Now

Building

Teaching a tiny model to read my bank's texts

Spends turns the payment SMS your bank already sends into a clear picture of where your money goes. I labelled 15,017 of my own messages, then fine-tuned a half-billion-parameter model to read them. It now beats my hand-written rules, and it runs entirely on the phone. Nothing leaves it.

to read one SMS on my Pixel 7a

1.5 s

to read one SMS on my Pixel 7a

fully right, vs 93.5% for my hand-written rules

98.5%

fully right, vs 93.5% for my hand-written rules

for the whole model, offline

352 MB

for the whole model, offline

Reading

A digest that reads the internet for me

agent-wire is my personal digest of the best writing on building with AI agents. Every six hours it checks the blogs and people I follow, scores each post against what I care about, and keeps about ten, with the best of the discussion underneath. I started it this week.

Away from the keyboard

Down the coast, up into the hills

In September I rode from Bengaluru through Mysuru and Coorg, down to the sea at Kannur, then up into the tea hills of Wayanad. Five days on the bike, at the tail end of the monsoon.

Lately shipped

• 2 NovSpendsBeta 0.4: monthly budgets with alerts, and a home-screen widget
• 1 NovPocket LedgerThe model and its playground went public
• 1 NovParsing Bank SMS with Regex, Classic ML and a Fine-Tuned 0.5B ModelA new post

Listening