symbols.hashnode.devAsynchronous Agentic Programming with JulesWhile I no longer program as a full time job, I do work on personal projects and applications. I had been using the canvas features in ChatGPT and Gemini, which are great for organizing a single application, but there was still a manual copy/paste st...Nov 13, 2025·3 min read
symbols.hashnode.devJagged Frontiers converge: OpenAI and Yucaipa RidgeProfessor Ethan Mollick coined the phrase “Jagged Frontier” in 2023 to describe the lines between what an LLM can do and what it can’t. To quote his report: “There is no instruction manual. On some tasks AI is immensely powerful, and on others it fai...Jun 14, 2025·3 min read
symbols.hashnode.devOverThink: Improved LLM Reasoning with Self-Para-ConsistencyI discovered this idea on the Cognitive Revolution podcast. I created a web app based on this Association for Computational Linguistics research paper by Wenqing Chen, et al., 2024. The core idea was to generate paraphrases of the original prompt, th...Jun 8, 2025·8 min read
symbols.hashnode.devManus nobis ManManus is a China-based AI agent system designed to tackle more complex projects than typical chatbots. Each instance runs in its own Ubuntu virtual machine. After giving it a prompt, it first creates a checklist of tasks to accomplish the goal. Then,...Apr 7, 2025·6 min read
symbols.hashnode.devInteractive Hiking Maps with Datasette and Google CloudI created an interactive map of my hikes using the powerful Datasette tool by Simon Willison. The result was an intuitive, easy-to-use map that links each hike to a full report on my blog. Many interesting technologies are at play. The underlying dat...Jan 14, 2025·5 min read