When to use an AI Coding Agent
A few weeks ago, I set up an automation in Codex to send me a weekly report on how efficiently I use AI for APEX development. The report is consistently telling me that I am using AI too much for smal
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Brief notes with my thoughts on Oracle APEX, AI, and technology in general.
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Vector Search is Hard
In spite of the demos you have seen, implementing vector search for a real-world application is hard. Google Search has set user expectations for search. Those expectations carry over into APEX apps.
Context is a Budget
The more I work with APEX AI Agents, the more convinced I am that context should be treated as a budget. The system prompt, tool definitions, conversation history, and tool responses all spend some of
What Is Jev, and Can APEX Developers Benefit?
Plamen Mushkov mentioned Jev to me in a LinkedIn post on Friday. Of course I signed up for an API key to see whether it could help APEX developers. Jev is a System One AI model from TypeSafe. You send
Who is accountable for your APEX AI Agent?
I recently read a LinkedIn post from an old friend that got me thinking about AI and accountability. More specifically, who is accountable for what your APEX AI agents do? TL;DR: As an APEX developer,
Two Days of APEX Changes in Four Hours
This week I made a change to an APEX app that manages evaluation products. The requirement was to allow evaluation products to be entered in one country and manufactured in another country. In the end
