Just Five Mins!

Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).AI Skills - worth reading up on yourself to power your AI with tried and tested directions. Impeccable takes a frontend skill developed by Anthropic (Claude etc.) and enhances it in a very nice way.Not sure what this is all about? take a listen and find out :)Here is the github repoExamples and a bit more info here Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).Before it was computer viruses, now it is AI manipulation, prompt injection and worse!So, even if you are building custom GPTs, chatbots and certainly if you are a company providing AI chat interfaces, you might want to check out promptfoo.I have seen demos of so many different platforms leaking PII (personal identifiable information) and worse, credit card details, API keys and goodness knows what!Seems to be the new frontier to content with.It is quite sad really that we have all of this technology, power and opportunities and yet human nature seems to want to create things to harm and destroy - yes, I am a little naive it seems!!Anyway, take a listen - even if you are building personal AI projects… worth understanding. Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Okay, so this is a little niche perhaps, but if you are a coder or even a bit of a coder (vibing!), then this new feature is pretty cool and at first look: you might miss it or think, “Well it’s just another browser, isn’t it?” But the new integrated browser in VS Code is pretty phenomenal especially if you’re a front-end developer. Check out the episode and the link below for further information. Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).You can check out the video here showing a bit more detail Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

So, we are all inherently lazy I guess, so why keep typing on the keyboard? I guess it is ingrained a bit however, what about actually putting AI to work to help with this?Some links from the show:Wispr (TBH, my favourite)TypelessHey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

So, OpenClaw made a splash and hyped up things to frenzy level about AI agent assistants. n8n is still an amazing platform - free open source too, and you can do pretty much everything with n8n as I am explaining in this podcast. n8n is a graphical workflow/AI tool but you still need some JavaScript/JSON knowledge IMHO!Enter a more simple approach that just uses Claude Code CLI as the brain along with some other free resources to add memory, text embeddings (meaning of words etc.) and I have a completely locked down mini virtual private server (512mb RAM, 1 vCore) running on AWS Lightsail for around $5 (free for 3 months). You can run this on your own local linux box too or even in Docker of course or anywhere a service offers linux servers (everywhere then!).I have hooked in:* Telegram: as my main chatbot interface which can accepts voice as well as text* Twilio: for a real telephone number to talk/SMS with (optional, but why not!)* Official Google MCP for calendars/email* Official Microsoft MCP for my MS calendar/email* I “could” easily hook into things like SalesForce, HubSpot, Slack and millions of other services.I am currently building an Alexa skill (even though Alexa+ is coming) to give Alexa a real brain and hooks into the above.All of this running on a very basic locked down linux VM :)Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Well, if you haven’t heard of “ClaudeBot”, “MoltBot” or now “OpenClaw”, then shame on you! You have once again missed the hype train ;)(probably not a bad thing, I think people out there have a real life?)Since recording this episode, I have seen some great examples where peeps have taken the idea of OpenClaw and created more secure (??) options using n8n or even Claude Code with Agent mode… this is something I am really interested in and will no doubt have a show out soon about that!For now, sit back, relax, and watch those 12-13 minutes evaporate before your very eyes :)Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

You need skills… from making coffee (decent coffee at least!) to whatever you do in your day job. Skills for AI has been introduced by the claude folks Anthropic. Skills are really useful and powerful, and in essence, just a set of folders in your code project (but not limited to code! could be a folder for marketing and what not). You can define certain aspects, detailed specifications including code/text/document snippets.What really makes skills efficient is they a progressively loaded as needed. None of this massive context window chomping through your AI subscription tokens!Anyway, further info below in the links:Skills, Instructions and MoarAnthropic Skills InfoHey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

It has been a little while… but I am back! and as ever, the subject is AI - of course it is!This one became (unintentionally!) a bit of a weekend ramble…Some links from the podcast:GitHub Copilot - get all of the main AI models in one place and for $10 :)Traycer AI - Sure, VS Code and other platforms all have skills and planning mode, but Traycer goes a wee bit further…VS Code AI Toolkit - Seriously, the stuff you can do here and play around with is awesome!Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

The ebb and flow… “this is great”… “this is bad…” the neverending movement. Well, there isn’t anything wrong with Javascript frameworks… use what you need and what you love. However, given the modern state of Javascript (and Typescript if that is your thing), do you really need the frameworks? What about just plain web components? web components have been around for years and so has LIT (link here) to help build web components (reactive and all that good stuff). LIT is really just a small library (not a framework) weighing in at just 5kb.Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Okay, it might sound a bit sad recording a JFM on Christmas day, but there we go :)Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

So, where is all of this vibe coding taking us? Serious question, and I am not knocking the whole vibe coding thing - it does really does help anyone build apps, but what kind of apps? and how are they working in production/live?Some links from the show:LovableReplitGoogle Antigravity - actually, it is a downloadable app… I might have mixed up Google Firebase studio! :) which, in turn, is probably Windsurf now Google own it :)Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Here is the link from Anthropic about the topic being discussed.Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!) Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Well, it is one of those rambling weekends again!Link to the research paper here about TRM (Tiny Recursive Model)Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Well, more agent stuff then! but what are you all doing with these AI agents?Open AI just released agent builder. If you believe their documentation, codex (their coding AI offering) wrote 80% of the agent builder itself… if that is indeed true, it is rather amazing.However, building out agent solutions other than hobby projects or small PoC’s, is probably more involved. That is where A2A protocol comes in from Google. Along with MCP (model context protocol), it provides a complimentary protocol to handle the authorisation/authentication and so on between agents.Anyway, take a listen for more!Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Who doesn’t like FREE ?Well, JetBrains (the folks who created WebStorm, PyCharm and Rider etc.) have now released one of my favourite database management tools free; DataGrip.Free for non-commercial use, but what a great tool to get across. So many different databases you can connect to not to mention a more lovely experience connecting to SAP HANA :)Read the blog post here and downloadHey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Okay, a little experiment. Okay, I have been researching how LLMs work with vectors and how AI search works for a while now. But rather than me warble on for a while (and more than 5 mins!), I have tried an AI approach to explain the research ;)In fairness, I did listen back to this, and personally I was quite impressed. The explanation about quantization methods was particularly useful.If vectors, AI search and quantization mean nothing to you - take a listen :)Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

🧠 What RAG Actually DoesRAG enhances LLMs by retrieving relevant external information (e.g. from documents or databases) at query time, then feeding that into the prompt. This allows the LLM to answer with up-to-date or domain-specific knowledge without retraining.💸 Is RAG Expensive?Yes, it can be — especially if:* You repeatedly reprocess large documents for every query.* You use high token counts to include raw content in prompts.* You rely on real-time parsing of files (e.g. PDFs or Excel) without preprocessing.This is where vector storage and embedding optimization come in.📦 Role of Vector StorageInstead of reloading and reprocessing documents every time:* Documents are chunked into smaller segments.* Each chunk is converted into a vector embedding.* These embeddings are stored in a vector database (e.g. FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate).* At query time, the user’s question is embedded and matched against stored vectors to retrieve relevant chunks.This avoids reprocessing the original files and drastically reduces cost and latency⚙️ Efficiency StrategiesHere’s how to make RAG more efficient:StrategyDescriptionBenefitVector StorageStore precomputed embeddingsAvoids repeated parsing and embeddingANN IndexingUse Approximate Nearest Neighbor searchFast retrieval from large datasetsQuantizationCompress embeddings (e.g. float8, int8)Reduces memory footprint with minimal accuracy lossDimensionality ReductionUse PCA or UMAP to reduce vector sizeSpeeds up search and lowers storage costContextual CompressionFilter retrieved chunks before sending to LLMReduces token usage and cost Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Design for UI/UX is obviously an art form, but can AI do as good a job or better? or as the case may well be, using AI to help with the tedious stuff?UX PilotFigmaHey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Okay, AI agent automation is everywhere and so are MCPs (Model Context Protocol) to allow you to connect to anything and everything via AI. However, this still needs some technical know-how, even in the low-code offerings.But what if you have a complete virtual AI employee? and better yet, where it can work with your existing applications seamlessly - even older ERP systems or applications that have no API or external connections?Let’s take a listen to find out more!Warmwind OSWarmwind OS introThis is a deeper dive into Warmwind OSHey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

So, a slightly boring episode but surprisingly useful, I think. Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe