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At the start of this year, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said 2025 will be the year of the AI agent. Many high-profile companies like Shopify and Duolingo have reinvented themselves with AI at it score, building internal systems and agents to automate processes and reduce headcount. I spent the last 3 years running a…

I’ll be honest with you, I don’t actually like the term “vibe coding” because it makes it sound easy and error-free. Like oh I’m just going with the vibes, let’s see where it takes us. But the reality is it takes a lot of back and forth, restarts, research, repeats, re-everything to build and ship…

How would you react if your friend or a family member said they were going to invest all their time and money into building a company called Poober, the Uber for picking up dog poop? Think about it, you’re walking your dog and it lays down a mini-mountain of the brown stuff. The smell alone…

Yesterday OpenAI rolled out o3, the first reasoning model that is also agentic. Reasoning models have been around for a while, and o3 has been around in it’s mini version as well. However, the full release yesterday showed us a model that not only reasons, but can browse, run Python, and look at your images…

The Agent Development Kit (ADK) is a new open-source framework released by Google that simplifies the end-to-end development of intelligent agent systems. Do we really need another agent framework? Probably not. But hey, Google’s been on a roll and Gemini 2.5 Pro is my new favourite model (we’ll see if this changes next month), so…

When I was in Lisbon last November, a friend of mine invited me to hike the mountains of Madeira with him. He warned me that the trails get pretty slick and that I needed good hiking shoes. In the past I would have gone to Google and searched for best hiking boots for Madeira and…

I used to play a ton of video games as a kid. The first one I ever played was Prince of Persia, the old side scroller where your character jumped around, avoided traps, and fought enemies. With Gemini 2.5 Pro and the Canvas feature, I tried to build a basic version of that, but with…

Last week I helped a friend, a speaking coach, build a custom app to analyze client videos with AI. He had been doing it manually as part of his coaching program. Clients would upload videos of themselves speaking to a Dropbox folder, he would watch it, and then send feedback. As you can imagine, it’s…

What is Claude, how does it work, and what are the best ways to use it? In this series, I help you become a Claude connoiseur.

You either become an AI-first company, or you lose to your AI-powered competitors. In this guide, I show you the step-by-step process to doing this.