Friday Finds Post, 2025-03-07
Happy Friday - AI Agent, AI Engineering, and LLM articles you might enjoy
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Hi Friends,
Happy Friday.
Here are some links (and descriptions) for some things that I found interesting.
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Generate MCP servers from your docs
Everything that you need to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is already available in your docs. As MCP becomes more widely adopted by the day, we wanted to make it easy for everyone to build that bridge between AI and your APIs. That’s why we’ve launched the ability to generate MCP servers directly from your documentation…Managing Secrets in MCP Servers
As MCP servers gain popularity in unifying the interactions between LLM clients and various tools/services, they're becoming a focal point in the security architecture of AI applications. At Infisical, we've been watching this trend closely, and noticed a critical aspect that's often overlooked: secrets management…Stanford Guest Lecture 11 CS329A by Michele Catasta (President, Replit): Coding Agents
Launching Replit Agent v1 and v2 in the last 6 months taught me a lot of lessons. I'm a big fan of building in public, so I went back to Stanford for a day and gave a guest lecture on Coding Agents 🧵…Jeff Clune Guest Lecture 6 CS329A by Prof. Jeff Clune:Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models
I really enjoyed guest lecturing in the Stanford CS Course "Self-Improving AI Agents." The talk is online, titled "Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models" (w/ more emphasis on the AI Scientist and ADAS than prior versions)…Code Navigation for AI SWEs: What We've Learned So Far
We explored various approaches to code navigation for AI SWEs and share our findings on what works and what doesn't…At Engines, we're building the best platform to run AI SWEs. Our first launch is a purpose-built code navigation system. We want to document and share our learnings as we build so here's a guide to we've discovered so far…Just like humans, AI SWEs need to be able to easily navigate a codebase…
🔬 Defog Introspect: Deep Research for your internal data
Introspect is a service that does data-focused deep research for structured data. It understands your structured data (databases or CSV/Excel files), unstructured data (PDFs), and can query the web to get additional context…Building AI Apps for Real-World Use Cases: From Basics to Production
In this 3-hour hands-on workshop, Ravin Kumar (Deep Mind, Google, ex-Tesla) and Hugo Bowne-Anderson (Vanishing Gradients) will show you how to build and improve a simple AI application, simulating the complete lifecycle of AI app development: 1️⃣ Evaluation and Tuning: Set up a basic app, create evaluation sets, and iterate on prompts to improve outputs for simple chatbot. 2️⃣ First Pass Optimization: Learn how to evaluate your application for speed up inference and reduce costs while keeping the app efficient and scalable. 3️⃣ Iteration and Model Selection: Take the next step to improve your application by, identifying failure points, and exploring alternative solutions…An event bus for ai agents
every automation system has some form of an “event bus”, whether explicit/implicit. it lets us use vocabulary like “when a new user signs up, send them an email”. the naive way of implementing this is to add the email sending logic in the http handler where a user signs up. but the professional way is to push an event on to a queue, and to have a something (usually a workflow) consume that queue event and send that email. this gives us retries, decoupling, all the good things queues give you. you might see where I’m going with this…Thanks for reading :)
Hope you had a great week and I’ll see you next Friday!
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Sebastian Gutierrez
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