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This week's Web Weekly is just about to hit all the inboxes! 🥂 If you care about the web platform you should check it out! www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-wee...

Unedited, behind the scenes of recording a podcast episode. This week's guest was @stefanjudis.com , the author of the wonderful Web Weekly newsletter webweekly.email. Full episode coming soon.

The 67th edition of the JS Craft Newsletter is out: - 📕 Algorithms to Live By - 🎙 New Podcast Episode with @paolo.ricciuti.me - 💻 TypeScript MCP - 🤖 The Future of AI Agents Read it here → www.js-craft.io/blog/newslet...

When day to day things are not as simple as they seem, and why we need the js URL Pattern API: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYBb...

Continuing our Spanish adventures, we took a 3-day trip to Nerja. Just check out this picture! I'm a bad photographer, but when the landscape and light are so beautiful, even I can take decent pictures.

A couple of days ago, I interviewed @paolo.ricciuti.me , core contributor to @svelte.dev and maintainer of the TypeScript MCP library. Many interesting things, including how the Svelte team is using its MCP server to upgrade code to new versions. youtu.be/rITKditB-A0

bittersweet news :) Thanks for all Brian 👏

Writing MCP servers it's quite boilerplatey but most of the times you will return a single text content from tool or a single message from prompt. I'm adding a bunch of utils to tmcp so you can now just return tool.text("Tool result"); or return prompt.message("Your prompt"); Any feedback?

This podcast with Dorian Yates (6 consecutive Mr. Olympia titles) is excellent! It seems that when it comes to building muscle mass, the same principles apply as in passive investing: keep it simple, do fewer actions, and put the most you can into it. youtu.be/t2pBvH6I7qg

One of my bets is that, most applications will soon have an integrated AI/LLM layer. Just like they have a database layer. The AI layer could be used for: - 💬 NLP capabilities to greatly enhance the UX - 📦 making sense of unstructured data - 🤖 commentating with other AIs

Seeing all the news about JS and AI, I am very excited about the attention JavaScript is getting as a language for building AI-powered applications. It reminds me of a tweet I saw a while ago that said, "Python is for training AI, while JavaScript is for building with it."

It's not always sunny here in the South of Spain, but being able to workout outdoors at the seaside in shorts and a T-shirt in November makes it all worth it. Happines++

When it comes to AI, orchestrating LLMs & agents through code is far more powerful (and fun) than relying solely on prompt engineering. That's one of the reasons I wrote "📘 Build AI Agents with LangGraph js". www.js-craft.io/langgraph-js...

Check out @ishananand.bsky.social 's presentation at @cascadiajs.com. It’s a great example of how we can create something similar to "View Source", but for LLMs 🤩 youtu.be/clqB9mpdwok

The 66th edition of the JS Craft Newsletter just dropped: - 🎓 How LLM tokens really work - 🎙 Hrishi Olickel on AI engineering & agents - 💰 Financial Independence as a Software Dev - 🧠 Knowledge work is dying; welcome to the age of wisdom work Read it here: www.js-craft.io/blog/newslet...

Speaking about taking home office infrastructure to the next level, I found this older article by Stephen Wolfram on his home office setup. Incredible writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seek...

Tech job market report by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com: - 📈 gradual but consistent increase in hiring across both Big Tech & startups - 🤖 surging demand for AI engineers - 📍decline in remote opportunities, and the growing importance of location newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-t...

Success is unpredictable. Luck and timing play a bigger role than we think. That’s why who you work with and how you spend your days might be the real “win.” I wrote this short rant on the importance of long-term games and values 👉 www.js-craft.io/blog/on-succ...

The new Web Weekly is just about to hit all the inboxes. 🎉 As always, it's jam-packed with web dev goodies. Check it out! 👇 www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-wee...

One of the best ideas I've read recently. Moral of the story: don't compete with AI on marginal improvements but instead, do things AI cannot do. Knowledge work is dying! Welcome to the age of wisdom work! every.to/thesis/knowl...

This weekend we made a 2 days trip to Ronda which has now become my favorite non-coastal town. Mind-blowing views. Thank you, 🇪🇸 Spain!

I've been in the industry for over 20 years. Tech is challenging, exciting, and beautiful. A great place to grow. But it's not easy at all, especially if you want to master the craft.

I just saw one of those “It’s so easy to get into tech and make a huge salary” courses. It was launched by someone who: 1. did a coding bootcamp, 2. stayed 2–3 years at a company, 3. quit, and now sells courses. If it’s so nice and easy in tech, why quit so fast?

I think that RAG will be a huge market. 95% of the world's data is "private" and therefore unavailable for training foundation models. But we can feed this private data to local LLMs via RAG. In some way each organization will likely have its own LLM-RAG app.

Success isn’t just about hard work - it’s also about timing, luck, and the people you choose to share the journey with. I wrote this small rant on why the daily process, values and companions matter more than outcomes: www.js-craft.io/blog/on-succ...

I have just published the September edition of the JS Craft newsletter - Building a timeless foundation in AI Engineering & MCP in JavaScript 👉 www.js-craft.io/blog/timeles...

How to get an "unfair" advantage vs AI? Build real human connections. I've tracked that the a podcast episode takes me 8-10 hours to produce. Why do I do it? Well, learnings. But the most important is the motivation it gives me! Interacting with someone who I admire === energy++

Learned this the hard way! In dev mode, start by testing your prompts with smaller AI models. They fail quickly and often, which is exactly what you want. Larger models can mask mistakes, making debugging much harder. On top of that, smaller models are cheaper leading to a faster feedback loop.

Today I did a talk on MCP in front on 30+ devs. I love writing and hate speaking. So much energy goes into how you speak instead of what you say. When writing, you can edit and refine. When speaking, it’s all real-time. But being good at speaking will always gives you a huge edge!

How to make your side gig the most efficient as possible: 1. Have a baby 2. get a 9-5 job 3. Fit the side gig in the time left. In the end, constraint inspires creativity. It forces you to get real very fast.

Thoughts LLMs && Coding 1. English has a more complex syntax & vocabulary than JavaScript. If an LLM can write decent English, there is a high chance it is able to write JS as well. 2. With a code interpreter, an LLM can validate its own responses & regenerate. This is unique & essential.

Will MCP become the HTTP of AI?

👥 I think the only truly long lasting moat is doing things that don’t scale. Showing up in person. Building genuine human connections one by one.

C. Newport and DHH are right! I often find myself having 2 different discussions in MS Teams while attending a meeting on a 3rd topic. In the modern workplace, we’re battling to find space for deep work and flow. And we need them, not just to be productive, but also to be happy! youtu.be/uAFCvQtjZ7o

💡 LLMs, with their natural language processing capabilities, will become the UI. For example, you won’t need to learn Excel’s interface and functions. The embedded LLM will understand commands like: 'Give me the average of the top 50% of values from the salary column'.

Very few things give me better vibes than receiving reviews like this one from readers of my LangGraph js book: jscraft.gumroad.com/l/zbbgz

💰Where can I invest my learning today and earn dividends for years to come? Think about how rewarding it would have been to deeply learn SQL 20 years ago, or to master CSS. You could have built an entire career on those foundational skills. With the rise of AI , this question is even more important.

In case you missed it, I’ve published really nice interview with @humanwhocodes.com, the creator of ESLint. We discussed: - AI engineering with JavaScript - MCP and his new project, CrossPost - building a long-lasting career as a software dev And much more 👇 youtu.be/gqOgRt9XuuU

This is brilliant. Learn how to learn and adapt - knowledge compounds just like money. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE6e...

More #JavaScript AI frameworks please! Congrats, Sam and the team! Mastra AI is now at 100k NPM downloads!

💬 Python is great for training AI models, but JavaScript is the true language of web builders. Nothing beats the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem when it comes to shipping apps to production. That's why I'm quite bullish on using JavaScript for AI Engineering.

Speaking of local models and Ollama. All of this real-time visual recognition is now possible with a local LLM (Llama) running on an M3 MacBook. 👉 x.com/i/status/192...

Nothing beats sitting on the terrace with a good coffee and some deep learning on a chill Saturday morning. On that note, if you're looking for a solid read, my LangChain & LangGraph books are 30% off as a bundle! 👉 jscraft.gumroad.com/l/zbbgz

Been getting emails about using LangGraph AI agents with local LLMs for privacy. Thinking of adding a chapter to the book on this. Until then, here’s a video on installing Ollama, pulling Llama 3.2 locally, and integrating it with LangChain.js: youtu.be/pKK07kObVnw?...

More and more, I see files on GitHub that mix human language and code. I'm starting to wonder if Andrej Karpathy might be right when he says that the most popular programming language will soon be English.

TIL: If you replace "https://github.com/repo-url-here" with "https://gitingest.com/repo-url-here", you can instantly turn any GitHub repository into a text digest of the codebase, perfect for feeding into an LLM.

The 6 hour podcast with DHH and Lex Fridman was too long for me to sit through, but it's full of great ideas on AI, learning, and programming. I didn’t want to miss out, so I took the YouTube transcript, passed it through an LLM, and ended up with this nice 170-page book for the weekend.

🎰 One of my bets is that, soon, most applications will have an integrated AI/LLM layer, just like they have a database. The AI layer could be used for stuff such as NLP capabilities, to enhance the UX, make sense of unstructured data, and even communicate with other AI's.

Super excited to share my interview with @humanwhocodes.com ! We talked about: - AI assisted development - MCP - JavaScript vs. Python for AI integration - Building a long-lasting career as a software dev - The importance of writing well in the age of LLMs 👉 js-craft.io/blog/nichola...