Preslav Rachev
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AI
2026
The bottleneck is the supervision
·1 min
The [AI] models are already powerful enough to produce publishable results under competent supervision.
Who Is the Assistant?
·1 min
The way a smart assistant works is, it processes information ahead of you, trims it down, and presents you with a couple of options to decide on.
2025
Display your Claude Code Token Usage on Your Mac's Toolbar
·5 mins
A simple Python script and xbar setup to monitor Claude Code token usage directly in your macOS toolbar.
Hitting the Brakes on Claude Code
·3 mins
Prevent Claude Code from burning tokens aimlessly. Slow things down with a simple shell trick.
2024
The Human in the Loop
·2 mins
Our desire for optimization and productivity drives us to abdicate effort and skill in exchange for rapidity
The Perfect Knowledge Assistant That Does Not Exist
·5 mins
But it totally could, if one manages to put these few points together.
2023
Artificial text is a statistical mashup of human quotes.
·1 min
Artificial text is a statistical mashup of human quotes. When we quote AI, we quote quotes.
I Believe in Machine Learning. I Don’t Believe In AI
·7 mins
Machine learning rocks, but it’s far from intelligence. It’s advanced stats on steroids. Know its limits, roll with smaller models, and be the boss of your decisions.
2022
First Encounter (A Free Wallpaper)
·1 min
First Encounter is a wallpaper I created in collaboration with Stable Diffusion’s AI model. When working with generational AI, it is hard to say who should be credited for the creation of the work. Was it me who came up with the idea and thought of an appropriate prompt, or was it the model that did all the hard computational work?
Not all algorithms are evil
·1 min
The algorithms that are currently being used by the social media platforms that dominate our attention are designed to keep us engaged with content for as long as possible. But that’s not all they can do.