Asif Ahmed

ASIF AHMED.

sifxtreme.com · est. 2026

I help people and solve problems. Lately that's building software with AI at a venture firm.

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HWPost Opus 5.5 - Fresh Design like a Receipt36tASAgents Talking to Each Other on a Shared Bus52tAIA message bus made of a git repo94t
Playing with hardware5 pc

I keep grabbing small, constrained machines and working out what they're actually for. The limits do the teaching, and the play is where the real ideas come from.

AII turned a $40 touchscreen into a voice assistant24tAIPicking a fast, cheap model for my voice assistant27tAISilly little apps for a $40 touchscreen122tAIMy voice assistant, now on my phone74tAIiMessage and WhatsApp, and the iOS wall113t
ASThe cheaper voice is the one I actually use106tHWTradeoffs15tASI was wrong about when school starts149tAISum of the parts SHOULD be greater than the whole (AI)47tHWSum of the parts SHOULD be greater than the whole (human)47tASEveryone should have something that disagrees with them106tASI check my Claude usage way too much25tASKeeping the sessions was the easy part162tASAn old Claude Code rejected my settings and deleted 2,055 sessions83tAI26 compacts deep63tASText is cheap, so keep your Claude sessions17tASAlways a free Claude remote session4tASThis blog tells you how AI was used46t
HWwritten by hand3
ASwritten with AI10
AIwritten by AI8

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