R&D / AI & Experiments

Exploring emerging technologies, AI frameworks, and forward-looking research.

Welcome to the R&D / AI & Experiments index.

• AI Local setup

  AI Local setup

• Opencode.ai

  Using Opencode.AI and grok-code-fast

• Unlocking the power of Model Context Protocol (MCP) on AWS | Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

  Description of AWS and MCP

• Can AI build me a local self-hosted web based diagram tool?

  I'm revamping my note-taking nvim workflow, and I want the simplest diagram tool I can integrate and didn't want to use the cloud version in this instance.

• Can AI generate automated web tests?

  Using Claude desktop and mcp-playwright can we generate some tests with prompts alone?

• Can AI give good advice on API design related questions (Part 1)

  Using Grok I ask some basic questions around account reference / tenant character sets and see where it goes?

• Character Restrictions for API Contexts

  Reference of characters to use/avoid

• Can AI build me a metrics tracker tool for this astro site content?

  Simple tools for tracking github blog commits

• AI recommended character set for API use

  Reference table of characters to use and what to avoid in an API

• How good is opensource Text to Speech

  description

• Practical explanation of how chatGPT or other Large Language Models (LLM)

  Some resources with practical explanation of how chatGPT or other Large Language Models (LLM)

• How to integrate an llm with your own product catalog with MCP

  Checkout another great tutorial from Jack Herrington on practical web site build.

• How to layout text content for tool technology considerations with the Jobs To Be Done push pull inertia anxiety factors

  Asking AI to help with design of a tabular layout when using and thinking about changing out a technology/tool for another.

• How useful is stripes prefix id approach in api models

  Claude Sonnet v4 thoughts on stripe prefixed id

• OpenAPI Spec generation key tools question

  Vibing with Sonnet 4 about openapi codegen

• Prompt for testing phiosophy

  Tried this testing phiosophy on a small project

• Where is the list of MCP servers

  Where do you find a list of MCP Servers