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notes, benchmarks, and teardowns from building blink.

Vision

What is Blink? Blink is a Mac assistant for the replies hiding in plain sight: it reads your screen, drafts the next words, and stays quiet until you need it. Apr 19, 2026

Context Loss

Blink vs just asking ChatGPT ChatGPT is a chatbot you re-explain yourself to every turn. Blink already sees the thread and writes the reply into the box. here's the honest tradeoff. Jun 7, 2026

Screen-Aware Computing

What is the accessibility tree? The accessibility tree is the structured, machine-readable version of a screen that screen readers use, and that an assistant can read too. Jun 7, 2026

Agent Tooling

Where the latency actually goes in a screen-aware assistant we measured the summon-to-draft loop in blink. the model's thinking dominates; the network hop and the screen capture are basically free. Jun 7, 2026