Category: gen-ai

  • Effortless LLM Observability: Integrating Langfuse with GenAI Starter

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    Introduction Building production-grade LLM applications means more than just getting answers – it’s about understanding, debugging, and optimizing your chains, agents, and RAG workflows. That’s where Langfuse comes in: a modern observability platform for LLMs, tracing every step and making your AI systems transparent and tunable. In this post, I’ll show you how the GenAI Starter project makes…

  • Learn Generative AI in Your Browser – No Powerful Machine Required!

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    Want to explore Generative AI, but don’t have a high-end computer? With GenAI Starter, you can experiment with LLMs, RAG, and agentic AI – all in your browser, using GitHub Codespaces. No installs, no hardware requirements – just cloud-powered learning!

  • Teaching Your AI Assistant: How Custom Copilot Instructions Transform LLM Development

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    Introduction When building complex AI applications with multiple patterns like RAG, agents, and LLM chains, having context-aware development assistance becomes crucial. This post walks through setting up GitHub Copilot instructions and custom chat modes for a GenAI demo application that showcases LangChain, Ollama, and Streamlit integration patterns. The goal is to create an AI assistant…

  • Simple RAG vs Agentic Approach

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    Overview: I use Ollama to run open source LLM models with various data sources to ask questions and include cited sources. If you would like to try this out on your machine (or try out any of the other examples) you can clone the following github repository: https://github.com/jbsoftware-io/gen-ai-starter Model Used: gemma3:4b Tools: Wikipedia Question: Can…

  • Benefits of Open Source Development for Small Business

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    Overview: I use Ollama to run open source LLM models with various data sources to ask questions and include cited sources. If you would like to try this out on your machine (or try out any of the other examples) you can clone the following github repository: https://github.com/jbsoftware-io/gen-ai-starter Model Used: Mistral:7b Data Source: Web (Brave…

  • Are Open Source LLMs Energy Efficient?

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    Overview: I use Ollama to run open source LLM models with various data sources to ask questions and include cited sources. If you would like to try this out on your machine (or try out any of the other examples) you can clone the following github repository: https://github.com/jbsoftware-io/gen-ai-starter Model Used: Mistral:7b Data Source: Web (Brave…

  • Cloud Architecture for Small Business

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    Overview: I use Ollama to run open source LLM models with various data sources to ask questions and include cited sources. If you would like to try this out on your machine (or try out any of the other examples) you can clone the following github repository: https://github.com/jbsoftware-io/gen-ai-starter Model Used: Mistral:7b Data Source: Web (Brave…

  • Open Source Generative AI Latest Trends

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    Overview: I use Ollama to run open source LLM models with various data sources to ask questions and include cited sources. If you would like to try this out on your machine (or try out any of the other examples) you can clone the following github repository: https://github.com/jbsoftware-io/gen-ai-starter Model Used: Llama 3.2 Data Source: Web…