Long-billed Curlew, Marshall's Beach, San Francisco, California

Using Anthropic's models via Vertex AI in opencode

Opencode makes it easy to use Anthropic’s Claude models through Google’s Vertex AI platform.

13 April 2026 · 2 min · 306 words · Major Hayden
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Summarize YouTube videos with Fabric

Some of my favorite YouTube videos are really informative with lots of useful content, but I struggle to extract the most important concepts as I’m watching. A new tool called fabric and Claude can help.

22 September 2025 · 12 min · 2374 words · Major Hayden
The old statehouse in Boston, MA

RAG talk recap from DevConf.US 2025

Building a RAG system isn’t easy. It’s a lot more like a quest.

20 September 2025 · 4 min · 714 words · Major Hayden
Extremely cute french bulldog looking out the window of a Jeep Wrangler

Vibe-free coding with AI

Yes, I do write code with help from an LLM, but I wouldn’t call it vibe coding. Let’s dig into how (and why) I do it. 🤖

7 May 2025 · 7 min · 1321 words · Major Hayden
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Rub some AI on it

If you have a problem, be sure to add artificial intelligence (AI) to it. Then you have two problems.

21 August 2024 · 6 min · 1184 words · Major Hayden