Matt Sayar

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Oh hey, it's me, the guy who owns this site. But who even is Matt Sayar? I'm still trying to figure that out. Here's some more places I'm at around the web.

Matt Sayar

NOW is personalized software a thing?

Not that long ago, I tried to use Claude to customize Publii, the app I use to make this website. It didn't do so well. Literally the next day, Anthropic announced the Claude 4 family, and now Claude Sonnet 4.5 is out. Anthropic's unbiased opinion…

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Matt Sayar

LLMs aren't just for "sissies"

“... even if [FORTRAN] did work, no respectable programmer would use it -- it was only for sissies!” Richard Hamming, on programming before the invention of one of the first mid-level programming languages History is repeating itself. So many words have been spilled about LLMs…

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