Tom Dekan

Hey, I'm Tom! I solve business problems, often with code.

I'm a AI engineer at Stackfix.

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Testing generating videos with Google's Veo3
My first experiments with Google's new Veo3 video generation model. I share the results, the prompts used, the current costs.
June 7, 2025
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Automate git commit messages with a simple script (that r/git hated)
I like to automate as much work as possible. Here's a simple shell / bash script I'm using to save time by automatically creating git commit messages. r/git disliked it.
May 12, 2025
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A Beginner's Guide to Vector Embeddings
The simplest guide to vector embeddings in practice and how to use them, including video demos solving real problems at our startup by quantifying text meaning for classification and similarity tasks.
April 11, 2025
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Your LLM Problem Isn't Tooling. It's Effort
Getting great LLM output with an LLM-as-a-judge requires more effort, not more tools
April 2, 2025
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AI Needs Us? Information Theory and Humans as data
Why superintelligent AI would protect humanity as a source of complexity and knowledge
March 23, 2025
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Can we detect AI-generated text?
I tested 5 AI-text detectors that claim to detect LLM-generated text. The outcome: they don't work well.
March 20, 2025
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Train an AI to generate text with Python 🧠
We'll train a real GPT AI language model from scratch using Python on macOS, specifically designed to generate Shakespearean text, using the Tiny Shakespeare dataset.
September 22, 2024
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Add inline AI suggestions to your Django app 🗯
Use a fast LLM, HTMX, and Photon Designer to recommend actions to the user.
May 8, 2024
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Build a Django AI colorization app 🎨🦾
Use Django and webhooks to build an app that uses AI to color black and white photos.
January 19, 2024
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