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🔌 Bring your own AI
At a recent industry event, I learned about Lattice Prompt. This tool spins up a local MCP server. You can connect to it from any AI tool, such as Claude, which then drives the Lattice FPGA design tools. I like the approach Lattice took. Th…
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🧠 Context is everything
In conversation, I find myself saying: “what is the context of your comment?” At times we find ourselves responding before we really understand something. AI does the same thing – it just spouts off, even if it does not understand your cont…
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📝 Document "why" not "how"
Be kind to others (and your future self) and document why you did something. AI is pretty good at generating the “how” any time you need it, but only you know the “why” because you have that context.
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📁 The file dilemma
There is this movement against files in most disciplines. Files are hard to manage, track, version, and secure (unless you use Git). Thus, a lot of tools have moved to SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications in the cloud. Jon Hirschtick a…
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📧 Effective email is either a pointer or notification
Email is the only decentralized communication platform that has widespread usage. And this is more amazing considering it was invented in 1971. Email is an amazing technology and has stood the test of time. However, there are challenges wit…