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Working with gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio (of course, naming things is not Google’s strongest suit—remember Bard?) has its own ups and downs. No doubt, the liveliness, expressiveness, and language capabilities are really good, but tool (function) calling had me thinking otherwise. Reducing unintentional tool calls is especially important for our use case, as it involves taking images via voice commands. A photo taken unintentionally makes it look like the device is taking photos by itself. ...

With the recent update of claude (which is a significant improvement), like many, my programming style has also changed. Unlike the old days (it’s just been a few weeks, and it’s already old), I don’t write code “manually”, like laboriously typing def before every function — I simply ask claude to do it. Even for the smallest of tasks, I would much rather type "please commit the recent changes and push to remote" instead of git add . && git commit -m "(wip)" && git push. In other words, I have completely shifted to “Agentic Coding”. The advantages are clear: I am certainly writing more code and shipping faster, plus while claude is thinking and writing the code, I get mini breaks to scroll through Instagram slop. ...