AI Tutorials & Practice

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Last week Google/Janelia released the complete wiring diagram of a fruit fly brain, and someone...

TL;DR: I entered HackerRank Orchestrate wanting to win, then faced an AI judge asking how Praxi Clew...

Seven replies our agent had drafted about its own system went to an independent reviewer before...

My agent made the same mistake four times in one conversation. It kept writing files through a shell...

The development stack grew more in the last two years than in the previous ten. Most teams adopted...

Imagine this scenario, someone on your team gets offboarded while their AI agent is still mid-task....

The power of AI agents is suddenly all over the news. The CEOs of the leading AI companies are...

How GitHub, Unsloth, compilers, tests, documentation, and developer tools can reduce...

Agent Skills are a simple idea: a folder of instructions an AI coding agent can load to do a specific...

A single API key meant a routine upstream 5xx put the whole provider into a 60-second local blackout inside my own gateway, and for months I read the retries that always failed inside that window as proof the vendor itself was unreliable.

Post also inspired by Giorgi Kobaidze A separate post on Linked crossed my feed recently...

Job hunting is a part-time job on top of your job. The worst part isn't the interviews, it's the...

I built persistent memory so AI agents would stop forgetting what we were doing. Then I noticed it was keeping me oriented too, and that I was already living inside a crude version of a neuroscience experiment I was running on a fruit fly.

external memory survives a substrate reset while plasticity does not

I’m awake typing this at 5 AM on a Sunday morning, plagued by two issues: the modern operating model...

In the previous post, we taught a model to read our documents. It could search a pile of files and...

Go has two levels of visibility, and the lower one covers the whole package. A convention fills the gap, and it lives only in the heads of the people who wrote the package. An AI agent does not read heads.

When an agent builds something worth keeping, the instinct is to save the whole environment. That is the wrong thing to keep. A Workshop stores the intent (a re-derivable recipe) instead of a frozen filesystem full of debris and secrets.

In March 2025 I built mcp-profiler-bundle, a Symfony bundle that let AI coding agents read the...

🏃 TL;DR In the previous article I built a semantic product search on top of Amazon...

Eight thousand developers starred a self-hosted agent this week. Most will run it on a box nobody watches at night. Three scripts decide how that ends

Do you remember when we first started using AGENTS.md files? You would have a project root file...

Since I last wrote Building AI-powered e-commerce applications using Angular & Firebase AI Logic...

This post proposes a framework for mixed human-AI teams that can hold people of different skills and knowledge area and take advance of this misc. to build fast.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new approach to organizing context for large language models,...

But Amara, you didn't include MY favorite AI!

Part 2 — the five decisions that fought back Part 1 covered why an agentic RAG assistant —...

The most discussed launch on Hacker News this week was not another chat model. It was a model that...

Many years ago I had lots of discussions about AI with a former colleague. He was a theoretical...

How I replaced a cloud LLM with a fully local one — same agent, same tools, zero inference cost.

Yesterday, we released new Gemini Live models in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, expanding our...

I packaged DeepSeek Harness (dsh) into a double-clickable macOS installer for Apple Silicon. It worked on my machine — then died instantly on a clean Mac. Here's the otool -L investigation that found 24 absolute library paths baked into th…

This Is Not the Death of Tech I think I have figured out where the tech industry is heading. Not...

I got tired of writing the same LLM boilerplate in every project, so I made a library Three lines to...

🇫🇷 French reader? Read the French version of this manifesto here. When you have fifteen years of...

AI agents skip 10 critical SDLC gates unless enforced. Learn how to embed quality, security, and compliance checks into automated pipelines.

Will I still understand a project I (didn't quite) write? A couple of years ago, I decided...

Idempotent webhooks, a reconciliation cron, a dead-letter queue, and graph engineering. Three conversations in one week brought me back to familiar problems.

From Vertex AI in Firebase to Firebase AI Logic If you learned Vertex AI in Firebase last...