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Yapp macOS

Tap a key, talk, and your Mac gets on with it while you're still talking. Speech stays on your machine, and a small decision model turns each phrase into an action. Anything that could do harm waits for your yes.

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Series

Series · 1 part, 4 coming

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.

Start with Part 1Latest: 29 Sept 2026
  1. 1Use your Mac without touching the keyboard. Is this a better harness for LLMs?
  2. 2Giving Yapp a brain without slowing it down.Soon
  3. 3Two decision models, one Mac, the same 32 tasks.Soon
  4. 4We taught a small model to decide like Yapp.Soon
  5. 5Yapp against the public benchmark.Soon

What's new in Yapp

  1. Yapp29 Sept 2026

    Use 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.

    Claude for Yapp
    8 min read