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I learned a lot from this Ted talk  "How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking"  With so much AI available at our fingertips it's become clear to me that critical thinking skills are more important than ever. We cannot make the mistake of developing the habit of just accepting what AI tells us and delegating our critical thinking to AI.  So this talk resonated with me. The speaker is polished and in command. He hits us with some home truths: "where the knowledge worker no longer engages with the materials of their craft" "we've become intellectual tourists" we visit, but don't inhabit ideas "we've become middle managers for our own thoughts" Working with AI requires significant metacognitive reasoning (thinking about your own thinking process), about your task goals, decomposing work, applicability of gen-ai nd your ability to evaluate output. Working directly with the material makes you better at these skills and becomes...

Running Claude Code in terminals is ok, but I felt managing it all needed a better user interface to organize and track.   conductor is an example of what such a user interface could be

claude code npm tech stack:  typescript - claude code is written in ts (pssst: typescript is a must know language imo) react - ui is written in react and uses ink for interactive command line ink - react components for command line! used by a whole list of AI whos who with command line yoga - embeddable flexbox layout engine and  bun  - js runner, runtime, bundler; choose over webpack/vite etc. because bun is faster) npm to distribute claude code Started as a simple project to query what music someone was listening to. Then added capabilities to access the file system and run batch commands. Usage spread rapidly within Claude Code team who dogfooded it. "around 90% of claude code is written with claude code" (not by, with) claude code is a thin wrapper over the claude model, they deliberately want people to experience the raw model, not obstructed by much business logic a guiding principal is: simplicity, choose the simplest approach possible the most complex part of cl...

This is a good talk from Andrew on Agentic AI He packs a lot of info and ideas into this talk.  Andrew starts with his view that "AI is the new electricity" - because its a general purpose technology to allow building of new applications Andrew provides an overview of the current AI tech stack, but adds a new layer: an "agentic orchestration layer" applications: credo, woebothealth, workera, meeno etc. new agentic orchestration layer: langchain, crewai etc. models: openAi, anthropic, llama infrastructure: aws, google, azure chips: nvidia, amd etc. Most of the opportunity will be in building new AI applications (even though models are currently getting the most attention).  Andrew said he is "most excited" by Agentic AI (AI agents). Agentic AI is an automonous workflow which uses advanced reasoning to solve problems by reasoning, trial and error and iteration. "zero shot" when you ask a question and get back an answer e.g. original chatGpt. Agent...