AI Engineering

NotebookLM has officially been renamed to Gemini Notebook, with all existing notebooks and shared links preserved, and the free tier’s allowances more than enough for small businesses. This article walks through turning scattered operational documents into an SOP brain that employees can query with plain-language questions and that cites its sources, and dives into how the secure cloud computer’s code-execution sandbox and RAG grounding mechanism upgrade computation from probabilistic text generation to verifiable deterministic calculation.

Garfield AI recovered £7,000 in debt at a cost of around £400, proving that repetitive, structured, low-ambiguity legal documents like debt collection letters are the perfect fit for AI automation. This article breaks down the three-layer architecture of template generation, case-law RAG retrieval, and compliance comparison, walks you through building a debt collection letter draft generator with Claude in 30 minutes, and includes a table for judging which legal documents are suitable for AI automation.

GPT-Live can translate while you talk, but to actually pipe it into Zoom or Google Meet so the other side hears it too, you need a virtual audio cable (BlackHole/VB-CABLE), not a second phone. This article breaks down the full setup for both Mac and Windows, and exposes the three bottlenecks - latency, accents, and specialized terminology - to help you decide whether this approach is actually usable in cross-border video meetings today.

Gemini 3.5 Pro is rumored to ship with a 2M token context window, making ‘paste it all in’ a viable option for the first time. This article breaks down the paste-in vs RAG tradeoff across three columns (accuracy, latency, cost), includes a decision table to help one-person companies decide quickly, and flags three things you must think through before pasting sensitive files.

Monthly reports and KPI tracking are routine chores stealing dev time from indie builders. This week’s Excel Copilot update supports natural language workflow descriptions - teach it once, replay it forever. From an indie dev’s perspective: when to use it, how to verify the numbers, and where to draw the data safety line.

x402 officially launched under the Linux Foundation with 40 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, and Google, and with card network endorsement this AI agent payment standard is no longer just a crypto experiment. This article lays out an actionable decision matrix, a minimum viable integration approach, and three must-avoid pitfalls around private keys, payment limits, and retry design, to help you decide whether to switch your payment flow from Stripe right now.

Claude Code creator Boris shares 14 practical tips including initial setup, codebase Q&A inquiry methods, CLAUDE.md configuration, shortcuts, and hidden features, helping developers use AI assistants more efficiently for programming.

The day after submitting to the hackathon I finally had a moment to look back at the whole system. Turned out something surprising — across those 7 days we spent more time thinking about architecture than writing code. Days 9-12 were 4 solid days of talking to my mom, my aunt about real collections scenarios, listing D-001 through D-022 design decisions, drawing drawio v1/v2/v3. Days 13-15 were the only code days. This post is the full design journey — why I picked ‘outstanding balance’ over ‘gross invoice,’ why 9 agents in 3 layers, the 4 hidden cases nobody talks about — all from imagining real conversations with real people on bad days.

Day 2 was Voice Agent day. I wanted a ‘real two-way conversation’ — Sarah should hear the customer say ’next week,’ then push back to ask ’next week which day, and how?’ To make sure she actually worked, I called myself. And immediately hit a bug — I said ‘I need to ask my boss, I’ll email you in 2 days,’ and Sarah treated it as evasion and escalated. I was stunned. Added Phase 3b. Then ran 9 scenarios — all pass. This post is the full story.

I built Recoverflow at a hackathon — an AI collection system for small businesses with cross-border receivables. I found the gap in the middle market: lawyers only take big cases, and collection agencies run every case through the same blunt SOP. The first agent, ‘Pre-flight,’ extracts the contract clauses and routes by outstanding balance (not gross invoice) into three paths: under $3K runs Lite, $3K–$40K runs the full In-Spot pipeline, over $40K we don’t run the system at all and refer you straight to an attorney with a vetted list.