🐾 Sanctuary: Building a Living AI Companion with Gemma

<p>There's a dirty secret in mental wellness tech: most apps ignore the most powerful therapeutic tool humans have had for 15,000 years — their pets.</p> <p>I spent the last 6

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<p>Exciting Project Update: Meet Your New AI Study Companion!<br /> Have you ever felt overwhelmed by a massive syllabus with exams just around the corner? Figuring out where to

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Even with agent framework DX getting somewhat better - it's still really annoying to build real apps with them. Even a basic in-app agent chatbot

<p>Let's be real: the current AI coding workflow is tedious. </p> <p>You hit a bug. You copy your code. You tab out to ChatGPT/Claude. You paste it. You copy the fix. You paste it