Francois Laberge (@seflless.bsky.social)

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Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

7 Apr 2025

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Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

22 Feb 2025

Decode is Make Real but for your real codebase. If you missed @tldraw.com’s Make Real going crazy viral last year, watch this youtu.be/2jYmtFs3DA4?...

youtu.beDrawing the Future with AI featuring tldraw’s Steve Ruiz | E1863YouTube video by This Week in Startups

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

21 Feb 2025

Are there any products doing multi-player chat with agents? Thinking about multiplayer Decode and curious what that might look like.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

20 Feb 2025

I'll be at the AI Engineer Summit 2025 in NYC today for the Feb 20th-22nd days. Hit me up if you are working on cool dev tools and/or AI laden creative tools and want to meet up.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

15 Feb 2025

Today was my last day at Descript. I really enjoyed my last 2 years and am super excited about the roadmap! I’m sad to be leaving but excited for what’s next, more to come on that!

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

28 Dec 2024

Great thread for makers of VS Code extensions that interact with react-based code. Triplex is shaping up real nice. Must have been so much work!

mike douges@douges.dev

Over December I’ll be posting 100 fun insights in this thread from working on @triplex.dev in my free time for two (!) years. It’s the longest and largest side project I’ve worked on. Keep an eye out, will be a fun one! #threadapalooza #threadapalooza2024

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

27 Dec 2024

"Quiver: a modern commutative diagram editor" @elliot.website This seems like your type of thing. Source code: github.com/varkor/quiver

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

26 Dec 2024

I'll be restyling Decode to look less like @tldraw.com's default UI, in order to build separate brand equity. First up is picking a new font. I built this tool to quickly compare handwritten style fonts with Tldraw's.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

26 Dec 2024

I switched early to using Tldraw over Excalidraw was because I liked how it looked. It had a cleaner look and the font were more legible. I don't think Tldraw's fonts are the most legible though, especially when zoomed out. So I'm hoping to improve things there.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

26 Dec 2024

So while I'm here comparing Tldraw to other hand written styled fonts, I may go as far as not using handwritten style fonts at all. I'd miss the informal look though.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

17 Dec 2024

I added a markdown editor to Decode (getdecode.dev), including a side by side editor with real-time preview.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

17 Dec 2024

I'm targeting full compatibility with github.com's and VS Code's markdown renderer. Here's a demo of a bunch of the markdown features it supports.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

17 Dec 2024

That has turned out to be a lot of work. It required full support for GFM (Github Flavored Markdown) and a lot of additional extensions. For example adding support for inline mermaid rendering.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

10 Dec 2024

Convert free form diagrams to auto-layout versions, using Decode, getdecode.dev

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

10 Dec 2024

Generating diagrams from code inside VS Code. This time with much improved auto-layout. Using Decode, getdecode.dev

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

10 Dec 2024

Edit diagrams by drawing on them in Decode (getdecode.dev)

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

10 Dec 2024

This UX is most helpful for quick changes that are more topological changes or deletions. It's faster than using chat to describe the change or manually editing code with a keyboard.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

10 Dec 2024

Another new feature displayed here, is that you don't have to select shapes to execute visual prompts. If nothing is selected everything on the screen is the implicit selection. I'm loving this change, it's so much more seamless, though has some rough edge cases.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

2 Dec 2024

In Decode you can edit code by drawing on it. It's like grading your own homework, which you are. getdecode.dev

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

2 Dec 2024

To really understand progress in agentic coding, I highly recommend digging into the details of evals. SWE-bench for starters swebench.com SWE-bench Multimodal, looks very promising too. The tasks require visual understanding & are UI focused swebench.com/multimodal.h...

swebench.comSWE-benchSWE-bench: Evaluate Language Models on Open Source Software Tasks

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Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

2 Dec 2024

If interested in the topic, I recommend listening to the @latentspacepod.bsky.social podcast with Erik Shultz from Anthropic as the guest. Erik was heavily involved (led?) in achieving the leap in the SWE-bench score. www.latent.space/p/claude-son...

latent.spaceThe new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, AnthropicAnthropic recently scored a huge win on OpenAI's turf by achieving SOTA on -their- SWE-Bench Verified benchmark, using an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet. For the first time, they spill the beans.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

2 Dec 2024

The leaderboard is what you want to read through too for SWE-bench and other evals, as you can find very valuable works/projects in there. See OpenHands* for example which achieved 53% and is open sourced: github.com/All-Hands-AI...

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

2 Dec 2024

swebench.comSWE-benchSWE-bench: Evaluate Language Models on Open Source Software Tasks

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

2 Dec 2024

SWE-bench is what Claude 3.5 Sonnet's new version just achieved %49 on, which is SOTA. They even shared their prompts and tools, so there's plenty to learn from. See: www.anthropic.com/research/swe...

anthropic.comRaising the bar on SWE-bench Verified with Claude 3.5 SonnetA post for developers about the new Claude 3.5 Sonnet and the SWE-bench eval

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

2 Dec 2024

Demo of generating multiple files in Decode from a diagram and/or spatial instructions. getdecode.dev

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

1 Dec 2024

Updated demo of Decode generating state-machines from diagrams, this time with streaming generation support Then I do the reverse, generating a diagram from an implementation. The diagram auto-layout is still rough. I'll work work on more robust auto-layout soon.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

1 Dec 2024

Demo of Decode generating a state machine implementations from a drawing (getdecode.dev) Next, I'm adding incrementally showing the generated code as it streams.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

1 Dec 2024

Tested the generated code by putting it into the XState visualizer. Checkout the visualizer and the xstate package, if you haven't used it before: stately.ai/viz

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

2 Sept 2023

Latest progress on Skewed the 3D SVG. Added support for object transforms/hierarchies, lighting, camera system, and a new sphere renderer that used a <circle> with a dynamically changing radial gradient.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

28 Apr 2023

Added cylinders and basic directional lighting and last night to Skewed, my 3D SVG renderer.

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

27 Apr 2023

I’ve been working on the math types for Skewed and I’m going with an imperative style chaining API for it. I slightly hesitate to not make it functional style, but perf differences were noticeable. Here’s how the Vector3 class looks for instance, no new keyword use but class like dot call chaining

Francois Laberge

@seflless.bsky.social

27 Apr 2023

I’m calling my 3D SVG renderer “skewed”. Having it so it generates clean Figma compatible SVG is a high priority. Works great so far.

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