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Latest episodes

Nov 19, 2024 • 59min
10 AI Tools That Actually Deliver Results (ft. Ray Fernando)
Join us for an in-depth conversation with Ray Fernando, a former Apple engineer turned live streamer, as we explore the world of AI-powered tools and transcription. From his journey into AI to his experiences with various models and tools, Ray shares his insights on building app experiences, overcoming difficulties, and the importance of user experience.
Ty and Mike give demos for:
A productivity AI coach that uses a webcam to track posture and focus
A tool called Fuzzy Puffin that uses natural language to interact with a pip package
Keep up with Ray
https://www.rayfernando.ai/
https://raytranscribes.com/
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10 Technologies
Claude - https://claude.ai/new
AI Studio - https://aistudio.google.com/
v0 - https://v0.dev/
Ray Transcribes - https://raytranscribes.com/
Cursor - https://www.cursor.com/
moondream - https://github.com/vikhyat/moondream
LlamaIndex - https://www.llamaindex.ai/
Llamafile - https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llama...
Hermes 3 - https://nousresearch.com/hermes3/
Tool Use AI - https://github.com/ToolUse/tool-use-ai

Nov 12, 2024 • 44min
Build Your AI Marketing Machine
In this episode, Mike Bird and Ty Fiero explore the exciting possibilities of AI in marketing, discussing the potential benefits and challenges of using artificial intelligence to revolutionize the field. They demonstrate how to use Obsidian to generate viral tweets and create a marketing agency using the OpenAI Swarm framework.
In this episode, we're joined by Murat Koylan, a prompt engineer and AI marketer who shares his expertise. Murat emphasizes the importance of understanding the underlying mechanics of language models and highlights the need for human evaluation in AI-generated content.
Links:
LinkedIn:
https://linkedin.com/in/muratcan-koylan
The content reverse engineering prompt:
https://github.com/muratcankoylan/prompts/blob/main/ContentAnalyzer
AI Case Study Analysis Agent:
https://github.com/muratcankoylan/AI-Investigator
Stanford Storm Project:
https://storm.genie.stanford.edu/
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https://x.com/youraimarketer

Nov 5, 2024 • 1h 17min
Stop Wasting Time. AI Tools and Workflows To Be More Efficient
This week, Jason McGhee joins Tool Use. A CTO and Co-Founder, he shares his guiding principles for building fast and making things that matter.
Ty shares a tool for leveraging A.I. to prioritize your tasks. Mike shares an A.I. activity tracker. Both are open source and free to use.
To get the free AI tools, open your terminal and run:pip install tool-use-ai
Links:
https://github.com/jasonjmcghee
https://productiveadventures.substack...
https://github.com/ToolUse/tool-use-ai
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Oct 29, 2024 • 33min
Save 10+ Hours Each Week With these FREE AI Tools
Install the free Tool Use CLI tool with
pip install tool-use-ai
This week is just Mike and Ty going over tools they use to save time. Get through your never-ending reading list with NotebookLM. You can use Claude Computer Use to allow AI to automate a computer. And the Tool Use pip package is going to allow you to quickly use the tools we cover in the show as well as build your tools faster than ever.
NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/
Claude Computer Use: https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-mo...
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Oct 22, 2024 • 39min
Automate Your Desktop to Save Time With These FREE Tools
Use A.I. on your computer to revolutionize your workflow!
This episode of Tool Use discusses how to leverage AI on your desktop, with a focus on AI-powered process automation. We feature three demos, including OpenAdapt, Plock, and ScreenPipe. Our guest, Richard Abrich, founder of OpenAdapt, shares his insights on the potential of AI to automate repetitive tasks and improve workflows. Ty gives us a bonus demo of Pinokio too!
Keep up with OpenAdapt:
https://openadapt.ai/
https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI
https://x.com/OpenAdaptAI
Links:
Plock: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/plock
Pinokio: https://pinokio.computer/
Screenpipe: https://github.com/mediar-ai/screenpipe
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Oct 15, 2024 • 44min
Become a 10x Engineer With These AI Tools
Use A.I. Tools to maximize your development workflow!
Jake Koenig joins Tool Use to teach us about Mentat and share his perspective on how software engineering will evolve in the AI age.
Ty shows us Atuin, a much better CLI history tool, a helpful CLI command correcting script called WTF, and an unexpected appearance from one other tool.
Mike shows how to use Aider and how it fully implemented a refactor on his AI Toolkit.
Check out Mentat: https://mentat.ai/
Atuin: https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin
wtf: https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/op...
Aider: https://aider.chat/
AI Toolkit: https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/ai-to...
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Oct 9, 2024 • 54min
Use AI to Make Beautiful User Interfaces
Discover the secret to creating stunning websites!
Dillion Verma joins Tool Use to teach us how to use v0 and MagicUI. Building beautiful websites and apps has never been so easy and incredibly fast!
Mike shows how easy it is to use Gradio to showcase and test your AI models and APIs.
Ty builds a (very good attempt at) generative UI system to build full UIs using only MagicUI components.
Check out MagicUI: https://pro.magicui.design/?ref=tooluse
Links from Dillion:
V0 Cheatsheet: https://dillionverma.notion.site/V0-d...
Jordan Hughes: https://x.com/jordanphughes
Untitled UI: https://www.untitledui.com/
MagicUI on X: https://x.com/magicuidesign
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Oct 2, 2024 • 38min
How do AI Engineers Use AI Tools?
Start building your own AI tools today!
Join us as we take a step back and explore the world of building AI tools. This week, we're joined by Jason Kneen, an app engineer turned AI engineer, who shares his expertise and insights.
Subscribe to Jason's Twitter: https://x.com/jasonkneen
Episode Highlights:
Ty demonstrates the power of Cursor IDE and Claude, with a focus on Claude projects and Cursor rules
Mike showcases his Alacritty terminal setup, including functions, aliases, Alacritty hints, and using Automator to turn scripts into programs
Jason walks us through using Krea for AI art generation
Stay tuned for our extended conversation episode where we'll dive into deeper discussions on AI tool development!
Code:
https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/dotfileshttps://github.com/tyfiero
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Sep 25, 2024 • 41min
What Are Techfren's Favourite AI Tools?
We're joined by AJ, also known as @techfren in the tech world. We discuss open source coding tools and demo some open source infrastructure projects with the goal of helping the open source AI tool ecosystem.
GitHub Actions - 01:06@MikeBirdTech builds AI powered Github Actions
PR Writer - writes a PR title and description based on commit messages
TODO Issue Creator - creates GitHub issues from TODO comments
Code - https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/ai-to...
Get a recommendation on which license is best for your project
PIP package - https://pypi.org/project/license-sele...
@tyfiero creates License Selector
Say hello to Techfren
https://techfren.net/
Make your own Stack repo
https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/stack
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Sep 18, 2024 • 50min
The Future of Voice Agents with Killian Lucas
Join us for this week's episode of Tool Use as we dive into the exciting world of voice intelligence. We're joined by special guest Killian Lucas, creator of Open Interpreter, as we explore the latest developments in AI tools.
We discuss the latest advancements in voice intelligence, including voice-controlled agents and speech-to-speech systems. Killian shares his personal story of getting into the AI space and building Open Interpreter, an open-source project that allows users to run code on their computers using natural language. He also shows a demo of making a voice assistant patiently wait for its turn to talk.
Shallowgram - open source and local version of Deepgram
01 Voices - give your 01 a custom voice and persona from a single prompt
Check out Open Interpreter
https://openinterpreter.com
Code:
Shallowgram: https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/ai-to...
01 Voices: https://github.com/tyfiero/tool-use
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