• Build Your Own NotebookLM: Make Your PDFs Talk

    Problem: Knowledge lives in PDFs; documentation, research, specifications, guides. Reading is passive and sequential. What if you could transform that static text into engaging dialogue and listen while commuting, exercising, or working? This post explores how to build a production-ready PDF-to-Podcast pipeline using LangChain, Ollama for local intelligent script generation, and Microsoft edge-tts for neural voice synthesis. The Architecture: Three-Stage…

  • Beyond the Toolbox: Building Reliable Agent Playbooks with MCP

    Giving an LLM Agent a toolbox full of raw tools is a great first step, but without proper guidance, the Agent is left guessing how to use them efficiently. This forces the model to reinvent the workflow every time, leading to unpredictable results and inconsistent performance. In this post, we explore how to bridge this gap using Model Context Protocol…

  • Responsible AI Use: Save the Planet One Prompt at a Time

    I have to start by saying I’m a massive fan of AI. I’ve used it over the last few years as a foundational tool. From accelerating complex coding workflows and distilling hours of meeting notes to generating acceptance criteria for new features. The value it’s added has been genuinely disruptive. In fact, our team has been so efficiently enabled that…

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