Excellent article I found through the Digital Press. Our agency focuses on simplicity as a core philosophy to ship MVPs quick, so these we steer clear of these JavaScript frameworks. Rails to the moon! www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...

My fav prompt template for debugging right now. Even if it doesn't fix the same bug, the response usually gives me plenty of context on how to steer it in the right direction again.

I know in-person networking doesn't quite scale like online does, but man I find online networking (twitter, bluesky, linkedin, reddit, discord, etc.) such a drag 😭. In-person is so much richer and more fun. Maybe it's just me though?

Did a deep dive today on performing evals for web apps with LLM integrations. It's an open field at the moment, with lots of ideas but not many established practices. This article is by far the best read if you are interested: www.confident-ai.com/blog/llm-eva... Thanks Confident AI!

Just took a peek at some of the leaked prompts for GPT 4o. Glad to see I'm not the only one that has to repeat critical instructions to the model.

Want to build a generative AI web app without the headache? @ed.losangelesaiapps.com explores the full spectrum, from complex MERN stacks with @langchain.bsky.social and Pinecone, to surprisingly capable single-file SQLite monoliths.

Been studying prompt engineering lately. Interestingly enough, different model providers will contradict each other when mentioning where to put your instructions when faced with long context usage. A short thread 🧵 👇🏼

With Google IO just wrapped, here's a practitioner's nuanced take on the latest AI developments. It's not purely "amazing!" or "we're screwed." AI is a tool—some cases are beneficial; others, deeply concerning. Here are my highlights, good and bad: 🧵

One of the principles by which I design software is simplicity. It's too easy for developers to default to complex. In my latest blog post, I discuss a fun experiment: how simple can you make a web application that performs RAG? Turns out pretty simple! losangelesaiapps.com/the-simplest...

I was hoping by o3 that when you told the model "Output your response as a single raw Markdown" file it would stop doing this 🙃. No amount of prompt engineering is fool proof. I know it has to do with escaping backticks, but I wonder how much intelligence is necessary to prevent this. o4? o5?

@ed.losangelesaiapps.com unpacks why Ruby on Rails might be the refreshingly simple solution you've overlooked for #GenAI integration. Discover how data scientists & ML engineers are rediscovering Rails as their productivity multiplier for AI-powered apps.

Is #ChatGPT helping or hurting education? New meta-analysis reveals the ANSWER. Luciano Abriata meticulously analyzed 51 studies to quantify the TRUE impact of LLMs in educational settings.

Great to see that Litestream is getting an update! We used this on our Amble project as a backup for the SQLite database, and loved it. Cool to see that point-in-time restores will be a lot faster! fly.io/blog/litestr... Thanks @benbjohnson.bsky.social!

Love when I found articles like this on the Digital Press, even if I disagree with this physicist 😬 thedigipress.com/articles/523

When you think of incorporating AI into an MVP, what programming language do you reach for? For most people, it's Python. However, in a blog post I just published, I make the argument for why Ruby is the best language to use for AI MVPs. Check it out! losangelesaiapps.com/building-ai-...

Had two pieces of our work featured in the recent issue of the RoboRuby Ruby AI newsletter: - My article on the layers of the AI stack (losangelesaiapps.com/layers-of-th...) - The Digital Press (thedigipress.com) Thanks @mattsolt.bsky.social! rubyai.beehiiv.com/p/ruby-ai-ne...

We just created an AI-curated, personalized newsletter that we are calling The Digital Press! 🥳 In this thread I will discuss how it works, how we built it, and what we learned in the process. 🧵 thedigipress.com

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Here's a google search that uses this trick to find ChatGPT-assisted documents from congress.gov : www.google.com/search?q=sit...

If you are building RAG applications, you don't want to miss this. Doug Turnbull is going to show you his tricks he's learned from a decade of optimizing retrieval in search systems, and how that transfers to RAG. Link: maven.com/p/29a33a/hyb...

Building an AI-powered app? Ed Izaguirre's new article provides a foundational understanding of the AI stack and crucial considerations for success. Learn how to differentiate your application and leverage the power of underlying AI advancements effectively.

🤖 Interested on how to develop applications with AI integration? 📕 Check out an article I just published that helps you understand why the application layer of AI is the place to be for small developers. losangelesaiapps.com/layers-of-th...

Python is finally catching up to JavScript, Rust, Ruby, etc. with a standard for lock files for dependency management 😭 Back when I was developing more in Python this was a huge headache. peps.python.org/pep-0751/

Great blog on Google's decline. Love the part about how tech's self-obsolescence works to help regulate tech giants, preventing them from overstaying their welcome. Although it does seem difficult to bet against Google. om.co/2025/03/29/t...

Seeing a lack of content using ChatGPT's updated image generation, so I'll get the ball rolling. Here is a studio Ghibli version of my dog Gizmo, along with the original.

Using an LLM to choose an LLM is the new P=NP

Do you love riddles? Are you bored right now and want to kill some time solving fun riddles? Then check out Riddler! Try your hand at some tricky riddles, and have a whimsical gnome give you hints to guide you in the right direction. 🤑 Free to use, no user registration. 🔥 thinkriddle.com

Loving RubyLLM! Definitely simplifies the integration of LLMs with Rails. As someone who has to build and ship web apps with Gen AI frequently, the speed up and enforcing of best practices is great. Will definitely be using this heavily. Thanks @paolino.me! github.com/crmne/ruby_llm

We just released Yapper! This is a tool to ask questions, get answers, and discover new blogs. We curated some of the best bloggers in Ruby, JavaScript, and AI to help answer your questions. Btw, this is product is free to use. Happy discovering. 🔥 yapperchat.app

Interesting article on Deep Research. Recently used it myself to help plan a multi-day vacation. Worked fairly well for that purpose, but at times did lean towards superficiality. Don't know if anyone else had a similar experience? towardsdatascience.com/deep-researc...

Just discovered a platform for building AI apps in Ruby. Anyone have experience building with this? Looks interesting. github.com/OlympiaAI/ra...

Exciting times for AI in Rails! @tonsoffun.bsky.social www.activeagents.ai/blog/active-...

the-decoder.com/openai-veter... OpenAI veterans reunite at Thinking Machines Lab

Finally got around to publishing part two of my series on SQLite and RAG! Includes full code walkthrough and repo access. Definitely the simplest way to do RAG. Uses sqlite-vec. Thank @alexgarcia.xyz! losangelesaiapps.com/retrieval-au...

I know I'm probably late to the party on this, but the Full Site Editor (FSE) + Gutenberg on Wordpress is surprisingly solid. Had bad experiences with inflexible themes before, but with the FSE pretty much everything is customizable, and having global colors, fonts, etc. easily editable is great.

I created "High Leverage Rails" (highleveragerails.com, sign up now for your launch day discount!) to show you how simple yet powerful web development can be when you unlock the power of vanilla Rails and vanilla SQLite.

Been hearing a lot talk on Reddit about Bricks Builder, a page builder for Wordpress. Anyone here tried it? Trying to find a lightweight but full customizable page builder for Wordpress. bricksbuilder.io

Tonight is Boulder Ruby with two fantastic talks lined up: 💫 Landon Gray: "Jupyter notebooks with Ruby" 🔌 Anthony Eden: "From Stalled to Supercharged" 📅 👉 RSVP: lu.ma/e37ect5e?tk=... Thanks to @github.com, @dnsimple.bsky.social, MojoTech, @fastly.com, and @gustohq.bsky.social for sponsoring!

@towardsdatascience.com is moving off of Medium apparently? Also seems that Medium is now starting a competitor to TDS? Interesting to see how all this will shake out. towardsdatascience.com

WiFi was down last weekend, now the PlayStation network is down….idk what I did to piss off the internet, but whatever human sacrifice needs to be made to repair the situation, I’m ready and willing to make it