
Alvaro Cintas
@dr_cintas • 132,341 subscribers
Educating about AI, Cybersecurity and Technology | Professor | PhD in Computer Science & Engineering
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Apple just announced its new Visual Intelligence for iPhone 16. It looks insane 🤯
Alvaro Cintas11,422,742 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

I went looking for an AI voice tool that holds up on long audio. Ended up with a clone of my own voice reading a full tutorial script. Slight problem: it sounds more real than I do! Most tools I tried sounded great for the first few seconds, then the tone drifted the longer they talked. Cartesia held up. It needed 10 seconds of my voice for the clone, and it can take up to 60 to keep my accent closer. Recorded the whole process so you can try it too.
Alvaro Cintas240,046 görüntüleme • 25 gün önce

This is one of the best consumer AI apps I've seen. Most AI apps remain static chat wrappers: text input ➔ spinner ➔ text output. But real learning is a dynamic, stateful "Interaction Flow" with intent, pacing, and rhythm. Building an AI Agent that keeps users in a live learning loop requires moving from a reactive "replier" to an active "Interaction Conductor." Orchestrating voice, canvas, and memory in real time is an entirely different engineering challenge: 1. Pacing over wall-of-text output: Instead of dumping everything at once, the system controls pacing, i.e., knowing when to speak, render UI cards, or pause for user input like a seasoned coach. 2. Interactive, live-generated workspace: The AI’s voice, canvas elements, and visual cards evolve in millisecond-aligned sync as you speak, creating a live, immersive session. 3. Full-duplex audio & interaction checkpoint recovery: Uses continuous streaming and syntactic completion so you can think without being cut off. More importantly, when you break away to ask side questions, the entire multimodal flow seamlessly resumes from your exact checkpoint in the core session. 4. Stateful memory graph: Friction points and milestones compile into persistent state across sessions to drive targeted reinforcement instead of starting from scratch. Moving from content-driven generation to interaction-driven orchestration - building stateful, multimodal partners with agency and pacing - is where interface design is heading.
Alvaro Cintas43,205 görüntüleme • 5 gün önce

This workflow will save you thousands with Claude. Run Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5, and Fable 5.1 together, and stop spending Opus tokens on work that doesn't need Opus. The entire idea in one line: Opus plans, Sonnet edits, Haiku reads, Fable reviews at decision points. Roles, broken down: - Opus 5.5, high effort, owns the plan and reviews the final code - Sonnet 5.5, medium effort, is the worker: edits files, runs tests - Haiku 5.5, low effort, splits into explorer (searches and reads the codebase) and researcher (pulls docs). it's the first Haiku with an effort setting - Fable 5.1, set with /advisor fable. Opus calls it at decision points, and it gets the full transcript each time Three moments Opus tends to call it: → before committing to a plan: is this the right approach? → the same error shows up again: is this going nowhere? → before marking the task done: did something get skipped? Why Haiku only reads: Anthropic's launch post says Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 are still the better choice for complex agentic coding (Terminal-Bench 4.0: 39.2% for Haiku 5.5, 70.6% for Sonnet 5.5) and that Haiku 5.5 fits narrowly scoped subagent work. so it gets the lookups, not the edits. Anyone still running one model for everything is paying $4 per million input tokens to check whether a file exists. Haiku 5.5 does it for $0.10. Drop this into Claude Code 👇 "Rebuild my Claude Code setup around this structure: Confirm Claude Code is v2.1.293 or later, so the haiku alias resolves to Haiku 5.5. If it isn't, stop and tell me to run claude update. Look through ~/.claude/agents and .claude/agents for subagents already covering explorer, worker, and researcher. Only create new ones for roles that are missing. Set model: haiku, effort: low on explorer and researcher, with no Edit or Write tools. Set model: sonnet, effort: medium on worker. If an existing subagent is locked to a different model, leave it as is and just list it. Name the explorer subagent Explore so it overrides the built-in one, which otherwise runs on my main model. In ~/.claude/settings.json, set advisorModel to fable, and set effortLevel to high for claude-opus-5-5 under modelSettings. A top-level effortLevel in user settings doesn't apply to Opus 5.5. Check for anything disabling the advisor: CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ADVISOR_TOOL, DISABLE_TELEMETRY, or anything blocking feature-flag fetches. Also check CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL, which overrides subagent effort settings, and CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL_FORCE, which makes Claude Code ignore subagent model fields. Report what you find. Don't change any of it yet. Add one line to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md: consult the advisor before a big plan, when the same error shows up twice, and before marking a long task done. Show every change as a diff first. Wait for my go-ahead before touching anything."
Alvaro Cintas56,940 görüntüleme • 13 gün önce

Google Genie 3 just got its biggest open-source rival 🤯 LingBot-World is an open-source world model that generates playable environments in real-time. → Built on Alibaba’s Wan2.2 → 10 minutes of stable generation → 16fps real-time interaction 100% Open Source.
Alvaro Cintas1,060,413 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce

Do these 4 steps to stop Fable 5.1 from wiping out your weekly credits: 1. Set /effort to low 2. Run /claude-api cost-optimize to find the biggest wastes 3. Run /claude-api prompt-audit to clear old junk 4. Run /claude-api migrate this project to claude-fable-5-1 to update old model ids You won’t have to worry about wasting tokens anymore.
Alvaro Cintas192,453 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

The #1 problem with local AI is now solved. There’s a free tool called that checks your hardware and tells you which models will actually run well before you download anything. So instead of guessing and hitting out-of-memory errors…it grades every model against your machine. What it does (right in your browser, no install): → detects your setup (RAM / CPU / GPU / VRAM) → scores each model for fit, speed, and context length → grades every quantization level (Q4_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0, etc.) → labels what runs great vs okay vs too heavy It covers most of the open-weight stack, Llama, Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek, Phi and more, pulling requirements from llama.cpp, Ollama, and LM Studio. And it’s fully opensource
Alvaro Cintas196,458 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

Claude Cowork complete crash course from zero to expert in 12 minutes. Installation, automations, connectors, plugins..all of it: 00:00 Intro 01:00 Installation & setup 02:08 Your first task 03:01 Global instructions (most skip this) 04:00 What Cowork can actually access 05:15 Skills feature 06:08 Connectors explained 07:04 Real workflow (Drive + Gmail) 07:46 Claude in Chrome 08:43 Scheduled tasks 09:52 Plugins (why $285B was wiped out) 11:41 Big picture
Alvaro Cintas682,969 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

Loving the new ChatGPT Mac app. I can now turn a drawing into a working app in less than a minute!
Alvaro Cintas2,787,700 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

Now everyone can make 60-minute films from ONE prompt 🤯 Higgsfield Supercomputer looks insane. A cloud-native AI agent that unifies every model, tool, and creative workflow into one system. > Type one prompt - specify your length and type (cartoon or cinematic) > Supercomputer picks the workflow > It deploys a swarm of agents > Every sub-task routes across the right frontier LLM (Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Pro) and the right video model (Seedance, Veo, Kling) > A finished cartoon or movie lands A full film studio running inside one agent. Wild.
Alvaro Cintas208,506 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

Your entire media library, searchable by memory instead of filename, running right on your own machine. It’s a local-first AI file agent called MUZIM. Instead of managing folders, you work with what's actually inside your photos, videos, and documents. Here's how it comes together in a real workflow: You get back from a two-week trip with 2,000 photos and clips on your camera. You point MUZIM at the folder, and it builds Collections on its own, by place, by people, by day. Nothing gets moved from where it already lives. A week later you want "the sunset shot where everyone's laughing." You don't remember the filename. So you just describe it. Vibe Search understands what's inside your media and takes you straight to that moment, even the exact second inside a video. Once the local model is downloaded, this part runs fully offline, connected or not. Then you turn it into something. Connect your own Claude or GPT key, and the online AI Agent pulls the best shots from that trip and drafts a highlight video, an X thread, or a recap. Through MCP, compatible tools work with authorized context without re-uploading gigabytes of raw video - saving massive input tokens while keeping raw files strictly local. The whole idea: search and organization run locally, on your device the AI workflows run when you want them, on your own key your raw files never leave your machine Cold storage becomes a private workspace you actually control.
Alvaro Cintas80,668 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce