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AI Simplified: Understanding LLMs, Workflows, and Agents

AI Buzzwords Demystified If you’ve been following AI developments lately, you’ve probably encountered terms like LLMs, RAG, ReAct, and AI Agents. While these technologies are transforming how we interact with AI, the terminology can be overwhelming. In this post, I’ll break down these concepts into digestible explanations with practical examples. Let’s start with the foundation and progressively build up to more complex systems. Large Language Models (LLMs): The Foundation At the core of today’s AI revolution are Large Language Models (LLMs). Popular applications such as ChatGPT and Claude are built on top of these powerful models. They excel at generating and manipulating text based on the prompts we provide.

  • AI Concepts
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • LLM Interaction
  • AI Workflows
  • Language Models
  • RAG
  • AI Agents
Saturday, May 24, 2025 Read
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The One Simple Secret to Effective AI Prompting

Forget Everything You’ve Learned About AI Prompting There’s a sea of articles out there about “how to talk to AI” or “the perfect prompt structure.” Frameworks, formulas, special keywords—it can get overwhelming. But what if I told you that you could forget all of it? That’s right. All those complicated prompting techniques might be unnecessary, because there’s one fundamental principle that works better than anything else: AI excels at roleplaying.

  • AI Prompting
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • LLM Interaction
  • AI Communication
  • Language Models
  • Roleplaying
  • AI Productivity
Sunday, May 11, 2025 Read
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Leveraging LLMs for Business Impact: Part 2 - Building an AI Data Engineer Agent

Introduction In Part 1 of this series, we explored the theoretical foundations of Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and vector databases. Now, it’s time to put theory into practice. This is going to be a long read, so grab some coffee, and one (couple) of your favorite biscuits. One use case for leveraging LLM’s, is creating of a Agent - a Senior Data Engineer AI that automatically reviews Pull Requests in your data engineering projects. This agent will be that nit picky Data Engineer that enforces SQL formatting standards, ensure naming and data type consistency, validate data quality checks, and suggest improvements based on best practices. By integrating this into your GitHub workflow, you can maintain higher code quality, accelerate onboarding for new team members, and reduce the burden of manual code reviews.

  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • AI Agents
  • Code Review
  • Data Quality
  • DBT
  • SQL Standards
Saturday, March 8, 2025 Read
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Leveraging LLMs for Business Impact: Part 1 - Theory and Foundations

Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as transformative tools with the potential to revolutionize business operations across industries. While the hype around these technologies is intense, understanding their practical applications and underlying mechanisms is crucial for organizations seeking to leverage them effectively. This two-part series aims to demystify LLMs and their associated technologies, starting with the theoretical foundations in Part 1, followed by a hands-on implementation guide using AWS services in Part 2.

  • LLM
  • RAG
  • Vector Databases
  • AI Business Applications
  • Data Architecture
Friday, March 7, 2025 Read