My AI hot take for the past year: stop giving it human names, animated avatars and so much personality.
Let the tool be a tool. It doesn’t need to pretend to be my friend or coworker.
(I hope AI won’t put me on its blocklist for this)
The whole point of building Tavus has been simple: talking to a machine should feel as natural as talking to a friend or coworker.
It’s hard to describe all the tiny nuances that make a conversation feel human. The little expressions. Moving around in your chair. Knowing when to speak and when to listen. The dance of it all.
Griffin is by far the closest anyone has come to a model that can capture those nuances. The first time I saw it being used, I had no idea I was watching our model rather than just a normal video call.
I’m so incredibly proud of this team and what they’ve built.
Your portfolio, one shortcut away.
Install Zerion for Raycast:
raycast.com/imqdee/zerion
I can’t miss this trend.
Sorry, no nostalgic games, cause I was restricted from playing in my childhood.
2. Prepare the foundation.
We modernised the internals while keeping the product stable for users.
As a small team of one (lol), I tried not to overload the rebuild with product decisions.
v3: SPA → SSR with TanStack Start, CSS-in-JS → Tailwind, Reakit → Ariakit.
I had so much fomo watching everyone talking about their e2e AI systems!
So I built an automation workflow that helped me clear bug and small feature backlog in just one month.
Finally managed to publish its core. Say hello to ‘autozerts’ :)
With no sidebar in the UI!
I've left task creation and final verification manual on purpose. If I physically can't create and understand all tasks that my workflow is doing, I am doing it wrong. Better plan and do less.
Yes, looks like we are a part time product managers now.
Here it is: github.com/zerts/autozerts
(Including my photo from the university on the preview... Good old times...)
