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Announcing gmickel-bench: Real-World Evals
Been wanting to do this for a while
 • Gordon Mickel
Claude Opus 4.5 Unlocks the "No Restart" Workflow
Practical tips from two weeks of shipping with the best agentic model yet.
 • Gordon Mickel
The Merchants of Complexity: Why AI Finally Delivers What Agile Promised
The era of scarcity is over. Why paying the "Agile Tax" in a world of verifiable code is financial negligence.
 • Gordon Mickel
Exciting update to our enhanced GPT-4 Powered Chatbot with New Features
Now with support for more filetypes, web scraping, YouTube video transcripts, runtime context tweaking and more
 • Gordon Mickel
Building a GPT-4 Powered Chatbot with Node.js: Unlimited Context and Chat History in Under 100 Lines of Code
In our first deep-dive we are leveraging (local) Vector Stores and Langchain for Cost-Efficient, Context-Aware Conversations with GPT-4 in Node.js.
 • Gordon Mickel
The Importance of Context in AI: Garbage In, Garbage Out
When communicating with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, the adage “garbage in, garbage out” holds true.
 • Gordon Mickel
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 • Gordon Mickel
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Applied AI for value creation. Agentic systems, LLM platforms, retrieval & evaluation, and the operating models that ship in 90 days - without breaking compliance. Pragmatic playbooks from SaaS, industrials, health & legal.
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