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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Implementing least privilege access for Amazon Bedrock

This is a really useful and well explained blog post on how to apply the Principal of Least Privilege with Amazon Bedrock. This is a topic I get asked about on...

Meta SAM 2.1 is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Meta SAM 2.1 is a state-of-the-art vision segmentation model designed for high-performance computer vision tasks, enabling advanced object detection and...

Lightweight LLM for converting text to structured data

In two recent papers we published at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP and on ArXiv, we presented a native approach to...

Generating a video of ducks with Luma AI Ray v2

Luma AI's Ray v2 is now available through Amazon Bedrock. So, I tried the following prompt: "Generate a video of ducks swimming in a pond and someone rowing a...

Chat-CLI v0.4.5 is here, kind of

I was really excited to start writing this blog post after pushing v0.4.5 into existence. I added quite a few new capabilities and refactored a lot of code,...

Reaching for Claude

More and more I am finding myself reaching for Claude to answer simple questions or help me better understand complex topics. I really love the Claude Desktop...

Cookin up something

Processing Amazon Bedrock log data with Go

Yesterday I wrote about an idea to allow users of my Chat-CLI program to save their chats and load them up again. My idea led me to design and build a...

Notes on Building Conversations Support for Chat-CLI

I've spent a bit of time over the past couple of days thinking more critically about how I'd like to evolve my Chat-CLI project. One of the capabilities I've...

I asked Claude to create an interactive website for producing sinusoidal test patterns and it took less than a minute

I can't really explain it, but for a long time like since the mid 90's I've been sort of obsessed with the image you see above. It's called a "sinusoidal test...

Coca-Cola's AI Christmas

I have these three AI generated ads on my mind tonight. They came out a few weeks ago or so, and they've easily sent the ad world into a tizzy–just read the...

Generating video from still images with Amazon Nova Reel

I suspect I'll be posting a lot of these in the weeks ahead as it's fascinating to me what you can do with the new Nova Reel and Canvas models. In a previous...

Generating videos based on generated images with Amazon Nova Canvas and Reel

I've been experimenting a little with the new Nova models on Amazon Bedrock. I'm currently just doing this all through the AWS Console. Nova Reel has the...

Adding ALL Amazon Bedrock models and more to Chat-CLI

Earlier I wrote about updating my Chat-CLI project to support the latest Amazon Nova models. It occurred to me by the end of writing that post that I needed to...

Experimenting with Arcee Lite on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace

The recent announcement of the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace is really exciting. You can now provision over 150 LLMs from a growing list of providers and access...

Here's my first video generated with Nova Reel

Prompt: "Generate a video of a dog eating a slice of pizza" Not bad! Nova Reel is pretty interesting. It took just a few minutes to generate this 6 second...

Use models from Amazon Bedrock Marketplace in Chat-CLI

In a previous post I talked about getting up and running with LLMs via the new Amazon Bedrock Marketplace. So, naturally I have added functionality to Chat-CLI...

Adding Amazon Nova models to Chat-CLI

I've just updated Chat-CLI to support the new Nova models from Amazon that were announced at yesterday's re:Invent keynote. You will need to update your Model...

Amazon Science: Amazon Nova and our commitment to responsible AI

Amazon Nova and our commitment to responsible AI https://www.amazon.science/blog/amazon-nova-and-our-commitment-to-responsible-ai The rise of foundation models...

A quick sketch of the Aurora Borealis with Claude

There's been so much chat online about people generating fake images of the Northern Lights using diffusion models, so I thought I'd see what Claude and I...

Building an interactive growth calculator with Claude

I asked Anthropic's Claude to build me a simple, interactive calculator as a static website for looking at year over year growth. It's simple math, but nice to...

Birgitta Böckeler: Exploring Generative AI

Exploring Generative AI https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html Previously, developers could rely on Copilot for minor assistance, such as...

Generating AWS Architecture Diagrams with Claude

I've been really enjoying creating code artifacts with Anthropic's Claude. The interface is really simple and easy to use, and in many cases it can generate...

Seb Chan – 98. Sound, media and art adventures in South Korea

I was amused by MAPS’ Ai & Me, a snarky AI therapist or fortune teller that uses computer vision to make mean judgements about your personality and...

Amazon at EMNLP 2024

A quick guide to Amazon’s 50-plus papers at EMNLP 2024 https://www.amazon.science/blog/a-quick-guide-to-amazons-50-plus-papers-at-emnlp-2024 Amazon Science has...

The Art of Prompt Engineering

Master the techniques for crafting effective prompts that unlock the full potential of large language models.

Turning my voice into blog posts with Amazon Transcribe and Bedrock

Finding My Creative Voice I've always felt a tension between my technical side and my artistic side. For years, I've compartmentalized these interests, keeping...

Building AI Agents with Claude

A deep dive into creating autonomous AI agents that can reason, plan, and execute complex tasks using Claude's API.