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High-school friends create AI companion for mental wellness

More than two decades after they met in high school in Jamaica and became friends, Rene Myrie and Francine Forbes have combined their professional knowledge to create Choobi, an artificial intelligence-powered mental wellness companion.

We haven't written up this one. Jamaica Gleaner has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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Debugging a Flaky LLM Pipeline: Timeouts, Truncation, and a 40-Line Probe

The failure had nothing to do with the free server, and everything to do with two assumptions I had baked into my harness.

  • Batch job processed 40 requests, then returned 200 with empty content for next 3-4 requests
  • ReadTimeout occurred after 30-second hang, indicating real issue with input length
  • Fixed context-window overflow and dead keep-alive connection in author's harness

Audit the Server, Not the Model: A Free-Tier Test for AI Coding Tools

The model decides what the tool says, but the server decides what the tool does, and most developers audit the first and ignore the second.

  • Server performance crucial for AI coding tools to execute generated code
  • Free server audit evaluates tool's capabilities and reliability
  • Metrics include time to first edit, run, and error-to-fix cycles

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