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Crushing my code with Crush
I’ve been following the folks at Charm for a while now. If you’re not familiar with them, they make some of the most beautiful terminal applications and libraries I’ve ever seen. Their Lip Gloss toolkit and Bubble Tea TUI framework are the kind of tools that make you excited about building command-line interfaces again. So…
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Trying out Claude’s Research Mode
I’ve long been a fan of Anthropic’s Claude. The models keep getting better, and their claude.ai interface is top notch. I’ve used it for a wide variety of tasks, and I tend to reach for it first whenever I a want to learn something new, or fix up some text, or write a little code.…
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AWS Machine Learning – Harness the power of MCP servers with Amazon Bedrock Agents
I’ve been digging into this new AWS blog post about Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and their integration with Amazon Bedrock Agents, and I have to say, I’m pretty excited about what this means for those of us building with AI.
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Amazon AGI – Introducing Nova Act
I’ve been keeping a close eye on the evolution of AI agents lately, and this week’s announcement from Amazon AGI Labs caught my attention. They’ve introduced Nova Act, and it represents a shift in how we might use AI in creative and technical workflows.
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Hosting my books on AWS with Writebook
There are now several ways to read the short story I wrote earlier this year. You can of course always re-read the serialized “blog style” story on Substack. But, if you want a more traditional book style format, I have a couple options for you. Why all the formats? Well, I guess I just believe…
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Hugh Howey & DeepSeek R1: The Algorithm that Learned to Listen
One of my favorite science fiction authors, Hugh Howey, has published a book of discussions with DeepSeek R1. When DeepSeek was released to the public, I gave it a test I’ve given other AIs. The results were astounding. What emerged was a conversation — prompt and poetry — that felt different from anything I’d played…
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Extended Thinking with Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock is Wow!
I think the title of this blog post kinda sums it up. I’ve been testing out the new Extended Thinking capability with Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock, and it’s just wow. In Bedrock, just switch on “Model reasoning” in the playground and give it a whirl. So many possibilities. I’m still collecting my…
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Chat-CLI and Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic released a major upgrade to their Claude Sonnet LLM today with version 3.7. Shortly after it was announced, Amazon announced availability via Amazon Bedrock, and shortly after that I went and made sure it works with Chat-CLI. It works! I didn’t have to update any code at all as I am using Bedrock’s Converse…
