Austin Attempts: Self Hosting AI

AI Hype 🚀 Over the past year AI hype has gotten out of hand. With the cultral populatiry of OpenAI and the general leap in sucess the space has seen in the past couple of years this hype isn’t unfounded. People outside the tech industry are increasingly recognizing how transformative these technologies can be, potentially displacing jobs on a scale similar to the Industrial Revolution. This is causing a rush by practically every industry to be at the forefront of these developments. I, on the other hand, have been extremly wary of these tools. I tried my best to avoid them unil Nordic SemiConductor added an AI assistant to their Dev Zone. These microcontroller companies have a ton of resources however they are spread out through forums, app notes, white papers, and data sheets. This makes it a pain to locate and process without an FAEs help. This was the first time I used AI and felt it was genuinly useful. The tool would find a relevant response and do its best. It was often wrong, however, it was close enough that somone familiar with the technology could peace together a solution. ...

February 7, 2025 Â· Austin Guevara

Austin Attempts: Making a Wedding Ring

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January 27, 2025 Â· Austin Guevara

Austin Attempts: Writing a Blog

Why did I start this? Honestly, I blame this entire journey on two people: Beau and Chris. As 2024 came to an end, I decided to focus on improving my coding skills. For the first time ever, I participated in Advent of Code and to make it even more challenging, I completed it entirely in a language that was completely new to me—Zig.1 This sparked a series of tangents, including learning RayLib, attempting to create a browser-based game, and eventually diving into Go to build an HTTP server. ...

January 8, 2025 Â· Austin Guevara