Rough Magic Podcast: LLM demos

Marc Hatton

🎙️ ~20 min demo-first takes on LLMs reshaping tech work. www.roughmagic.me

Episodes

  1. The canvas: Where humans and AI agents do high bandwidth collaboration

    22 MAR

    The canvas: Where humans and AI agents do high bandwidth collaboration

    Steve Ruiz built TLDraw as an infinite canvas SDK and discovered that the spatial nature of a 2D surface solves coordination problems that human and LLMs struggle with elsewhere: orchestrating multiple agents, grounding abstract concepts visually and giving users a way to annotate and iterate on AI output. Engineering work is shifting from writing code to system architecture, and the canvas is where high bandwidth work happens magically. In this episode Steve demos Make Real ("the world's first vibe coding tool"), the Agent Starter Kit, and Fairies -- a new experiment that puts multiple agents directly on the canvas. He also previews future directions: foveation, zones and annotation for images and video. TLDraw is hiring: https://tldraw.dev/careers ## Timestamps 00:00 Teaser: Multi-agent canvas 00:51 Intro: Steve Ruiz 03:37 Intro: TLDraw 06:33 The canvas as a high-bandwidth collaboration surface 11:54 Demo: A history of TLDraw 16:04 Demo: Make Real (the world's first vibe coding tool, Nov 2023) 23:30 Demo: The Agent Starter Kit 26:03 Demo: Fairies — multi-agent canvas orchestration 33:23 The dark code factory and human intervention 36:15 Future: Annotation as a primitive (images, video) 37:17 Future: Spatial harness for agents 39:24 Future: Responsive zones ("haunted places") 43:21 Q&A: Building philosophy 45:49 Wrap: TLDraw is hiring ## Follow / Get In Touch Steve Ruiz: https://x.com/steveruizok | https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-ruiz-61a150239/ Marc (host): https://x.com/marchattonhere | https://www.linkedin.com/in/marchatton/ ## Links TLDraw: https://tldraw.com TLDraw SDK: https://tldraw.dev Make Real: https://makereal.tldraw.com TLDraw Computer: https://computer.tldraw.com TLDraw on GitHub: https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw ## Subscribe Rough Magic on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRoughMagic Rough Magic on Substack: https://www.roughmagic.me/podcast Rough Magic on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7xTd4cGGn35dlC0jUCLBZU Rough Magic on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rough-magic-podcast-exploring-llms/id1880241622 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.roughmagic.me

    47 min
  2. 14 MAR

    Why your AI needs a home: The personal cloud revolution with Ben Guo (Zo Computer)

    Overview Ben Guo explains the next computer is a personal cloud: software-company-grade infrastructure for personal computing, not just for businesses. In this episode he demos Zo live and shows what that looks like when files, automations, memory, hosting and model access live in one persistent system you own. Personal computing is starting to feel like the early PC movement again, and the early days of the internet and P2P file sharing/hosting. Watch on YouTube * 00:00 Ben Guo, Zo and why personal computing is back * 04:03 The personal cloud thesis * 06:27 Zo demo starts: files, automations and hosting * 09:19 Data imports as memory * 12:31 Persistent, elastic compute * 14:24 AI provider API keys and integrations * 16:11 Q&A: privacy and ownership * 17:47 Q&A: product taste and velocity coding Zo is hiring cracked engineers https://www.zo.computer/careers Follow / get in touch * Ben Guo (co-founder): https://x.com/0thernet or https://www.linkedin.com/in/0thernet/ * Rob Cheung (co-founder): https://x.com/perceptnet * Marc (host): https://x.com/marchattonhere or https://www.linkedin.com/in/marchatton/ Products/tools mentioned * Zo Computer: https://www.zo.computer/ * Claude Code * OpenClaw: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw * 23andMe: https://www.23andme.com/ * ClinVar: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/ Companies mentioned * Venmo: https://venmo.com/ * Substack: https://substack.com/ * AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/ * Vercel: https://vercel.com/ * Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/ * Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.roughmagic.me

    21 min

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