Stories by dbreunig

An Agentic Case Study: The Messy Work of Building a Gemini Agent to Play Pokémon

The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over

Let the Model Write the Prompt: Using DSPy to Decouple Your Task from the LLM

Comparing Claude System Prompts Reveal Anthropic's Priorities

Using 'Slop Forensics' to Determine Model Lineage

Chatbots Trigger Guardrails Differently Based on Your Age, Gender, and Fandom

Breaking Down Claude's 26k+ Token System Prompt

DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade

Explaining Reasoning Models: How they work, how they're built, & why they matter

AI-Powered Apps Are Changing the Dynamic Between Domain Experts and Developers

AI Chatbots Are Like Observational Comics

ChatGPT fixes your DALL-E prompt if it's bad, but lets it be if it's good

Controlling FFmpeg with natural language from the command line

A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop

A Gentle Guide to Running a Local LLM, for Complete Beginners

DeepSeek Is a Rorschach Test Revealing Each's AI Hopes and Fears

The Rise of the Term "Authentic Data" Illustrates AI Anxiety

Your Eval Is More Important Than the Model: Building an Example Eval

The "Cyren" Song: Meta's AI profiles, Character.ai, and other fake humans

A Primer on Synthetic Data: How It's Helping and Shaping LLMs

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