• How to Build a Production-Ready Application in Two Days

    How do you build a production-ready app in only two days? Do it four times. Yes, that’s technically eight days! But hear me out. In my previous post I argued that Building Software Is No Longer a Nightmare, because AI coding assistants can take care of all the annoying peripheral...

  • Building Software Is No Longer a Nightmare

    Will Large Language Models make us better coders or worse? While this questions will take time to settle, one thing it clear: LLMs have finally broken down the barriers to creating and publishing open source. How many projects took off quickly with the implementation of the core logic only to...

  • Setting Up a RAG Chatbot on Azure AI Foundry

    Introduction Chatbots are everywhere, but not all are created equal. Some can handle general questions, but struggle with specific or up-to-date information. That’s where a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot stands out. It uses AI grounded in data in a knowledge base to give accurate answers without needing constant updates or...

  • Hello, Praktikai

    What is PRAKTIKAI? PRAKTIKAI is a new type of consultancy that drives value in businesses through data and artificial intelligence, without the hype. Our name is based on the Greek word for practicality or putting things into practice, and our approach is grounded in the same. AI is in our...

  • Generative AI & The Microwave

    Introduction Things are different now, I think that is the one thing we can all agree upon. Since the “November moment”, of which today is the anniversary, things have really taken a turn. Everyone - whether it’s practitioners in industry or the general public - everyone seems to now be...