Tag: Qdrant

• Building Aria: Part 4 – The Alignment Mirror

  

  Photo by Avery Evans on Unsplash Over the previous three entries, Project Aria has crossed three clear thresholds, though none of them felt clear while I was in the middle of them. In Part 1, she found her voice: more than a demo, she became a partner in conversation that carried beyond a single reply.…

  Dom

  October 4, 2025

  Artificial Intelligence, Leadership & Teamwork, Philosophy

  AI ethics, AI orchestration, alignment, Aria project, Automation, distributed systems, fallback logic, Gemini, Generative AI, honesty in AI, human-AI interaction, Leadership, Local AI, MCP, model tuning, n8n, Ollama, organizational design, Postgres, Prompt Engineering, Qdrant, reflective engineering, resilience engineering, system design, technical writing

• Building Aria: Part 3 – The Separation of Brain and Body

  

  By the end of Part 1, Aria had a voice. She could hold a conversation, remember names in a fact table, and respond in Discord as more than just a proof of concept. Part 2 gave her agency: the ability to act through tools, recall through layered memory, and refine her own decisions when a…

  Dom

  September 28, 2025

  Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Project

  AIInfrastructure, AIOrchestration, ArtificialIntelligence, DevOps, EngineeringLeadership, FastAPI, LLMEngineering, MachineLearning, MCP, MemoryArchitecture, ModularDesign, Ollama, OpenSourceAI, Postgres, PromptEngineering, Qdrant, SelfHostedAI, SoftwareArchitecture, TechBlog, ToolUse, VectorDatabases

• Building Aria: Part 2 – From Voice to Agency

  

  Picking Up the Thread In Part 1, Aria reached her first milestone: she was live in a practical sense. Running locally in Docker, serving models through Ollama, and speaking through Discord, she could already respond in conversation. Messages flowed into Postgres, the last ten entries recalled with each new exchange, giving her a baseline of…

  Dom

  September 19, 2025

  Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, technology

  abstract foundations, AI, Automation, context optimization, conversational AI, embeddings, Gemini, Knowledge management, local LLM, MCP, memory systems, n8n, Ollama, Orchestration, Postgres, Qdrant, retries, system design, tool usage, vector database, workflow automation

• Building Aria: Part 1 – Giving Shape to a Thought

  

  Photo by EJ Strat on Unsplash Framing the Problem Everyone in tech seems to have a strong opinion on AI these days—especially generative AI, the kind that powers everything from chatbots to deepfakes to essays in classrooms. For the past year, I’ve been immersed in it, testing the major models, subscribing to the usual suspects,…

  Dom

  September 13, 2025

  Artificial Intelligence, technology, Work Trends

  AI, AI Architecture, AI Tools, Automation, Chatbots, Docker, infrastructure, LLM, LLM Stack, Local AI, Machine Learning, n8n, Ollama, open source, Orchestration, PostgreSQL, Prompt Engineering, Qdrant, Self-Hosted AI, Vector Search