Category: AI

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Learn AI Now! Don’t Be Late!!

I spent some of the past weekend playing AI; building AI Agents. If you haven’t built one yet, it’s now easier than ever. YOU MUST!!!

Firstly, what a difference a few months makes. I started this journey a couple months ago. I have a 5-hr YouTube tutorial video bookmarked about how to build an n8n AI agent from scratch. It took me a couple days to get through the first hour of it, but I managed to get everything set-up and get a basic agent that reads data from a Google sheet up-and-running.

Then I let it sit. Summer. Life. Maybe deterred by the anticipated time to build a useful agent.

Fast forward to now. Every single agent you might want is fully built and available as open source. Copy/Download the n8n config file, import, and configure the components with your credentials.

In 10 minutes, I had a working pipeline that summarized a YouTube video, provided the key takeaways, and even crafted some thought provoking tweets about it (to invoke various emotions), should I want to use (or just to give myself more ideas).

I now use this before watching any YouTube video. Some videos just aren’t worth the 20, 30, or 60+ minutes to watch. Just tell me what I might want to know and/or the key takeaways.

This simple exercise has now unlocked ten-thousand other ideas and expanded my horizons on what is possible. Oh my god, my AI thinking has been so primitive! …still is, really, but I’ve definitely leveled-up 🙃

This is the decentralization of intelligence. These LLMs are taking the intelligence of everyone on the internet and making it easily accessible to you. Do not miss this train!

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Does AI in 2025 feel like the Internet in 1999?

These days with AI and LLMs feels like feel like Internet circa 1999. Agree?

In 1999, I was in my Senior year at Queen’s University, completing my Engineering degree.

I wasn’t an investor at the time, but I followed the markets a bit since I was starting to look into employment opportunities. I remember a distinct thought from back then: “Why am I learning C++? Every ‘hot’ job wants Java developers?”.

Anything internet related or with .com in the name was getting funded or and valuations were going to the moon. You have to understand the times: my university email was my first email address in 1996, and we were accessing it through Pine. (Sidenote: Hotmail and Yahoo mail only started in 1996 and 1997, respectively)

These days, AI seems to be developing as fast, if not faster, than the move to the internet. Every week, it seems like one model is leap frogging the other. Even developing new LLMs seems to be faster/cheaper because those models can be developed by training/prompting on existing LLMs.

MCP was introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 and it’s everywhere already. It now feels like a race to build “Whatever” (pick-your-niche) you can find and incorporate AI into it using the APIs. Just like there was a race to [English-word].com in 1999.

Don’t get me wrong, some amazing things have been built. But I’m not seeing any moat on so many of these businesses. It’s the AI wild west gold rush, just like it was the internet gold rush in the late 90’s.

All I know at this point is that this AI train is a major train, like the internet was over the last 25-30 years. Don’t sleep on it. Millions will be made, millions will be lost. But this will change our lives in the years to come.

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A poem about GRIT

by Kerry Hew (and ChatGPT).

Well, really it’s by ChatGPT, as directed by Kerry Hew. 😋

AI is blowing my mind right now. It’s getting scary good. We are about to take a radical turn.

Instructions: Write a poem about a positive outlook, and grit, after failure in the style of Dante.

OUTPUT:

In the depths of despair and failure’s woe,

We must hold fast to our faith and will,

And never give in to the world’s great blow.

For though our plans may falter, our dreams may fall,

We must rise up with grit and determination,

And face each challenge with a heart of gall.

For though the path ahead may seem uncertain,

Our positive outlook will guide us through,

And lead us to a brighter, better future.

So let us not despair in moments of defeat,

But embrace each challenge with steadfast resolve,

And rise up with the strength of our own two feet.

For in the end, it is not our failures that define us,

But the way we face them with courage and grace,

And strive towards success with a steadfast heart,

And an unbreakable spirit, filled with boundless hope.

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