Development

Screen-AI: Building a Native macOS App Overnight Without Knowing Swift I don’t know Swift. I’ve never built a macOS application. Last night I started a new project at around 10pm. By this morning I had a native desktop app that watches my screen, maintains a running AI conversation about what...

AI Partnership Programming: Two Approaches to Staying in the Driver’s Seat The promise of AI-assisted development comes packaged with impressive statistics: “AI writes 50% of our code” or “10x productivity gains.” These numbers create a seductive narrative where developers offload coding work to AI while focusing on higher-level tasks—or perhaps...

Serving multiple tenants from a single CloudFront distribution is a cost-effective way to scale a SaaS platform. Rather than spinning up separate infrastructure for each customer, you can use CloudFront Functions combined with KeyValueStore (KV) to dynamically route requests based on hostname—all at the edge, with sub-millisecond latency. In this...

🛡️ Agent Security and Prompt Injection The capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to control applications via tool calls (functions) are revolutionary. However, this introduces serious security risks, primarily from Prompt Injection. Prompt injection occurs when a user or outside data source (like a LinkedIn profile’s “About” section) injects malicious...

🤖 The Architecture of AI Personalities Hello everyone, and welcome! This post covers the talk I gave at the Vegas Tech Alley AI Meetup in June 2024, where we explored the concept of AI personalities: what they are, what value they provide, and how they are constructed to orchestrate complex...