⚡5-min embeddings guide & my git script r/git hated

Joke: Why did the neural network go to therapy?

(Answer below) ⬇️

Latest content to boost you

• A simple guide to using vector embeddings
  My walkthrough that explains how to use embeddings (i.e., comparing text meaning as numbers). Start here if you’re new to embeddings.
  👉 Full guide

• Simple script to automate your git commit messages with AI
  People hated this post on r/git. Guess that teaches me to post a script that automates git commits to a community of people who love doing git work 🙂 
  👉 Full guide  
  

• Add full-page reading to Claude with Firecrawl MCP

  Here’s a demo clip where I feed our startup’s site to Claude and get suggestions back. This gives Claude the ability to read the web for me. Here’s how to do it.

• LLMs are Making Me Dumber (thought)
  Vincent Cheng argues that outsourcing too much thinking to Claude/Gemini leaves your own mental muscles flabby.
  
  My take: using LLMs gives us higher leverage, like technology generally. Just like I’m dependent on a calculator to add big numbers, or a knife to cut bread (instead of ripping it apart with my hands), using technology lets us do more. Dependency is the cost.
  
  I think the key point is agency: outsourcing all learning and decision-making could cause us not to know what we want. Let’s avoid that 🙂

📅 My upcoming content for you:

• The simplest guide to add Google sign-in to Next.js

• Build an AI Chrome extension in 30 minutes – I’ve been building an AI-powered embedded chat this week for our startup using React and the WXT framework (big time-saver so far).

• Ship AI-enriched multi-table search – Jitty-style results with almost zero new code.

(Reply if you’re keen on one - helps me prioritize.) 

Sending best wishes to you from sunny London 🇬🇧

Tom

P.S. Haven’t said hi yet? Hit reply with where you’re reading from—I reply to everyone ✍️

P.P.S I got married!

Joke: Why did the neural network go to therapy?

Answer: It had too many weight issues 🎉