'receive with simplicity everything that happens to you' ~ Rashi
As I finish building the first iteration of our in-house agent platform that is tailored to our specific needs, I found myself questioning if the criticism of the NIH(Not Invented Here) syndrome has changed as a result of AI-powered development. Developing your own tools/libraries/software takes time, effort, money and creates a commitment for the future [ ]
I had a thought today that kept bouncing around in my head: the future of AI isn t necessarily in the hands of a few tech giants, but rather in how everyday people choose to organize around it. Not as consumers of a service, but as participants in something more collaborative. Let me explain. The current [ ]
About two years ago, I developed a small family bot. Its main purpose is to coordinate various aspects of our household life, including: The assistant operates as a Telegram bot, ensuring easy access from anywhere without the need for custom interfaces or dedicated apps. The Intelligence Behind the Assistant Over the last two years, I’ve [ ]
I attended my first WebSummit this week. I was planning to write a longer post on my blog, but in the meantime, I realized I don t feel like it. So here are few, short, summarized and totally random takeaways: 1 Too much AI. I mean, I was prepared for a lot of AI stuff. [ ]
I ve bumped into a couple of different Reddit discussions where people are sharing their spectacular/frustrating failures with AI agents. Both from the perspective of the AI expert and from the companies that hired them.I m not so shocked at the former. Oil-snake salesmen have existed since forever. It is the latter that surprises me. A few [ ]
One and a half years ago, I wrote Why I Keep My Kids Away from AI (For Now) As you can probably guess, things have changed. My convictions, as I wrote back in April 2023 are the same. My concerns are the same. But as we move forward and AI creeps more and more into [ ]
Update: workspaice now has its own website. track future updates via www.workspaicehq.com I ve been working on something exciting that I can t wait to share with you all. It s called Workspaice, and it s been quite a journey bringing this idea to life. I want to tell you about this project, my motivations behind it, and how [ ]
This was probably one of the most frustrating issues I ve dealt in recent times. And finally, after many hours thrown at it, I finally found a solution. The Problem We have a suite of around 700 backend tests in our Laravel application. We use PHPUnit and Paratest to speed up the testing by spawning parallel [ ]
UPDATE: this project was discontinued I lost track of how many times I started a new daily journal, with or without some special journalling methodology. The benefits of journaling regularly are well-known. Many famous personalities and great people also kept a daily diary of some sort. And I don t even need convincing, I really do [ ]
Back in late 2022, I started working on my pet project codenamed Armin (for artificial mind ). It was all about creating an AI agent that would have some real mind-like faculties. Mind you, this was pre-chatGPT, so I was using the good old completion models, aka Davinci-003. I did a series of videos on the [ ]