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Attend My Upcoming AI Talks for Boston AI Week

I'm hosting and speaking at three Boston AI Week events: a developer roundtable on architecting with AI, a hands-on fine-tuning workshop, and a practitioner talk on running parallel coding agents with Conductor.

This Website Now Has Tools for AI Agents

OpenAI just shipped WebMCP support in the ChatGPT desktop app, so I added six tools to this site. Your agent can now search my blog, check my speaking schedule, and even restyle the page while you read it. Here are prompts to try.

Practical Context Engineering

Context is a finite resource, and in a web or mobile app you're the one deciding how to spend it. Here's how I think about curating context in apps people actually use.

Introducing the World's First Generative UI Web Browser

The world's first Generative UI web browser repaints every page you visit in real time as felt, clay, carved wood, paint, or whatever material you choose.

How to Create a Custom AI Model with Fine-Tuning

A start-to-finish walkthrough of fine-tuning an open-weight model on home-lab GPUs: baseline evals, synthetic data, QLoRA, quantization, and serving.

Building WGHTLFT: A Rails + SwiftUI Weightlifting Tracker

How WGHTLFT pairs a Rails 8 API with a native SwiftUI iOS app for lifting, programs, 3D equipment visualization, Apple Watch, and Siri shortcuts.

What Happens When Your App Prototype Goes Viral On The Internet

A prototype I built went viral. Here's what happened next...

Comments Are A Very Underrated AI Coding Tool

When you’re coding with agents, the most reliable steering wheel is a well-placed comment in the code’s line of sight.

Why I Choose Ruby on Rails in the AI Coding Era

The AI coding era has changed the calculus in ways that are only starting to become clear, and Rails benefits from those changes more than almost any other framework. Convention over configuration turns out to be exactly what a language model needs.

Introducing Agent Gateway for Ruby on Rails

A small Rails engine gem that gives AI agents structured, read-only access to the data you choose to expose.

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Jesse Waites
Jesse Waites, Technologist & Software Architect, Hiker, Rock & Ice Climber