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Thoughts on gemini

Will Schenk April 4, 2025

Thoughts on gemini

Despite popular narratives about Google lagging in AI, their Gemini models reveal engineering excellence that's hard to ignore when you strip away the conservative product decisions and UI polish. From the lightweight yet powerful Gemma 3 to the multimodal capabilities of Gemini 2.5, Google's models demonstrate a level of speed, precision, and fundamental understanding that suggests they're not playing catch-up—they're just being cautious.

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Schema-Driven AI: Better User Experiences with Structured Output

Will Schenk March 30, 2025

Schema-Driven AI: Better User Experiences with Structured Output

Transforms chatting from simple text generators into powerful data processing engines, enabling extraction of organized information from PDFs, audio files, and more. Here are some practical techniques for building, including audio analysis, pdf data extraction and conversation state management, showcasing how constraint-driven outputs can power rich user experiences.

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Moral Vibe Check

Will Schenk March 24, 2025

Moral Vibe Check

Technical correctness and meaningful insight: well-formatted, detailed AI responses can mask a fundamental lack of understanding—a "raving lunatic" hidden behind impressive form. Maybe P-doom is less about malice and more of making us intellectually poorer by substituting form for substance, facts for understanding, and technical accuracy for wisdom.

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Image Gen on Apple Silicon

Will Schenk March 21, 2025

Image Gen on Apple Silicon

We've got the apple silicon, lets download some models and make some pictures

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Recipes big and small

Will Schenk March 18, 2025

Recipes big and small

The hardest thing about living in the future is that we're figuring it out as we go. Here's some notes of things to play with.

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Exposing Services with MCP

Will Schenk March 15, 2025

Exposing Services with MCP

Model Context Protocol bridges the gap between AI models and your applications. Learn how defining simple tools with descriptions and parameters lets Claude intelligently combine services without explicit instructions.

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Agentic YOLO with Warp, Cursor, and Claude

Will Schenk March 7, 2025

Agentic YOLO with Warp, Cursor, and Claude

What happens when you let AI help you think through and build your ideas, with minimal supervision and maximum trust? What does it mean to be a programmer? Are we closer or further from thought-stuff?

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Clipboards are eating the world

Will Schenk February 25, 2025

Clipboards are eating the world

The untold story of how your computer's clipboard sees itself as the essential bridge between humans and AI tools in the creative process. Through its eyes, we witness the journey of how digital projects come together through countless transfers between different AI services.

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The New Touch Interface

Will Schenk February 11, 2025

The New Touch Interface

The real killer apps of smartphones weren't the early games but became things like group chats and video calls that fundamentally changed how we communicate. Similarly, while we're currently amazed by AI's capabilities, we're still discovering how these tools will meaningfully integrate into our lives.

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Tools for thinking. Everyday AI.

Will Schenk January 30, 2025

Tools for thinking. Everyday AI.

From building nuclear fusors to probing Vatican AI doctrine, this exploration reveals how AI tools are reshaping our daily intellectual work in surprisingly practical ways. Through examples of interfacing with databases, analyzing legal documents, and diving into deep research rabbit holes, we see how AI assistants are becoming intuitive research companions that expand our ability to quickly understand and synthesize complex information.

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How I classify models

Will Schenk January 21, 2025

How I classify models

Small models are smart yet limited in knowledge; foundation models possess both deep understanding and extensive knowledge but lack structured problem-solving approaches. Educated models like DeepResearch excel by combining learned reasoning processes with large memory capacities, enabling them to adapt effectively to complex tasks while handling vast information instantaneously.

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AI for research: DeepResearch a clear winner

Will Schenk January 12, 2025

AI for research: DeepResearch a clear winner

Asking the tough questions: DeepResearch excels in depth and comprehensiveness, while o1, Sonnet 3.5, and DeepSeek with DeepThought provide comparable results for complex inquiries. Smaller models like phi4 and llama3.2 are deemed inadequate for intricate topics.

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Learning on the go with NotebookLM

Will Schenk January 9, 2025

Learning on the go with NotebookLM

By utilizing NotebookLM, an AI model capable of generating audio summaries and interactive conversations, you can create customized podcasts on-the-go. You can also join the conversation.

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Making hard things easier

Will Schenk December 15, 2024

Making hard things easier

Explore how generative AI-based tools can revolutionize the way we work, making creative tasks more accessible and efficient for both novices and experts, while also highlighting the importance of critical thinking and creativity in the face of automation.

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Welcome to The Focus AI

Will Schenk November 29, 2024

Welcome to The Focus AI

Let me tell you a bit about what we do here, a personal journey from cofounding a software development company to exploring the revolutionary potential of generative AI and how it's transforming the way humans interact with knowledge and information.

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Slicing up a design from figma

Will Schenk November 27, 2024

Slicing up a design from figma

In this hands-on comparison, three coding tools - Cursor, Aider, and v0 - are put to the test as they attempt to replicate a design from Figma into functional HTML and CSS code, revealing their strengths, weaknesses, and quirks.

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