thehwang

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built What if you couldn't...

I built jq for Parquet, then ghosted three v0.14 issues for 21 days. Here's how a hashtag, Copilot, and Cursor finally shipped them — and what I learned when DuckDB lied to me on the cover image.

At num_ctx=2048, Gemma 4 E2B writes a hallucinated meeting summary, notes that it's not actually in the transcript, then writes a more careful one. Every single time. Here's the 15-run ablation that found it — and why my last Gemma 4 article got the framing wrong.

How adding Gemma 4 to my local macOS meeting transcriber surfaced an Ollama default that had silently capped every summary at 2,048 tokens.

How I built Scripta — a dual-channel meeting recorder that transcribes your mic and system audio in...