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I read the headline — “True Multi-Agent Collaboration Doesn’t Work” — and almost scrolled past. I’ve seen enough articles where someone throws a naive prompt at an AI, gets a naive result, and concludes that AI is stupid. These pieces tell you more about the author’s assumptions than about the technology. They start with a conclusion and design an experiment to…
This is Edition #1 of The Product Data Signal — a newsletter covering AI visibility, product data strategy, and the evolving infrastructure of digital commerce. AI is reshaping how products get discovered — but most of the advice out there is written for content sites, not catalogs. This edition cuts through the noise for the people who actually manage product data, run marketplaces, and sell…
LLMs and rain dance, OR: a little exercise in logic (and why I doubt LLMs will be commoditized soon) When I started studying Physics at LMU in Munich, we were the guinea pigs. Our class was the first under the new Bachelor / Master approach that was forcefully adopted EU-wide, and that meant a somewhat radical departure from the German “Diplom” which gave a lot more freedom and allowed…
Over the past months, some of my friends asked: how can I teach my children (or other younger relatives) how to code? What is the best programming language for them to learn? At what age should they start? etc. I was a bit baffled, partly because I didn’t know where to start, partly because they didn’t explicitly say why the wanted to encourage their children to code. The general…
The question of if and how to store images in MongoDB keeps popping up on StackOverflow and newsgroups. The two standard answers are “Yeah, use GridFS…” or “No, don’t store Images in the Database” . But GridFS is cracking a nut with a sledgehammer and storing a large number of files in the file system doesn’t (usually) come with replication, backup or…
Some of my favorite blog posts These are some of my favorite programming/IT-related blog posts from around the net. Stuff to build Build a Blockchain https://hackernoon.com/learn-blockchains-by-building-one-117428612f46 Ray Tracing in One Weekend https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html Security Password Rules are Bullshit…