I just had to talk to a chatbot at a doctors office and I think I developed a heart condition in frustration. They replaced the normal intake form with a thousand chatbot turns.

Everyone is all hyped about LLMs and here I just want SAM 3

The only thing I don’t like about MCP is that clients make me beg to include tools in the plan. Like, just give me a checkbox to say you MUST schedule a tool call in the plan.

I literally cannot work with Firestore without seed data in json. I lose track of fields almost immediately, otherwise. How does Firestore scale to large teams? Do you end up with a ton of spaghetti checking if slight variations of field names exist?

Had a dream that a rust app was silently crashing every time I tested it. That’s it. That was the dream. Over and over.

September 8th, the good PNW weather begins. I desire cold

.NET Aspire makes working with Dapr 1000% more comfortable

Not perfect but it kind of works. Speaker detection of multi-user webcam input.

My favorite thing about wandering into Applied AI as a focus is that in 200 lines of code you can make something profoundly useful. Like, the dopamine efficiency is off the charts, especially in CV.

Trying out Dapr Agents today. I tried Dapr+Aspire about a year ago for this purpose but they didn’t have a dedicated concept of an agent.

I still think Dapr is one of most under utilized frameworks for agentic app development.

if docker compose supports llm endpoints, that means I can start models in my devcontainer definition.

so the next big phone tech competition is certainly focusing on AI chips right? now that I’ve experienced a high quality model in my palm, I want m o a r

Got gemma-3n working in an expo app today on an android device. It’s pretty quick, but boy does the phone get hot quick.

OpenAI’s Deep Research is very interesting when you tell it to limit its research to a single website. In this case, I limited it to app.leg.wa.gov and it just ripped through Washington renters code and found exactly what I needed along with supporting information from other sections.

Owning physical copies of books is awesome until it’s time to move.

Andor S2E3

Spent the day digging into supabase and expo. There’s so much cool stuff I was missing in big enterprise fintech dev

I’d really like to see Microsoft.Extensions.AI.ModelContexProtocol The repo that Anthropic picked up is pretty ok but I think this is a gap that Microsoft could fill in a more robust way in-framework, especially since they’re integrating the spec into their products.

I appreciate how re:Invent throws frugality to the wind and prioritizes the customer in an almost obscene way.

Converted my Unreal Engine MCP server plugin from Python to Rust and cut out having to have a TCP server from UE->Python Now it’s Unreal C++ <-> Rust through C bindings. No more Python dependencies, just a dll to drop into your binaries folder The majority of the code is C++ anyway

A small experiment today. MCP server wired up to Unreal Engine

Excellent resource out of HuggingFace! This goes in my quick reference notebook. huggingface.co/spaces/nanot...

result of my first pass at a yolo11 fine tune

duckdb might be the most useful tool in my dev arsenal

I really, really like ECS as design pattern. Having put it into practice has certainly changed how I approach coding. Working on a project where the entire state is in memory has been a wonderful change, after a career of focusing on offloading data to SQL as fast as possible.

Yearly reminder to create your Brag Book to increase your chances of getting promoted, having more meaningful review cycles, or just lifting your spirits any time you feel "I haven't done anything!". When you have an impactful win, add it to your Brag Book.

kawaii_smol.png might be the best file name github.com/bluesky-soci...

Watching Fly Me to the Moon and all I can think about is rocks

Thanks to LLMs, I no longer have to ever relearn regex. That alone is worth $20/month.

Fab is a great idea with actual cursed execution. Not being able to filter by engine compatibility is a huge miss. Never mind that if you actually want to add something to UE, you need to add it to your library and then fully exit the launcher to get it to show up. #unreal #ue #unrealengine

The only issue with Arcane is the complete lack of Bandle City 💅

Messing with Functions in GPT last night and looking forward to how this would improve the reliability of executing SK skills.

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