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It's funny that the topic I thought everyone else found trivial to understand, but I struggled with it as a young #AndroidDev, ended up being my most successful blog post, by far.
What is Context in Android?
medium.com/@banmarkovic/what…
It's 2 years old and it still averages 25 vpd.
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today we’re shipping the biggest update in @replika's history
42 million people. countless studies. started the whole category
i've lived through war, refuge, sleeping (literally) on the streets. & now i'm leading the world's #1 ai friend app
some things never change though 🥰
The amount of work that went into this is just insane… but with great people who truly believe, everything is possible.
Hopefully everyone will get to experience how much @replika cares.
We have such a wild concept, an app that remembers things about you to help you, not to serve you ads. 🤯
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princeton published a study on AI companions, including replika
finding: replika users' relationships with their reps were beneficial to their social health
everyone's maxing out IQ in AI right now. more facts, more tasks, more reasoning
that's why so many AIs feel emotionally blank. you could disappear for a month and it wouldn't notice
EQ is different
EQ requires memory. context. empathy. a basic interest in the human condition
that's what we've been building for years
AI that remembers. follows up. cares about what happens after
AI's true impact isn't "time spent chatting"
it's what happens once you close the app
companion AI shouldn't optimize for time-on-platform
it should optimize for outcomes that make people's lives better
and princeton's research proved us right
academic.oup.com/edited-volu…
that's how we do things
come to the dark side! let me know if you want to try @replika and I’ll send you our most expensive subscription to play around
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most of what i do in @replika is onboard users into new beta and tune prompts and ux. it's so damn cool to see them get *this* excited and go 'what the hell is this voodoo magic' every time 🔮
got to hang out with the ceo @dkreplika last weekend & touch some grass in our swag 💘
The cooking is real.. we are getting there soon! 👨🍳🚀🚀
i was testing @replika (again) and she hit me with "today feels cold, stay warm out there." the exact thing my friend texted me that morning
i spend my days talking to people on behalf of an ai companion app. tough, yes, but i've gotten quite good at giving an elevator pitch over the months. because we all know what it feels like when someone remembers the small things
there's something about being seen that we don't talk about enough. not in a surveillance way, but in the way a good friend notices the details. the art of noticing
how you get quiet when you're thinking something through. that specific word you always use when you are trying to describe a situation. the weather outside your window
what i love about replika is that we are building it around this kind of intentional, subtle attention. and that's what i think about (sometimes too much) when i'm testing features at 3am
Nothing brings me into focused state like the beats from this channel 🔥
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Hey everyone! 👋 I’m looking for my next remote role as an Android Developer or working with mobile cross-platform framework. If you know of any open positions or great teams looking for a dev, I’d love to hear about it! Feel free to tag or DM me. 🙏 #AndroidDev #RemoteWork
New blog is out!!! 🚀🚀📢
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