January is always a month for planning. This year, I have a really ambitious roadmap, with several times more goals than I take on average. It will be challenging to meet them, but I am very excited about the prospect of having a more active year!
Achievements
Started AI Projects
One of my goals this year is to start leveraging AI more widely in my work. While I have been studying it and building some projects around generative AI tools, I want to incorporate it more in my everyday activities.
Not only I plan to use AI to get more work done, I am also determined to create a lot more systems that use AI creatively. I do not want to share the details yet, but I will surely write about them as the year goes. I already started with some, and the results have been very inspiring!
Released JenAI v1.8.0
I have been building JenAI since 2024, and despite its simplicity it is still a tool that is very much present in my routine. This month, I released a new version (v1.8.0) adding database support for both Postgres and SQLite. JenAI always had an emphasis on local environments, and one aspect of this was its usage of the filesystem as the only persistence option - while I remain fully commited to keep it local-only, supporting the usage of a database (which still has to be local, anyway) allows for more easily integrating complex features, such as AI-initiated chats and embedding JenAI as the underlying engine for a broader AI system (a future project of mine).
Downpoints
Personal studies lacking
Having difficulties to find time for personal studies was a recurrent theme last year - unfortunately this year started in a similar way. I am not too concerned about this, because I had very good reasons to divert my time to other projects and I have a strong plan on how to get back to this soon, but it still was a negative aspect of the month.
Plans for next month
More AI Engineering studies
Last year I started studying AI Engineering books alongside the classic career and hobby studies I do. This did not end well, as I was overwhelmed with tasks and almost never got the time to do them all. So for February I plan to retake these studies, and come up with a better plan on how to address all the needs in a healthy and sustainable manner.
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