# introduction part — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover introduction part. Page: Feed: --- ## [AI Introduction Part 3: Workflow Patterns (Part 1)](https://jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/2026/08/19/ai-introduction-part-3-workflow-patterns-part-1/) _2026-08-19 · Jason · Jason Fleetwood-Boldt_ Anthropic defines an important difference between workflows and agents: Workflows, or workflow patterns, are systems where LLMs are exercised (used) through predefined code paths. Agents, or agentic systems, are systems in which LLMs direct their own processes and tool use. Anthropic is explicit about the fact that you might not need an agentic system: “We \[…\] The post AI Introduction Part 3:… ## [On Good Demands, Part 4: Walk with God](https://danolinger.com/2026/08/17/on-good-demands-part-4-walk-with-god/) _2026-08-17 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ Part 1: Introduction | Part 2: Do Justly | Part 3: Love Mercy Finally, Paul says, Walk humbly with God. There are actually two ways we think of walking. One is with the emphasis on where you’re going, and the other is with the emphasis on whom you’re with. The destination, or the journey. Let \[…\] ## [On Good Demands, Part 3: Love Mercy](https://danolinger.com/2026/08/13/on-good-demands-part-3-love-mercy/) _2026-08-13 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Do Justly Second, the Lord says, love mercy. The word translated mercy here sometimes it s translated lovingkindness has three concepts in it. First, there s a relationship between these people. They re not strangers; they have a relationship of some kind. One is having mercy toward the other. He s showing lovingkindness. The Bible \[ \] ## [AI Introduction Part 2: Terminology](https://jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/2026/08/11/ai-introduction-part-2-terminology/) _2026-08-11 · Jason · Jason Fleetwood-Boldt_ As a professional programmer my whole life, I’ve spent a good amount of time learning technical concepts. Tech concepts aren’t very difficult for me anymore, but I always like to ground myself in a baseline set of rudimentary concepts before moving into more complex ones. Typically, the way we understand the world is by making \[ \] The post AI Introduction Part 2: Terminology appeared first on… ## [On Good Demands, Part 2: Do Justly](https://danolinger.com/2026/08/10/on-good-demands-part-2-do-justly/) _2026-08-10 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ Part 1: Introduction The first thing that God says he desires of his people is to do justly, to do justice. That s the Hebrew word mishpat. This is the decision of a judge. What does a judge do? In the biblical context, the judge would hear the case and then he would ask, What does \[ \] ## [On Good Demands, Part 1: Introduction](https://danolinger.com/2026/08/06/on-good-demands-part-1-introduction/) _2026-08-06 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ When Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment in the law, we all know that he went to Deuteronomy 6.4-5. Perhaps you ve heard why he was asked about that: among the rabbis there was a long discussion about what was the greatest commandment in the law. You can read in the literature of the \[ \] ## [AI Introduction Part 1: How to Prompt](https://jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/2026/08/05/ai-introduction-part-1-how-to-prompt/) _2026-08-05 · Jason · Jason Fleetwood-Boldt_ Most bad AI output isn t a model problem. It s a prompt problem. I was talking with a fellow coder friend of mine named Matthew Breau about prompting. He and I have both been using Claude Code and AI tools in general for about ten months now, roughly as long as most coders I know. Matthew \[ \] The post \AI Introduction Part 1: How to Prompt\ appeared first on Jason Fleetwood-Boldt . ## [On Humor](https://danolinger.com/2026/08/03/on-humor/) _2026-08-03 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ Like most people, I ve always liked humor. During my Cub Scout days, when I had a subscription to Boys Life magazine, I always turned first to the last page, Think and Grin, which was a whole page a whole page! of jokes. I d spend the next few days trying them on my family, with only middling success. \[ \] ## [On Ministry, Excursus: Paul after Acts](https://danolinger.com/2026/07/30/on-ministry-excursus-paul-after-acts/) _2026-07-30 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Part 6: Contentment Part 7: Loyalty Part 8: Commitment Part 9: Endurance Part 10: Summary In Part 9 of this series I raised the issue of the outcome of Paul s hearing before Caesar after the end of the book of \[ \] ## [On Ministry, Part 10: Summary](https://danolinger.com/2026/07/27/on-ministry-part-10-summary/) _2026-07-27 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Part 6: Contentment Part 7: Loyalty Part 8: Commitment Part 9: Endurance So what have we learned? We ve started with the premise that although there is a place for full-time Christian service and a vocational ministry, the Scripture calls all believers \[ \] ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UVHGv4Pk4tB2) _2026-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when friends get the Graphite Business Card through your referral. ## [On Ministry, Part 9: Endurance](https://danolinger.com/2026/07/23/on-ministry-part-9-endurance/) _2026-07-23 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Part 6: Contentment Part 7: Loyalty Part 8: Commitment Paul spends the last half of 2 Timothy focused on a single theme: endurance. The logical progress here is evident: the servant s contentment in God s \[ \] ## [On Ministry, Part 8: Commitment](https://danolinger.com/2026/07/20/on-ministry-part-8-commitment/) _2026-07-20 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Part 6: Contentment Part 7: Loyalty With chapter 2 of this shorter epistle to Timothy, Paul turns to a slightly different nuance of the characteristics of ministry. He s just discussed loyalty and noted that God \[ \] ## [On Ministry, Part 7: Loyalty](https://danolinger.com/2026/07/16/on-ministry-part-7-loyalty/) _2026-07-16 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Part 6: Contentment Paul writes a second letter to Timothy. This second epistle begins with the standard epistolary opening authors, recipients, benediction and then an opening prayer of thanksgiving, which Paul includes in most but not all of \[ \] ## [On Ministry, Part 6: Contentment](https://danolinger.com/2026/07/13/on-ministry-part-6-contentment/) _2026-07-13 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Paul finishes his first epistle to Timothy by focusing on another characteristic of servants, or ministers: contentment. He begins the final chapter by speaking to actual physical servants, those who are owned by their masters. The intervening \[ \] ## [The Part Vibe-Coding Forgets](https://jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/2026/07/12/the-part-vibe-coding-forgets/) _2026-07-12 · Jason · Jason Fleetwood-Boldt_ AI can make software run. It still can t tell whether a human knows what to do with it. One of the things I think AI-assisted code and vibe-coding need to pay a lot more attention to is an old, unglamorous idea from software design: usability. I’ve spent years having this conversation with early-career developers. Now \[ \] The post The Part Vibe-Coding Forgets appeared first on Jason… ## [Quadrant Positioning](https://jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/2026/07/03/quadrant-positioning/) _2026-07-03 · Jason · Jason Fleetwood-Boldt_ This is something everyone has a reference for, but few founders and business owners get right. You are not for everyone, and everyone is not for you. It s easy to get attached to our ideal version of self. The greatest offering. The best value. The one service nobody does quite like you do. I hate \[ \] The post Quadrant Positioning appeared first on Jason Fleetwood-Boldt . ## [Rails 8: Don’t Get Lost in Building & Packaging Paradigms](https://jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/2026/06/12/rails-8-dont-get-lost-in-building-packaging-paradigms/) _2026-06-12 · Jason · Jason Fleetwood-Boldt_ For getting Bootstrap to work with Rails 8, you need to choose between Propshaft, JSBundling/CSSBundling, Shakapacker, or Vite Rails as your asset pipeline or JavaScript paradigm. (Note: Propshaft is the new default asset pipeline, not a packager. The other three options are packagers that handle bundling and transpiling.) One sentence for anyone upgrading: Sprockets is gone as the Rails \[ \] The… ## [Structure Was Always the Hard Part](https://jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/2026/05/04/structure-was-always-the-hard-part/) _2026-05-04 · Jason · Jason Fleetwood-Boldt_ My friend Koushik Dasika wrote a post last week called Coding Was Never the Hard Part. He s right. The interesting question is why we re only able to say it out loud now. For two decades, the conventional story about software has been that engineers are slow because coding is hard. Now AI writes code, and \[ \] The post Structure Was Always the Hard Part appeared first on Jason Fleetwood-Boldt . ## [Claude Code: The AI That Knows Its Place](https://jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/2026/01/26/claude-code-the-ai-that-knows-its-place/) _2026-01-26 · Jason · Jason Fleetwood-Boldt_ Claude Code: The AI That Knows Its Place When I first dipped my toes into AI last year, I was like everyone else—typing questions into ChatGPT to hunt down on Stack Overflow. It was instantly gratifying. Most of the time, it delivered excellent answers. But ChatGPT also loved to lead me down dead-end paths: recommending \[ \] The post Claude Code: The AI That Knows Its Place appeared first on Jason… ## [Zuverlässiges Hosting, Domains, Server (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7N0TYeN3xgZ9) _2026-01-26 · **Sponsored**_ Zuverlässige Infrastruktur, niedrige Preise und skalierbare Server für deinen Webauftritt. ## [Book Updates and Errata. Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs (Second Edition)](https://easyperf.net/blog/2024/11/11/Book-Updates-Errata) _2024-11-11 · Denis Bakhvalov · Denis Bakhvalov_ Subscribe to my newsletter , and support me on Patreon , Github , or by PayPal donation . I will use this page to provide updates and errata for the second edition of my book “Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs”. Updates and General Information 11-Nov-2024: The book is now available on Amazon . 22-Nov-2024: Hardcover and Kindle versions are available. 03-Dec-2024: The PDF version is…