Alessandro Farace

Over the last two months, I've been building my own experimental agent SDK. To get immediate feedback on how the agents were behaving, I built a set of React UI components in Electron and embedded them in a dedicated chat app. But I wasn't trying to build

AI has got me concerned that we've stopped learning how to ride bicycles. Not a literal bicycle but a symbolic bicycle. Bicycles let us move faster than any animal while relying on nothing other than our own motor input. Any tool that amplifies our abilit

It's been over a year running my AI flashcard startup Janus and the reality of solo bootstrapping is a lot harder than I thought. The instruction manuals from successful founders were missing a couple warning labels. Fundamentally, some of the principles

Election of the Year 2024 was described as the largest election year in history. In case you've been living in a log cabin away from newspapers and the internet, there have been votes in the US, UK, India, France, Japan, Pakistan, and Iran. But the one th

File Over App The pen is mightier than the sword, but the manuscript is mightier than the pen, and the file is mightier than the app. I am a devoted Obsidian user. I swear by its philosophy and proselytize the app's benefits to my friends. Its most articu

Central Intelligence I was thinking about the comedy Central Intelligence recently. The one with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson playing the once bullied, obese high schooler turned world-saving agent stud. Oh, and Kevin Hart tags along too. It's not the first