Surya Prakash Jayanti

How I Built a Library-Constrained Book Recommender I read 200+ books. An agent picked my next 100 from my library shelf. I wanted recommendations constrained to books I can borrow now, not generic "you might also like" suggestions. So I built a pipeline that combines my reading history with Libby/OverDrive catalog data, then uses an LLM as a final curator. Code: github.com/jnsuryaprakash/book-recommender At a glance 210 prior reads parsed 16,450 library titles scanned 300 candidates to rerank 87 final picks Runtime: ~12 minutes local compute + ~30 seconds LLM call. LLM token cost: <$0.40 end-to-end. Output The pipeline produced themed, borrowable recommendations and stayed inexpensive to run (under $0.40 in LLM token cost end-to-end). Plano output: 87 picks across 9 themes. Sample themes includ...

This week's AI pulse: Agentic development tools matured, offering developers better control and deeper integration into existing cloud platforms. 1. Know this Cloudflare Launches “Artifacts” Beta for AI Agents Why it matters: Cloudflare introduces Git-style version control for AI agent outputs, a critical step for bringing the same rigor of traditional code development to agentic projects. This enhances reproducibility, auditability, and collaboration in CI/CD workflows, addressing key security and reliability concerns for evolving agent behaviors. Action: Evaluate how Git-like versioning for AI agent outputs can integrate into your existing CI/CD pipelines. Consider how this impacts agent deployment strategies and artifact management, ensuring proper traceability and rollback capabilities for evolving agent logic. 2. Try this llm 0.32a2 Unlocks Interleaved Reasoning for OpenAI Models Why it matters: The latest llm alpha release provides access to summarized reasoning...

 

How I Automated a Weekly AI News Blog Using RSS, Gemini, GitHub Actions, and Blogger with $0 cost I wanted a simple, low-cost way to publish a weekly AI and platform engineering brief. The goal was clear: collect interesting updates from trusted RSS feeds, summarize them with Gemini, publish the result to Blogger, and generate a LinkedIn-ready share post. The result is AI News in 10: Weekend Brief , an automated weekly blog pipeline that runs every Thursday at 5 PM Central time. The idea Instead of building a full newsletter platform or custom CMS, I used tools that are either free or already available: RSS feeds for source discovery Gemini API for summarization and blog generation GitHub Actions for weekly automation Blogger API for publishing to Blogspot GitHub Actions Summary for the final blog link and LinkedIn copy End-to-end flow Thursday 5 PM Central | v GitHub Actions starts the workflow | v Python script reads ...

This week's AI pulse: Agentic development continues to mature, bringing crucial advancements in security, versioning, and self-hosted infrastructure. 1. Know this GitHub Fortifies AI Agent Security in CI/CD Why it matters: As AI agents integrate deeper into CI/CD, they introduce new attack surfaces and compliance challenges; GitHub’s layered defense architecture helps secure these emerging workflows, focusing on isolation, constrained execution, and auditability. The goal is to safely integrate autonomous AI agents while mitigating risks like prompt injection and unintended actions. Action: Prioritize understanding the security implications of autonomous agents in your CI/CD pipelines and explore implementing isolation, constrained execution, and detailed audit trails as core security tenets. 2. Try this Coder Agents Enable Self-Hosted AI Coding Workflows Why it matters: Companies facing strict data governance or unique infrastructure requirements can now run AI coding...

This week's AI pulse: Agentic development is hitting new maturity, with crucial advancements in version control, self-hosting options, and robust security frameworks for AI agents in the CI/CD pipeline. 1. Know this Cloudflare Launches “Artifacts” Beta for Git-Like AI Agent Versioning Why it matters: Cloudflare's new Artifacts system brings familiar Git-style version control to AI agents, allowing developers to meticulously track, manage, and evolve agent-generated outputs. This addresses a significant challenge in agentic development, enabling the same rigor for AI artifacts as for traditional code, which is essential for auditability and robust CI/CD pipelines. Action: Consider how Git-like versioning for AI agent outputs could streamline your agentic development workflows, improve collaboration, and enhance the reliability of your automated deployments. 2. Try this Coder Agents Enable Self-Hosted AI Coding Workflows Why it matters: Coder Agents offers a model-ag...