A weekly conversation about helpful AI tools that you can use today
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This lesson explores the evolving landscape of tool use, focusing on AI's gradual yet transformative impact on various professions. Experts discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by AI integration, emphasizing the need for professionals to understand both the practical applications and underlying processes of these powerful new tools.
This lesson explores the exciting potential of AI in children's education, highlighting the crucial need for ethical development and responsible design of AI tools. By emphasizing hands-on learning, critical thinking, and iterative design based on children's feedback, educators and developers can harness AI's power to foster creativity and understanding while mitigating potential risks.
Revolutionize your workflow with Strawberry, an AI-powered browser integrating research, communication, and coding tools for unparalleled efficiency. Sana Labs' AI agents and learning platform further enhance productivity by streamlining tasks and providing integrated AI assistance across multiple applications.
Retriever (rtrvr.ai) is a browser extension using AI to automate web data extraction and tasks, significantly boosting productivity by eliminating manual copying and pasting. It offers seamless cross-platform compatibility, natural language prompts, and background operation, handling complex website structures and large datasets with ease.
This lesson introduces flow engineering, a superior alternative to prompt engineering for building robust AI systems. By optimizing entire AI workflows, not just prompts, flow engineering enables faster development, easier troubleshooting, and greater control over complex AI applications.
An exploration of AI tools from the people who build them.
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Master the `ai-toolkit` for lightning-fast AI-powered terminal commands, leveraging LLMs like Groq for efficient code generation and streamlined workflows via easy-to-use aliases and pre-configured environment variables. This lesson guides you through installation, setup, and usage on both macOS and Windows, boosting your productivity with the `ai_cli` and `ai_git_commit` tools.
Master Atuin v18.2's powerful command history and intuitive search functionality, streamlining your workflow with efficient navigation shortcuts and collaborative features showcased through live video conferencing. This terminal application boosts productivity for coding and development tasks, offering a user-friendly interface despite minor visual imperfections.
This lesson demonstrates a new Obsidian plugin that uses Open Interpreter for natural language control of your vault, automating tasks like text modification and image processing. The open-source plugin, still under development, showcases Open Interpreter's potential for streamlining workflows and replacing paid APIs with custom AI solutions.
This lesson explores the technical intricacies of podcast creation, from backend development to broadcasting, and demonstrates how prompt engineering refines AI-generated summaries of promising AI startups from 2023, highlighting the industry's rapid growth and substantial venture capital investment.
This Tool Use episode demonstrates AI-powered tools for code generation and farming. Script-O-Matic generates Python scripts from user prompts, while FarmFriend uses AI to optimize farming tasks, showcasing AI's diverse applications.
This lesson explores the intersection of AI and productivity, showcasing "Calvin," a novel time-tracking and calendar management tool, alongside advancements in open-source LLMs like the efficient 7-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model. The discussion also delves into the implications of OpenAI's potential pricing changes and the future of AI-powered developer tools.
This "Tooluse" episode features AI toolmaker Killian, showcasing how the COVID-19 pandemic and GPT-3 fueled a boom in AI development, particularly in video generation. Killian's open-source project, a top GitHub package, exemplifies the power of solving personal problems with AI, transforming a previously developer-only skill into accessible technology.
This lesson demonstrates AI-powered tools automating open-source contributions, from pull request generation to issue tracking. The showcased tools, including `pr-writer` and "TODO Issue Creator," significantly improve developer workflow and encourage broader participation in open-source projects.
