Three Months with AI: Building, Coding, and Contributing
Three Months with AI: From Experiment to Daily Workflow Over the past three months, I’ve been intentionally exploring how AI can fit into my software development workflow. Here’s what I learned. Building with AI: The Prototype Experiment My initial foray into AI tooling was building a prototype to understand the fundamentals. I spent about 6 hours creating ca-bhfuil, a simple experiment in combining multiple AI components: LangChain and LangGraph as the agent framework Ollama for local LLM hosting sqlite-vec as a basic vector database for RAG experimentation The result was a very simple prototype using hardcoded data to demonstrate storing commit messages in a vector database, prompting an LLM to use RAG to retrieve relevant data, and generating responses. You can see an example response in the commit message. ...