(Continued from: Moving to the Cloud — and Finding the Right Model) By this point the core system was working. GPT-4o-mini was holding context, the product cards were giving customers a tangible output, and the hallucination problem was largely under control. I could have pushed to production and called it done. Instead I built a… Continue reading
(Continued from: What If a Dispensary Had an AI on Staff?) The local build had done its job. I knew the concept worked. I knew what the limitations were. Now I needed something I could actually demo to a dispensary owner without carrying my laptop into the store. The move to the cloud was surprisingly… Continue reading
A new category. I come across things that I feel compelled to play with and it likely doesn’t have anything to do with projects here. The first toy: Soot Spiral. This visual search came across my radar maybe a year ago. I recently re-visited it and was enthralled. Kinda makes me dizzy, but it’s nonetheless… Continue reading
(Continued from the AI Budtender Project) The AI Budtender is a customer-facing assistant that helps cannabis dispensary customers find products, get personalized recommendations, and build shopping lists — all powered by live inventory and purchase history. These are the details of the oft bumpy road that lead to the MVP. The first version was about… Continue reading