If an agent can build the obvious demo, the obvious demo probably isn’t worth building anymore. For years, turning a research repo into something people could actually try was valuable by itself. That part is becoming automated — and that’s a good thing.
Which means the interesting work moves elsewhere: finding the weird use case, the right interaction, the unexpected model combination — or simply knowing which paper is worth anyone’s attention.
The demo used to be the product. Now it needs a point of view.
So far I've been pointing it at Markdown Minimap, an Obsidian plugin that adds a scrollable IDE-style minimap to your notes. This week I've been clearing a backlog of user-reported issues on it, with Claude often handling them end to end.
Introducing Inflect-v2, two exceptionally small, open-weight English TTS models at just 3.9M and 9.3M parameters. Both generate speech multiple times faster than real-time on CPU. Despite their size, Inflect-v2 delivers quality that is competitive with much larger lightweight TTS systems, including KittenTTS, Piper, and Supertonic-3.
CPU, CUDA, PyTorch, and ONNX are supported. Apache 2.0.