AD and AI

The strength and weakness of modern LLMs is their non-deterministic nature.

From individual developers running out of tokens on a daily basis to Uber famously burning through the yearly budget in just four months, AI cost in both tokens and dollars is at the center of attention.

Choosing the right AI model is now a well-recognized problem.

My husband and I started experimenting with AI about six months ago.

While I was focusing my own experiments on AI as a service and paid APIs, my husband went in a completely different direction.

This is a story about a failed attempt, not a successful one.

Not long ago, I created Virtual Alexandra, a chatbot that answers questions based on my writing and instructions.

After a holiday break full of travel and family affairs, I am finally back to blogging.

Now that I had the game stabilized and feature-complete, it was time for code review.

The beauty of the diary blog is that I keep making new discoveries while writing my posts.