Welcome back to my journey through the AI_devs course! After diving into the fundamentals of LLM interaction in Week 1, this second week took us into the exciting realm of multimodal AI - where language models meet audio, vision, and image generation capabilities.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming a new type of computing platform, and knowing how to work with them is quickly becoming as essential as understanding traditional programming. Join me on my journey through AI_devs course, where I’m learning to transform LLMs from simple chatbots into powerful, autonomous agents that can actually get things done.

In this weekly series, I’ll share my journey of learning how to build these intelligent systems, starting with the foundations I learned in Week 1.

Setting up a development environment can often be a daunting and complex task, especially when switching between multiple projects. Each project may require a distinct environment, making the transition between them challenging. This is where the magic of containers comes into play. In the world of IT, containers have revolutionized the way we handle project environments, offering isolation, consistency, and convenience. By not leveraging containers, IT professionals are missing out on the benefits of a smoother and more efficient workflow.

When I’m working with some tool, I’m looking for a way to customize it, especially when it comes to themes :)

I’m a big fan of dark themes. In Azure DevOps, there is one available by default, but you can enable more, better-looking, themes.

I’m a learner. I love to learn. And I love workshops, where I can really do something, instead of just reading.

Some time ago I found a pretty nice website with Azure cloud workshops.

Azure Activity Log is a great tool for auditing resources in your subscription. For example, you can check who (and when) has created or stopped a Virtual Machine.

For many events, it is quite obvious what happened – Start/Stop VM events don’t require more explanation. But it is not the case for the “update” event. For me, it was always hard to find out what really has changed.

While I was learning about bicep I found Cloud Maker – a really nice tool for creating and managing cloud infrastructure.

They started with a tool for drawing cloud infrastructure diagrams – for Azure, AWS, and GCP. Now they are adding a possibility to deploy what you have on your diagram – how cool is that? 🙂

Microsoft has recently released an experimental language for creating Azure ARM templates. It is called bicep.

Syntax on this new language is quite similar to Terraform – which means it is much more readable and developer-friendly: