The orchestrator (expensive model) only owns task breakdown and review; mechanical work goes to a cheap fast model. One real closed loop, three real pitfalls, and what can and can’t be delegated.
Split ’thinking it through’ from ‘building it’, bridged by a spec that pins down measured facts. This is that spec and what the execution produced.
Subtitles and comics end once translated; intensive reading doesn’t — it needs its own carrier. That’s what makes the third local pipeline different.
Detect, OCR, translate, inpaint, render — once the pipeline runs, the hard part is making people want to use it.
Batch subtitle generation, fully local. Four pitfalls you only hit once you actually run it.
A reusable D2R modding knowledge base for developers and AI assistants, focusing on China server quirks, loot coloring, UI panels, and crash prevention.
A step-by-step guide to running multiple Diablo II: Resurrected accounts on one PC with one-click switching and no repeated logins.
Lately, I’ve been cleaning up my own download tools, and one recurring need is YouTube downloading. While there are plenty of tools out there, YouTube’s increasing restrictions on n-sig have caused many open-source projects to fail when fetching high-quality audio tracks. After writing code for many years, I care most about whether a tool is maintainable when it fails. I cleaned up the old setup with three goals: it should run, expose useful logs, and make failures easier to locate. ...
Following our previous discussion on the RoleEngine Core, it’s time to bridge the gap between a raw CLI “brain” and a real-world communication platform: WeChat. In VisAgent, we don’t believe in heavy, bloated frameworks. Instead, we use a CLI-Native Bridge pattern. This post explores how we connected the “Clawbot” (our WeChat interface) to a hand-rolled Gemini CLI kernel. The Request Flow: From Chat to CLI The architecture is a chain of specialized tools, each doing one thing well. Here’s how a message travels from your phone to the AI: ...
[!NOTE] The Origin: To help my son enter a deep state of focus during study sessions, I “hand-rolled” a lightweight “Concentration Tool” using pure HTML. No heavy frameworks, just three raw, direct modules. In this post, I’ll share the design logic behind this tool. You can experience it directly by clicking Concentration Tool in the navigation bar. 1. Why “Hand-roll”? There are countless focus apps out there, but they often: ...