@jessicahullman.bsky.social in the comments: "I’ve had similar experiences – as soon as model fitting runs into a problem, coding agents start devising their own idiosyncratic solutions" oh no. this plus [relentless proactivity](simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/...) is a nightmare
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tj mahr 🤘
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data scientist studying how kids learn to speak, dad, jump roper, bayesian, tjmahr.com, Madison, WI
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Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive simonwillison.net
Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 arxiv.org
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Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 arxiv.org
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Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger: Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18466
tj mahr 🤘 reposted
Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger: Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18466
tj mahr 🤘 reposted
Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger: Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18466
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Recent commentary
feeling great about AI with my job at the “counting letters in words” factory
i had the llm extract part of an old C++ windows program (circa 2005) into a CLI app and then i told it to memoize some of the work (it does grapheme-to-phoneme conversion) and got a 5x performance boost
MS Teams is missing the last six months of messages in each of my chats. It's weird how AI is revolutionizing programming and yet Microsoft stuff has never seemed so janky.
yes I worked with so-and-so and well they just did everything with AI
jumping through a paper about Navajo English and it used the phrase "AI children". it took me a second. (AI: American Indian).
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