I’ve been an engineer for over 25 years, and one thing I’ve realized only recently is that I’ve always cared deeply about something most people barely talk about: the development environment itself. Not just the code. Not just the system design. The environment. Since I started writing software, I’ve had this strange, almost quiet joy… Continue reading Why Environment Architecture Matters More Than Ever for AI Readiness
Category: Programming
Exploring Agentic AI: hello world with Semantic Kernel
In my last post we explored how we can build a very simple agentic application using CrewAI. Personally, I like to build these hello world applications to understand better how the frameworks function. In this post we will go through the same procedure, but this time we are going to use Java and Microsoft’s Semantic… Continue reading Exploring Agentic AI: hello world with Semantic Kernel
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with LoRA: A Practical Guide
Large language models (LLMs) are very popular these days. Most likely you have used tools such as ChatGPT or Claude. They are great, for many different tasks. But what they are not good at is working with your own, private data. Wouldn’t it be great if you could chat with a large language model about… Continue reading Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with LoRA: A Practical Guide
The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 19) – Automate new Content
It has been a while since we touched our micro business, https://www.usmalbilder.ch. What started as a simple family project has helped me a lot in better understanding the latest AI technology and was a great motivator to try out ideas. Initially, we have been using simple ChatGPT to help us with coding and generating text… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 19) – Automate new Content
AI assisted coding with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Since May 2024 Claude from Anthropic is available in Europe. I’m not sure how well known this is, in any case I want to invite you to give Claude a spin, specifically as the latest model is said to be superior in some tasks (such as coding) compared to GPT-4 according to some articles I… Continue reading AI assisted coding with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Running Selenium on a Docker Development Container
I spent quite some time getting Selenium working on my development container. At the end, the solution was quite simple and I thought it would be a good idea to share it. I have tried to get this running by installing all the required software on my development container directly, but nothing really seemed to… Continue reading Running Selenium on a Docker Development Container
The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 17) – Where we are and trying Stable Diffusion
Busy times You may have noticed that some time has passed since my last update on our micro business www.usmalbilder.ch. There were just so many things going on and the project was live, so I had to reprioritize some topics. How does it go? It is already a bit late but I have been thinking… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 17) – Where we are and trying Stable Diffusion
The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 16) – Good News on SEO
Just a super short update! Our latest changes to www.usmalbilder.ch resulted in successful indexing of all our coloring pages! When someone is searching for a coloring picture, there is now a chance they land on our website. Le’ts try this out on Google! Cool, the third result is from usmalbilder.ch! What now? We have now… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 16) – Good News on SEO
The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 15) – Using AI Models
So far, we have been using AI services like ChatGPT and Midjourney to help us with content creation. But there is still a lot of manual work involved in adding new coloring pages: We don’t mind the work involved using Midjourney. It’s OK to review the generated images, maybe refine them and then select the… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 15) – Using AI Models
The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 14) – Even more on SEO and some new AI stuff
It has been a while since my last blog post. To be honest we have been waiting until Google and co properly index all our images. Without too much success, until we found out that manually submitting URLs seemed to work better. We don’t really know how the crawler works, but we found that some… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 14) – Even more on SEO and some new AI stuff