Raymond is an experienced developer evangelist and advocate. He focuses on APIs, AI, the web platform, and enterprise cat demos.

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Building a Resume Review and Revise System with Generative AI and Flask

The last two sessions of my live stream, Code Break, have been really interesting, at least to me anyway. I've been discussing generative AI with Google Gemini and building a relatively simple example while doing so - a resume review and revisement system. This started off pretty simply with a Python script and then iterated into a proper Flask app. I thought it would be fun to document the code here a bit and share it with those who couldn't make the streams. If you would rather just watch the recordings, I've got them embedded at the bottom. Feel free to skip to that.

Generative AI Images with Gemini and Imagen - an Introduction

I've been waiting for this to launch for a few days now, and while technically this isn't quite yet available in Gemini, only Vertex, it should be testable in Gemini in the very short term. You can now use Google's APIs to generate really high quality images via their Imagen 3 technology. I've got a few blog posts planned that will demonstrate these features (and from what I've been told, even more powerful stuff is coming), but I thought I'd start off today with a simple short example.

Using Generative AI to Help in Customer Service

Ok, before I begin, let me be absolutely clear. I do not think AI can replace customer support. I do think it can supplement and help customer support however, and I'd like to share an example of what this could look like. Imagine your service has a customer service form or email address. Typically, you type in your question, send it off, and wait. But what if you could provide an AI generated answer immediately while the person waits? At worse it doesn't help. At best, it could be exactly what they need and the request could be terminated saving everyone time. Let's consider an example of this.

Links For You (1/25/25)

Greetings, programs. I'm writing this from the deep, deep south where my kids were all off school this week because of... snow. I kid you not. On Tuesday we got around ten inches of snow, more than the area's ever seen in recorded history I believe. I grew up in Saint Louis so I've seen snow before, but in the nearly twenty-five years I've been here there's never been anything like it.

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