AI

Hands-on guides to LLMs, agents, prompt engineering, and the AI tools Botmonster runs every day for real work, not demos.

MCP vs. A2A: the two protocols powering the agentic web

MCP connects agents to tools and data sources. A2A handles agent-to-agent messaging and task delegation. The two base protocols of the agentic web.

Build an offline AI research assistant that ingests PDFs and notes, then answers with cited sources using Ollama and ChromaDB on consumer hardware.

Head-to-head coding benchmarks of Phi-4 Mini, Gemma 3 4B, and Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B on an RTX 5070: scores, VRAM usage, and editor integration steps.

Use local LLMs with Ollama to analyze server logs, detect anomalies, and find root causes. No cloud, no data exposure, far cheaper than Datadog.

Automate code reviews in your CI pipeline using local LLMs on self-hosted runners. Review pull requests with GPU hardware and Ollama, no APIs.

How power users on X and Reddit reacted to Claude Opus 4.7: praise for agentic coding, token burn concerns, and teams' practical prompting habits.