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Building Yapp

Notes from building a Mac you drive with your voice, on a decision model that only picks from what it is shown. What worked, what broke, and what the numbers say.

1 part so far · 4 coming · Started 29 Sept 2026

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  1. Part 1Use your Mac without touching the keyboard. Is this a better harness for LLMs?

    Yapp drives a Mac from your voice with a decision model that only picks from options it is shown. What that made easy, what it made hard, what 32 tasks on a real Mac say, and why an LLM might want the same loop.

    29 Sept 2026 · 8 min read
  2. Part 2Coming soonGiving Yapp a brain without slowing it down.
  3. Part 3Coming soonTwo decision models, one Mac, the same 32 tasks.
  4. Part 4Coming soonWe taught a small model to decide like Yapp.
  5. Part 5Coming soonYapp against the public benchmark.