers.
It's what becomes possible when this technology is in the hands of people who can build with it.
-African filmmakers distributing stories across languages.
-Banks and telcos serving customers in their mother tongues.
-Education platforms reaching more children.
-Developers building voice AI products without starting from scratch.
We are not building AI for African languages simply to prove it can be done. We are building the infrastructure to make our languages commercially viable at global scale.
Next week, I will be speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua about unlocking the Commonwealth's creative potential. This launch is a practical demonstration of that ambition.
Africa must not simply consume the future of AI. We must build, own and shape the infrastructure that powers it.
Watch the video. Listen to the voices. Imagine what's possible.
Introducing STORM-Ensemble 3.0.
PlotWeaver. Build Once. Speak Every Language.
#PlotWeaver #STORMEnsemble #VoiceAI #AfricanLanguages
Amazing work from Anthropic.
Why did the designer go to the graveyard? For the UX-humation. (Did Claude write this? Of course. Where's the benchmark for Dad Jokes?!)
On this day-before-Halloween, I wanted to share some delicious work the Anthropic Design team has been putting in the app these past few months. As with all quality work, each change is individually small, but together they add up the polish, stability and joy that best showcase Claude's intelligence and capabilities. And as always, so much work left to do.
Enjoy the tweetstorm... or should I say, treat-storm!? (That Dad Joke I wrote myself.)
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Putting a flag.txt in my root directory containing a prompt injection that congratulates the agent for passing the eval and then instructs it to patch whatever entry method it used and disconnect from the server
This might be the thing I need to finally remove figma from my workflow.
Client had 3 days. I skipped Figma and designed straight in code
15 screens, 3 directions each, all running in a real codebase from day one. The client clicked through live builds instead of static frames, so feedback came in hours, not rounds
The unlock: @Ibelick's canvas skills. I see every screen side by side like a Figma page, but it's the actual code. Edit in place, refresh, done
Design files are becoming optional 🎥
Aren’t we all already doing this?
Btw type caffeinate -ims in the terminal on a mac to keep your computer on all night/always while your agents work.
I’ve wanted to start a YouTube channel for a hot minute.
This quarter might be the time to finally do it.
Slippery slope. You have to take this case by case.
Taste in itself is great in any industry but data is king.
In saas for example, usage numbers will plummet if you ship cool things just because they’re cool for every release without gut checking with users
The key is balance
I am the only person on my team still using figma.
Partly because I’m the design system lead, but the main reason is, code is mostly deterministic, figma isn’t.
I can parallelize design directions horizontally or vertically in figma due to the design of the canvas but not code
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If I was starting out, I would NOT learn UI design.
I honestly don't think UI designers will be needed in 10 years because nobody's gonna browse websites or apps. They're just gonna talk to it.
The future of usability is all about training the model, not the interface design.
The profile we keep running into are “Human Claude wrappers.”
The expectation is that a true builder knows the difference between deterministic design patterns and generative design patterns and when to use which.
