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| Title | Episode | Published | Category | Domain | Tool Type | Preview |
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| Rapid Agent Iteration | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Agents built with LangChain Agent Builder can produce near-correct outputs on the first pass, requiring only minor tweaks and easy updates over time. |
| Demoing Email Agent | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom Spencer shares that they have deployed and demoed multiple agents, including an email assistant built with Agent Builder, on their own LangSmith s... |
| HubSpot Connector Failure | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | When querying HubSpot pipeline projections via a connector, the model misread a field format and returned only 1% of expected deal value, highlighting... |
| DevOps Complexity Anecdote | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | After struggling to write MCP servers correctly for OpenAI, Cameron celebrates that the new developer mode now simplifies custom connector integration... |
| Frustration with Tool Quotas | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tool usage is constrained by credit-based pricing, leading to limited monthly tool calls and development friction. |
| MCP Deployment Challenge | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Devops | - | Tom Spencer recounts struggling to find turnkey cloud providers for deploying Polygon MCP servers to make chat-based market data tools accessible on m... |
| Amazon Layoff Scope | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | - | - | Tom Spencer notes Amazon announced layoffs of 30,000 employees, representing roughly 2% of its workforce and largely affecting middle management. |
| AWS Outages Spike | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | - | - | Cameron Rohn recalls Primogen’s tweet showing a spike in AWS outages, illustrating potential reliability impacts following staff cuts. |
| Betting on Google AI | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom mentions his bet on Google’s AI as paying off, with Gemini achieving 600–650 million DAUs versus OpenAI’s 800 million. |
| Avoiding Conferences in Texas | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | - | - | Tom humorously shares his anecdote of traveling to every Texas city except Cameron’s to avoid him. |
| DGX Underutilization | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | Despite acquiring a powerful NVIDIA DGX, Cameron humorously admits he hasn't been able to leverage its full capabilities since last week. |
| Enable AI Summit Fireside | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Participated in a fireside chat at Enable's AI summit where Cameron shared his transition from managed services to AI-focused infrastructure discussio... |
| Community Fine-Tuning Kickoff | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Saw the community rapidly creating fine-tunes on the newly released Minimax M2, illustrating early grassroots innovation around open models. |
| Agentic Optimization Challenge | Ep 20 - The build - Claude Skills, minimax m2, LangChain Agent Builder, Options trading MCP. | 11/2/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom faced a real-world challenge optimizing a light agentic tool at work, driving his interest in prompt templates and LangChain’s Agent Builder. |
| Beach Promo Mismatch | Ep 19 - The week that was atlastic in AI. DGX Spark first thoughts demo, and Deepseek OCR oh my! | 10/26/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | While demoing an AI-generated Australian beach promo, the team realized the output resembled generic coastal landscapes rather than the specific targe... |
| Venice Beach Promo Demo | Ep 19 - The week that was atlastic in AI. DGX Spark first thoughts demo, and Deepseek OCR oh my! | 10/26/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | In minutes, Cameron built and ran a demo agent that uses speech input, location insights, and video templates to auto-generate a promo reel for Venice... |
| DGX Inference Experience | Ep 19 - The week that was atlastic in AI. DGX Spark first thoughts demo, and Deepseek OCR oh my! | 10/26/2025 | Stories | Testing | - | Tom ran DeepSeek OCR on his NVIDIA DGX for local inference and is exploring using it as a testbed for future fine-tuning experiments. |
| RAM Upgrade Anecdote | Ep 19 - The week that was atlastic in AI. DGX Spark first thoughts demo, and Deepseek OCR oh my! | 10/26/2025 | Stories | - | - | The jump from 256 MB to 512 MB of RAM at historically high cost illustrates how revolutionary hardware leaps feel until they become the new normal. |
| 13-hour OCR Run | Ep 19 - The week that was atlastic in AI. DGX Spark first thoughts demo, and Deepseek OCR oh my! | 10/26/2025 | Stories | - | - | Tom shares that running the OCR dataset of 1,600 PNG images on his local device took about 13 hours, illustrating the compute resource demands for lar... |
| DGX Spark Setup | Ep 19 - The week that was atlastic in AI. DGX Spark first thoughts demo, and Deepseek OCR oh my! | 10/26/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | I unboxed and connected my DGX Spark via RDP, using a guitar wah-wah pedal as a makeshift stand to show its compact size on video. |
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