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Ryan Elston

Projects tinkering and Musings from an engineer that can't hold still.

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Agentic frameworks are a waste of time

This is not clickbait. I will defend that statement and I will double down. Trying to use this Multi-Agent Framworks for personal productivity LLM use cases is a waste of time. I will show you why, and provide a simple alternative that is more effective, efficient, and we will all have a good laugh at the end.

My personal note-taking system

If you’re like me, you have a terrible working memory. Without writing things down, functioning as a person or productive engineer is impossible. I’ve tried various note-taking tools (OneNote, Evernote, Google Keep, etc.). But for a high-level engineer, plain markdown is hard to beat.

Why I Use Markdown, and Why You Should Too

Writing is important It’s a fact of any knowledge-working profession that when you reach a high level, you’re going to be doing a lot of writing. It’s one of the hallmarks of highly successful people. They keep journals, both professional and personal, creating their own knowledge base that they can draw from. These are habits that just make you more effective at life, full stop.

Introducing ‘Mark’, a Markdown CLI tool for GPT4o

Introduction In this post, I want to introduce Mark, a simple CLI tool that uses Markdown and its syntax to interact naturally with the GPT4-vision/GPT4o models.

Areas of Study

Since 2017, blockchain technology has captured my attention. I have been intermittently doing small dives into the developer ecosystem, just trying to learn the basics and what might be possible. However, there are a few significant highlights that shape how I think about the space, what motivates me to keep learning and playing, and what directs my areas of study.