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• April 15, 2025

  REPO PROMPT REVIEW: Granular Control and Workflow Excellence

  This is the fourth post in my ongoing series of exploring AI-assisted coding ahead of o3 Pro and o4. Check out the initial overview, best practices for AI coding, and my first review on Cursor and Windsurf. Repo Prompt - might seem like the dark horse candidate here, but I'm…

• April 14, 2025

  CURSOR REVIEW: Debugging with AI Precision

  Cursor rightfully leads the AI-assisted coding space. I use it daily, particularly when debugging active web apps built with frameworks like Next.js. Cursor's strength lies in terminal interactions, drastically reducing debugging time. A notable project was a Next.js +…

• April 13, 2025

  BEST PRACTICES: Key Understandings for AI-Assisted Coding

  This article is part two in my AI coding series ahead of this week's anticipated pre-o4 model announcement. In the first article I looked at the overall AI coding landscape and why it's exciting. I also have specific app reviews for Cursor and Repo Prompt with more on the way! As…

• April 10, 2025

  The Apps for Coding before o3 (April 2025)

  In anticipation of OpenAI's release of the full o3 model later this week. I thought I'd take a few minutes to reflect on the current state of coding with AI and mention a few of the practical solutions I've been testing (and had success with) over the past ~6 months. It's been an…

• April 6, 2025

  Baby Dev's First Commit

  After a year's break, I'm writing again. The reason? I successfully made my first commit to fix a bug in a cool community repo I've used for years. This isn't so exceptional at first glance, but I'm not a coder. I don't write javascript or python or php. Last week, while testing…

• May 3, 2024

  4 Free & Local Tools for AI chatbots (no command line)

  If you've been following along you know that making the latest technology available to everyone is one of my primary drivers. Giving everyone equal opportunity helps all of us. Accordingly, the progression in accessibility for the latest LLMs and associated research projects is…

• April 16, 2024

  Intelligence Amplification: the Evolution of Automation and Engineering

  Discover the evolution of intelligence amplification, AI's impact on engineering, and the co-evolution of human and artificial intelligence. Explore the transformative power and ethical considerations of AI and automation.

• February 23, 2024

  The Vision Pro is Apple's First PC

  Since its debut on February 2nd, the Vision Pro has dominated discussions across my Twitter feed, podcasts, and YouTube channels. Despite the flood of reviews and analyses highlighting its pros and cons, a consensus emerges: For many, the first version may not justify its…

• February 21, 2024

  Msty - an LLM for everyone

  If you've ever been intrigued by the idea of running an AI model right from your laptop, whether for privacy concerns, open-source exploration, or just plain curiosity, Msty might just be the perfect starting point for you.

• February 20, 2024

  Practical AI Application: Building a website in 30 minutes

  Creating a Functional Website in Just 30 Minutes with GoDaddy's AI-Powered Site Builder

• February 19, 2024

  2/18/2024 Generative AI In Review

  This past week there were so many advancements and announcements I decided to put together a video summary walking through everything in brief detail. Check it out and let me know if you'd like to see more of this type of content! Links mentioned in this video: Gemini 1.5 Pro…

• February 16, 2024

  The Translator (an Attempt at Science Fiction)

  (read through to the end)

• February 15, 2024

  I jailbroke my mac

  Pinokio creates a self-contained virtual computer via an app that uses the cpu, ram, hard drive, etc of your real computer. Once installed, it provides a Discovery tab of available repos from github - in other words, an AI Browser.

• February 14, 2024

  5 AI Innovations Poised to Shape 2024 and Beyond

  We explore 5 worthwhile developments that are worth following in 2024, including long inference, synthetic data, alternative architectures, mixture of experts, and online LLMs.

• February 13, 2024

  Unlocking Creativity with AI: Beyond the Usual Tools

  AI is weird and we need to embrace it.

• February 13, 2024

  2-12 Weekly Update

  Greetings and welcome to this week's roundup of major developments in AI. In today’s issue (Issue #1): AI Pulse: Weekly News & Insights at a Glance AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week AI Skillset: Learn & Build

• February 12, 2024

  Navigating the World of AI Chatbots: A Comparative Overview of Chatbot UI and AnythingLLM

  Since mid-last year I've been testing out hosted web apps that allow users to chat with various LLMs. Today I'm giving a brief overview of the 2 that I have been using the most, and where you can even give these awhirl for yourself here on the site. Both of these projects deserve…

• February 9, 2024

  Does  ❤️ OSS?

  Apple's Open Secret: Venturing Into Open-Source Software Here's something fun that I haven't seen reported elsewhere: In a move that should be raising eyebrows across the tech world, Apple, a titan of industry known for its closely guarded ecosystem, is venturing into, and even…

• February 8, 2024

  The AI Revolution in Big Tech: How Giants Like Google and OpenAI Are Leading the Charge

  Today Google released it's most advanced Large Language Model (LLM), Gemini Ultra. This represents another milestone in the advancement of AI. Specifically, Gemini Ultra matches the performance of GPT4. OpenAI has had the uncontested crown since GPT4's release last year. With…

• February 7, 2024

  Publishing the AgentSearch-V1 Torrent

  A while back I mentioned my interest in the status of the open web and specifically, marking the year 2023 as the last year of majority-human written data. With the launch of generative AI, the web is now increasingly being populated by machine-written content. A human curated…

• January 31, 2024

  what's neuralink?

  Recently, Elon Musk, announced on X: ‘The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.’ He continued: ‘The first Neuralink product is called Telepathy… Enables control of your phone or…

• January 30, 2024

  Revisiting the Web Browser

  I've often found myself at odds with mainstream web browsers. As a long-time Mac user, I've always had Safari available by default, but have never really taken to their UI. In the mid 2000s, I became enamored with Firefox due to extensions like firebug (probably dating myself a…

• January 30, 2024

  Apple Vision Pro v1: as usual, wait a bit

  I'm an avid user of Apple products, regularly using my Apple Watch, AirPods, MacBook, iPad, Apple TV, and HomePod Mini. Despite my enthusiasm for these products, I have reservations about Apple's approach towards developers and some App Store policies (worth an entirely separate…

• January 26, 2024

  facebook and open-sourcing artificial intelligence

  A lot of folks are wondering why it is that Meta (formerly Facebook) is releasing open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) for free. In reality, Meta's decision to release these LLMs aligns well with their history and business strategy. Here are three key reasons: History of Open…

• January 25, 2024

  Impacts of Artificial Intelligence: A Historical Parallel

  By now, you've probably heard that a new wave of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging, possessing great power and the potential to change virtually everything. Opinions vary widely, with some predicting a future of either absolute horror or unending utopia. The impact of AI…

• January 24, 2024

  Step 2: dogfood everything

  Dogfooding something is a well-known concept in the software space. It's similar to "practice what you preach." I believe solidly in open-source, so finding a solution that matches was critical. This website is built using open-source software called Ghost. I recommend checking…

• January 23, 2024

  getting started in open source (or anything else)

  Figuring out where to begin always feels like a daunting task. It takes extra energy to move an object at rest, after all, and it's insult to injury to make the effort and find out you've headed in exactly the wrong direction. One way to find and take that first step is to find…