This really blew my mind back then in the ancient times of 2024-ish. I remember the idea of agents just reached me and I started reading various "here I built an agent that does this" articles, and I was really frustrated at not understanding how the hell LLM "knows" how to call a tool, it's a program, but LLMs just produce text! Yes I see you are telling LLM about tools, but what's next? And then when I finally understood that there's no next, no need to do anything other than explaining — it felt pretty magical, not gonna lie.

Just wanted to let you know that asking those questions as if there can be any variation in my answers really shows you are judging russians from the outside. The Crimea question has been akin to a meme for a decade at this point. I'm obviously not saying "everyone" is thinking one way or another, because there's no "everyone", and there's also no "almost everyone". There are huge chunks of the population that are very much on the opposite ends of the spectrum, and judging one chunk by opinions and action of another one is highly disingenuous, imo.

> we have opened an office to easier collaborate with sanctioned individuals

As a Russian living in Belgrade I love how you see "being open to people from Russia" as a negative, and how you just instantly equate being russian with being under sanctions.

I, and everyone I know of, left russia not because they're a weasel trying to help putin move his money in and out of Europe, I moved because I was afraid I'd be forced to go kill and be killed, and because I just didn't want to take part in any of it. And I chose Serbia because it's one of the rare few options that would welcome me without too much restrictions and that's not prohibitively expensive for me to live.

I always thought this is a very weird flow, it adds hoops yet accomplishes nothing because the hoops are all trivial and the same for every app.

The GitHub page has a list with 5 items of what was the focus, this is the first (and I think the most easily noticeable) area

Also I should add Gemini (the app) is able to access YT transcripts most of the time, so sometimes I'd just paste the link and ask for a tldr. One of the few reasons to go for Gemini app, not google ai studio.

That said, Technology Connections is worth watching just because videos are very pleasant, it's probably my favorite YT subscription right now.

So, it's more like "I ran a text predicting machine on a Raspberry Pi 5 and explicitly instructed it produce text cosplaying a sentient AI", which makes it a lot less interesting. And actually just running an LLM in a loop with basically empty prompts also produces "sci-fi" results, so not sure why this approach was chosen.