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Ben Tucker
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Striving to be one of the *good* tech guys. Based in Chicago. Opinions my own.
Here's what the SVG looks like on a white background.
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Ha! This just reminded me of my experiment from March after OpenAI launched their new image generation model of having ChatGPT generate an image, then trace it to SVG. I just tried this again & it's still pretty similar: chatgpt.com/share/69161f...
Took two prompts still.
bsky.app/profile/btuc...
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I think you could also do that using claude itself. You don’t necessarily need another LLM.
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Certainly possible, but I’m not sure the value would be high. Another approach is you can use Claude Code in headless mode from a Claude Code plugin/skill. This allows using Claude as the LLM from those.

What I find useful about local models is when you don’t want the content to leave the machine.
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
What sorts of use cases are you thinking about?
November 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
it turns out PyPI doesn't yet support macOS 26 wheels. I opened a PR to add this: github.com/pypi/warehou...
allow uploads of wheels targeting macOS 26 by btucker · Pull Request #19018 · pypi/warehouse
macOS 26 was released on 2025-09-15. PyPI should allow wheels targeting it.
github.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Then I wanted to make it easier to play with, so another hour with Claude Code and I had a plugin for @simonwillison.net's llm: github.com/btucker/llm-...

What's cool this is you don't have to install anything other than some python packages & you have full access to a reasonably capable LLM.
GitHub - btucker/llm-apple: LLM plugin for local apple-foundation-models available on macOS 26
LLM plugin for local apple-foundation-models available on macOS 26 - btucker/llm-apple
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Hopefully fatally funny
April 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
He was afraid people would believe in evolution.
April 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“This is yet another example of a DOGE ‘report’ misunderstanding this data at best, blatantly mischaracterizing this data at worst.”
Musk’s Latest Fraud Finding Isn’t What It Seems
His team found cases of seemingly fake people receiving unemployment benefits. But that fake data exists for a reason.
quotably.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM