May 4, 2025

Here’s an LLM-generated podcast of what I coded last week. NotebookLM-inspired. The process proved straightforward. Get my GitHub commits for the week. Get the repositories I committed to for more context. Have an LLM generate a podcast script. I’m using GPT 4.1 Mini but might shift to Gemini 2.5 Flash or DeepSeek V3. …using a detailed prompt beginning with “You are a podcast script assistant for “Anand’s Weekly Codecast.” This episode is for the week of {WEEK}. …”. Here’s a sample output. Convert the script to audio. I’m using GPT 4o Mini TTS with customized voices of Ash and Nova. These now appear on my GitHub repo as a weekly summary. ...

We all have stuff we know well and don’t. I know the % charge on my phone to within a few percent and the current time to within a few minutes – no matter when you ask. But I have no idea how much money there is in my pocket. Things I know within 5% error Things I get wrong by ~500% Current time Time to finish my current task My weight My next meal % charge on my phone How long the phone will last Number of unread emails Time to clear them Price of my next earphones Cash in my wallet Length of this list How long it will go before I stop But this apart, it turns out generating xkcd style comic strips is harder than I thought. ...