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Thoughts and ideas on how to build tools, automate workflows and speed-up the workplace.
AI vs Automation for Managing Workflows
Today, there’s greater pressure than ever for organizations to achieve maximum efficiency across all sorts of workflows and processes. However, the landscape for how this can be achieved has shifted in recent years. Specifically, more and more teams are turning to AI-powered solutions where once they might have relied solely on traditional workflow automations. But does this mean that every automation use case should be replaced with an AI solution?
Ronan McQuillan
Jul 1, 2025
6 AI Agent Frameworks
AI agents are becoming more and more common across businesses of all kinds. While the benefits of agentic AI are massive and well documented, their emergence nonetheless presents important challenges for developers. In large part, this comes down to the fact that agents are highly complex systems. To alleviate this, a range of tools are available to speed up and simplify the process of AI agent development. These vary in both scope and approach, aiming to empower a range of different user personas to create agentic systems.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 30, 2025
AI-Powered Forms | 5 Use Cases and Examples
AI forms are becoming a more and more prominent part of daily life. By offering more efficient, reliable data collection, they have great potential to transform and enhance a wide range of workflows and processes. However, this is also a broad category of tools, covering a range of use cases and different AI-powered techniques and functions. Today, we’re covering everything you need to know in order to roll out effective AI forms.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 26, 2025
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) vs Fine-Tuning
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuning are two of the key techniques that we can use to improve the output of AI-powered tools within a specific domain. However, they are far from interchangeable. Indeed, each one is a distinct technique, with its own use cases, benefits, challenges, and requirements. Today, we’re exploring what each one is, where they differ, and how we can leverage them within our own development projects.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 25, 2025
9 AI Agent Tools for 2025
AI agents are one of the most transformative new technologies we’ve seen in decades. Because of this, teams in all industries are rushing to implement agentic solutions. At the same time, a huge number of vendors have come to market with tools for building and managing AI agents. However, these can vary greatly. On the one hand, there are highly developer-focused platforms and frameworks, while on the other, there are no-code tools, aimed at non-technical colleagues.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 23, 2025
Chatbot APIs vs WebSockets
With the ongoing rise of generative AI, chatbots are becoming more and more prevalent. This includes a huge range of use cases across all industries. Chatbots are also becoming more sophisticated, including taking autonomous actions based on conversations with users. So, developers must be familiar with the tools and techniques that are required to output chatbot solutions. Today, we’re diving deep into an important subtopic within this, by checking out two of the most common communications techniques we’re going to encounter - Chatbot APIs and WebSockets.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 13, 2025
Generative AI vs Agentic AI | Use Cases, Tool Stacks & Benefits
Agentic AI is one of the hottest topics in the world of enterprise technology. This is leading businesses in all industries to rush to adopt AI agents, in pursuit of efficiency gains and enhanced accuracy within workflows. However, as with any other new technology, it’s vital that we have a firm grasp of the key concepts that underpin it. Today, we’re exploring one of the most important elements to this by examining the relationship between generative AI and agentic AI, including what each one is, how they work, when they’re used, and where they overlap.
Ronan McQuillan
May 30, 2025
10 Agentic AI Use Cases
Agentic AI is probably the hottest topic in the world of enterprise IT. In fact, software vendors in just about every niche have added agentic AI features to their products over the past couple of years. However, in the real world, adopting AI agents isn’t such a straightforward process. On the one hand, many teams struggle to determine the right tools for their needs in a fast-evolving market. On the other hand, in their rush to roll out solutions, some companies lose sight of the need for provable ROI.
Ronan McQuillan
May 23, 2025