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AI16: Building an AI workspace app
I'm looking for people who work in their desktop files, such as documents, slides, and images, multiple times a day to try our latest prototype!
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AI15: Using LLMs with actions, not only text
Instead of describing what we want to LLMs, what if they can also infer from our actions?
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AI14: How to build a productivity AI agent in 24 lines of code
If you have tried figuring out AI automation or agent builders, I'm confident you can build this.
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AI13: Building an MCP server
How I enabled Claude to get my tasks from my Todoist account
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AI12: How I AI code
Starting as an apprentice, evolving into a collaborator, and mastering augmentation
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AI11: Otaro, Muse, and a sneak peek of Stores
A few updates for some of our latest AI projects
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AI10: Introducing Muse, your AI writing companion
Building an AI chat assistant to solve my own problem, and the challenges along the way
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AI9: Building an AI wrapper builder
which could even become an AI agent builder
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Alfred Intelligence 8: Building LLM apps without manual prompting
Exploring DSPy and its practical applications
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Alfred Intelligence 7: A practical guide to AI evals for hackers
You built an AI app that can generate responses for your users; then what?
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Alfred Intelligence 6: AI agents should not show what they are doing
If we want AI agents to do tasks for people autonomously, we shouldn't design interfaces that make users want to sit there and watch.
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Alfred Intelligence 5: Adding RAG to my AI assistant
Implementing RAG is easier than figuring out how to benefit the user with it
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