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I built a little Claude that dances when it needs me
I’ve got into a bad habit lately. I set Claude Code off on some task - refactor this, write …
How to build an eval you can actually trust
Here’s how most people build an eval. They open a file, write an LLM judge prompt that says …
Two labs started dreaming, and they built two different architectures
Originally published on the Arize AI blog: Two labs started dreaming, and they built two different …
Twenty-seven years ago I nearly put six people out of work with an Excel spreadsheet
Twenty-seven years ago I nearly put six people out of work with an Excel spreadsheet.
Every AI …
Memory is still a missing primitive: Cataloguing what the field is actually shipping
Originally published on the Arize AI blog: Memory is still a missing primitive: Cataloguing what the …
Strong opinions, strongly held - and why I don't care about your tooling debate
I was in a meeting last week where the team was debating which of two tools to use for a job. Both …
3 strikes and you're an AI skill
Back in the day when we wrote actual code instead of poking at an AI, I had a general rule for when …
Enhance GitHub Copilot CLI with skills
Coding agents like GitHub Copilot are pretty cool. You can ask them to do pretty much anything …
Build a Star Wars Copilot in C# - Lesson 8: Agents and Orchestration
Final lesson, and probably my favorite.
We move from a copilot with tools to a system that also uses …
Build a Star Wars Copilot in C# - Lesson 7: Multimodal Image Generation
Lesson 7 brings multimodal capabilities into the stack.
Instead of only generating text, the copilot …
Build a Star Wars Copilot in C# - Lesson 6: RAG from a Database
By lesson 6, we already have an MCP server and client working.
Now we add a classic enterprise use …
Build a Star Wars Copilot in C# - Lesson 5: MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Lesson 4 gave us tool calling inside the app.
Lesson 5 takes the next architectural step: move tools …