From Agent to A Soul
More Than Just an Agent I’ve been thinking about how we talk about AI systems, and Anthropic’s concept of a “soul” really resonates with me. When you take an agent and layer in personality, …
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Fast Is Slow When You're Neck Deep in AI Slop
The Pattern Nobody Wants to Talk About I’ve seen a distinct pattern where AI slows down software development. I know. Heresy. But hear me out. Agents are fast, but in the old saying kind of way: Fast is slow, and …
Reverse Engineering Agentic Workflows from Copilot Debug Logs
Here’s a secret weapon for building your own agentic workflows: GitHub Copilot Chat’s debug logs. You know how everyone’s out there wrestling with hallucinating AI agents? Trying to figure out how to …
The UI of AI is CLI
We spent decades trying to make computers easier to use. We went from punch cards to command lines to graphical user interfaces to touch screens. We added buttons, menus, icons, gestures, or really anything to avoid …
Planning the Planning: The Agentic Software Development Paradox
Planning the Planning: The Agentic Software Development Paradox You know what’s wild about working with AI agents to build software? The planning. Oh boy, the planning. Not just a plan - that would be too simple. …
Building a Fully Local, Privacy-First AI Chat with Ollama and Open WebUI
Sometimes I want full control, not most, but total, end-to-end control over the tools I use to think, build, and create. That’s where Ollama and Open WebUI comes in. This is my go-to local AI chat setup: a fully local, …
When Pragmatism Meets Silence
Had one of those surreal conversations at work recently. I needed to onboard with an internal AI service—because, frankly, there’s only one option available: and it’s run by a team building their own wrapper around …
Sora Text to Video: Playing with AI Like It’s 2049
Oh, dear readers, I am excited! I have been experimenting with a new tool called Sora. I’ve been using Stable Diffusion since the moment it leaked, and it’s only been getting better and better. But now, with …
Local LLMs as a Code Assistant in Visual Studio Code!
I’ve started using a new Visual Studio Code extension called Continue, and it feels like having a private professional paired programming partner powered by local LLMs. Heh, say that three times fast… i’ll …
Microsoft TinyTroupe for Ui Ux Persona Focus Groups
TinyTroupe is incredible. Imagine running your own focus group composed of multi-personality AI agents. From a UI/UX designer’s perspective, the ability to explicitly define user personas and have them evaluate your …
You Know What's Going to Be Funny When Ai Goes Offline
You know what’s going to be funny? When AI services go offline and teachers finally get to see what a student’s real writing would be like. Imagine the shock—“Wait, why does this essay look like a …
Today, I Introduced the Interns to Dogfooding
Today, I got to introduce the AI interns to new topics like dogfooding*, cyclomatic complexity, BEM, JSON:API, and why interfaces are so useful. It was great to nerd out with them! Their excitement was contagious, and I …
Embracing Multi-Model Approaches for Enhanced Workflow Efficiency
Leveraging multiple models can significantly streamline the software development process. Here’s a strategy to consider: Requirement Analysis: Use one model to gather user requirements. Edge Case Identification: …
Stable Diffusion Explained Like I Am 5
Imagine “a world, earth, seen from space, 8k, unreal engine, detailed, photorealistic”… Remember the common phrase, “a picture is worth a thousand words”? Well, it’s time to rethink …