A weekly conversation about helpful AI tools that you can use today
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Adam Cohen Hill's "Toolies" interview details his challenging yet rewarding journey in AI and hardware development, emphasizing the crucial role of user feedback in iterative product improvement. He highlights the difficulties of bringing hardware to market, particularly conquering the final stages of a project, while advocating for building impactful tools within a supportive community.
Agentic AI, exemplified by Brachi, automates email processing and other tasks, moving beyond simpler AI features to offer improved workflow efficiency. This lesson demonstrates Brachi's user-friendly interface and capabilities, comparing it to existing solutions and highlighting its potential to revolutionize productivity.
AI is rapidly automating tasks, empowering individuals to become entrepreneurs and managers by handling complex workflows, particularly in podcasting. Despite current limitations like "hallucinations," the future promises even greater efficiency gains, but requires strategic implementation and a focus on practical use cases.
This lesson explores the transformative potential of open-source AI, emphasizing its accessibility, cost-effectiveness, and collaborative nature in contrast to proprietary models. Experts discuss its applications across diverse fields, from genome analysis to robotics, while also addressing crucial ethical and safety considerations for responsible AI development.
This Azure Cosmos DBConf 2022 presentation explores Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), emphasizing the crucial role of efficient data retrieval in enhancing large language models. The discussion covers practical challenges, solutions using tools like Graphlit, and future directions for building robust and scalable RAG systems.
Tools you can use in your terminal that leverage AI
2 lessons
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.
