Mikio Braun's Blog
Very often I see people starting a system prompt like "You're a helpful agent/bot that does XYZ", and I've done it, too. But once I was working on an agent to take natural language request and turn...
I recently had a realization about the structure of typical llm computations like the agent loop or the llm inference itself which I found interesting to better understand what's going on. The basic...
Github repo: https://github.com/mikiobraun/lx Install: go install github.com/mikiobraun/lx@latest What it is: Using an LLM to explain a log stream. When I was recently playing around with ollama to...
I've been coding with agentic support for a bit more than a year now on the side, and built a huge number of things, all developed with a raspberry pi 5 running in my living room as dev server . Not...
At yesterday's Google IO conference, Google announced that they will overhaul the Search experience , making the difference between normal search and AI mode smaller, adding working agents that can...
Last week I wrote about agentic memory and I got a lot of responses, in particular many people pointing me to existing projects like mem0 or letta.com. So I started doing research, and as one does...
It's a bit embarrassing to share the following, but beginning of this year I had a particularly intensive session with the "chat Claude". We were riffing off some ideas which became the dev-router...
As with most things related with AI, coding agents is a hot topic and there's a lot of different opinions floating around on the Internet. Some say "coding is essentially solved". Others say it's all...
In my last post I wrote about my experiences of using coding agents to use data science and how their "software engineering" persona didn't perform well at interpreting success or dealing with the...
Recently I tried using a coding agent for doing data science work, and I was surprised how much it struggled. It didn't struggle with the actual coding work. In fact, it was really good at it, and...