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What I've learned about writing AI apps so far | Seldo.com
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far | Seldo.com
I started writing a post called "how to write AI apps" but it was over-reach so I scaled it back to this. Who am I to tell you how to write anything? But here's what I'll be applying to my own writing of AI-powered apps, specifically LLM applications. A battle I've already lost is that we shouldn't call LLMs "AI" at all; they are machine learning and not the general intelligence that is implied to the layman by the name. It is an even less helpful name than "serverless", my previous can
·seldo.com·
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far | Seldo.com
Prompt Engineering | Kaggle
Prompt Engineering | Kaggle
Kaggle is the world’s largest data science community with powerful tools and resources to help you achieve your data science goals.
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Prompt Engineering | Kaggle
A quote from Drew Breunig
A quote from Drew Breunig
The first generation of AI-powered products (often called “AI Wrapper” apps, because they “just” are wrapped around an LLM API) were quickly brought to market by small teams of engineers, …
·simonwillison.net·
A quote from Drew Breunig
An LLM Query Understanding Service
An LLM Query Understanding Service
An LLM Query Understanding Service Doug Turnbull recently wrote about how all search is structured now: “Many times, even a small open source LLM will be able to turn a search query into reasonable structure at relatively low cost.”
·simonwillison.net·
An LLM Query Understanding Service
Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems
Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems
As more people start hacking around with implementations of MCP (the Model Context Protocol, a new standard for making tools available to LLM-powered systems) the security implications of tools built on that protocol are starting to come into focus.
·simonwillison.net·
Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems
MCP + PydanticAI - Build powerful AI agents
MCP + PydanticAI - Build powerful AI agents
Get the full code: https://github.com/riza-io/examples/tree/main/demos/mcp_and_pydanticai Try out Riza's MCP server: https://docs.riza.io/getting-started/mcp-servers PydanticAI is one of the most popular frameworks for building AI agents in Python, and it recently launched MCP support. If you've been wanting to learn MCP, this is a great place to start. In this tutorial you'll build a simple agent with PydanticAI, and then add an MCP server called fetch, which enables web browsing. Then we'll use the Postgres MCP server to add database querying to our agent. Then we'll use Riza's remote MCP server to add a code interpreter to our agent.
·youtube.com·
MCP + PydanticAI - Build powerful AI agents
Pydantic Evals
Pydantic Evals
Pydantic Evals Brand new package from the Pydantic AI team which directly tackles what I consider to be the single hardest problem in AI engineering: building evals to determine if your LLM-based system is working correctly and getting better over time.
·simonwillison.net·
Pydantic Evals
Function calling with Gemma
Function calling with Gemma
Google's Gemma 3 model (the 27B variant is particularly capable, I've been trying it out [via Ollama](https://ollama.com/library/gemma3)) supports function calling exclusively through prompt engineering. The official documentation describes two recommended …
·simonwillison.net·
Function calling with Gemma
microsoft/playwright-mcp
microsoft/playwright-mcp
The Playwright team at Microsoft have released an MCP ([Model Context Protocol](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp)) server wrapping Playwright, and it's pretty fascinating. They implemented it on top of the Chrome accessibility tree, so …
·simonwillison.net·
microsoft/playwright-mcp
The Most Important Algorithm in Machine Learning
The Most Important Algorithm in Machine Learning
Shortform link: https://shortform.com/artem In this video we will talk about backpropagation – an algorithm powering the entire field of machine learning and try to derive it from first principles. OUTLINE: 00:00 Introduction 01:28 Historical background 02:50 Curve Fitting problem 06:26 Random vs guided adjustments 09:43 Derivatives 14:34 Gradient Descent 16:23 Higher dimensions 21:36 Chain Rule Intuition 27:01 Computational Graph and Autodiff 36:24 Summary 38:16 Shortform 39:20 Outro USEFUL RESOURCES: Andrej Karpathy's playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThsA9GvCAUhRvKZ&si=zBUZW5kufVPLVy9E Jürgen Schmidhuber's blog on the history of backprop: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-backpropagation.html CREDITS: Icons by https://www.freepik.com/
·youtube.com·
The Most Important Algorithm in Machine Learning
MCP Package Registry | Model Context Protocol
MCP Package Registry | Model Context Protocol
A CLI that helps you easily install and manage Model Context Protocol Servers. Simple package management with comprehensive analytics and GitHub integration.
·mcp-get.com·
MCP Package Registry | Model Context Protocol
Claude MCP has Changed AI Forever - Here's What You NEED to Know
Claude MCP has Changed AI Forever - Here's What You NEED to Know
Everyone is starting to realize how big of a deal Claude’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is - it’s the first ever “standard” for connecting LLMs with services like your database, Slack, GitHub, web search, etc. It’s VERY powerful and not well understood by many, so in this video I break down everything you need to know about MCP at a high level. I go quick here unlike my usual videos, but I call out a bunch of different resources you can use to dive into anything deeper that you’re curious about - MCP architecture, building your own MCP server, integrating your custom AI agent with MCP, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Check out Stagehand, an incredible tool to crawl and scrape websites with natural language which I used in this video: https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand And here is the Stagehand MCP server that I showcased (you will need a Browserbase API key which is free to start!): https://github.com/browserbase/mcp-server-browserbase/blob/main/stagehand/README.md ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Documentation for Claude’s MCP: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction List of MCP Servers on GitHub: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers Example n8n MCP Agent: https://github.com/coleam00/ottomator-agents/tree/main/n8n-mcp-agent n8n Community Node for MCP: https://github.com/nerding-io/n8n-nodes-mcp Example Pydantic AI MCP Agent: https://github.com/coleam00/ottomator-agents/tree/main/pydantic-ai-mcp-agent Dive deep into the architecture of MCP: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/architecture ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 00:00 - MCP is Blowing Up 01:55 - What is MCP? 03:12 - Making MCP "Click" (Deep Dive with Diagrams) 05:33 - How Agents Work with MCP 07:16 - Word of Caution - What MCP Isn't 08:17 - Where You Can Use MCP 09:47 - MCP Servers You Can Use NOW 11:18 - How to Set Up MCP Servers 12:08 - Using MCP Servers in Claude Desktop 13:11 - MCP Demo in Claude Desktop (Brave + Stagehand) 14:09 - Building with MCP (Servers and Clients) 15:22 - Building Your Own MCP Server 18:09 - MCP with n8n AI Agents 20:10 - MCP with Python AI Agents 21:56 - The Future of MCP 23:51 - Outro ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos at least two times a week - Sundays and Wednesdays at 7:00 PM CDT!
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Claude MCP has Changed AI Forever - Here's What You NEED to Know