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Getting into AI agents? Skip the hype.
They're powerful, but only with serious testing and supervision. Find every way it can break. Build checks to catch those breaks. Review everything.
Do that work, and you'll InshAllah have a reliable tool for a specific task. Skip it, and you'll have chaos.
@jgesteves Some are better thinkers. I mean, they are more rational. You could use them more like a manager. Others are better at writing in a human way, but they are not as smart, so to speak. Both types are needed; they complement each other. So, I wouldn't say one is better than the other.
Two AI agents reviewing each other's work sounds gimmicky until you try it.
I give both agents the same context and draft. Agent A works on it. Then I ask agent B to critique A's output and suggest what I should tell A.
What happens? They catch each other's mistakes. Sometimes they disagree and I have to mediate. Most of the time I just enjoy watching them work.
Most WordPress users aren't programming. They're configuring.
There's a real difference:
- Writing code vs clicking GUI
- Building systems vs combining plugins
- Asking "How do I automate?" vs "Which plugin?"
Like Excel user vs Database engineer.
Like Canva designer vs UX engineer.
Both valid. Different skillsets.
Configuration isn't programming.
#WordPress #Programming #WebDevelopment #Coding #TechThinking
Enjoy this boring post. I have this weird crush on typography. Spent days learning about fonts: theory, open-source options, creating custom ones, which to use where (web, email, code, books...).
I find it amazing how beautiful letters can look. Call me crazy.
If you want a readable font for coding, try JetBrains Mono.
These are my reflections as a human being with many flaws. Allah the Perfect knows best.
One more thing: Ayah 2:44 (right before this) discusses giving advice. Then Allah gives this advice about Sabr, demonstrating how to advise properly.
1400 years before Sabr became the most common advice among Muslims, Allah showed us exactly how to give it.
Now here's what moves me about this ayah: Muslims constantly advise each other to have Sabr. Beautiful tradition.
Yet Allah responds with such compassion. He acknowledges this path isn't equally accessible to everyone. The gentleness in that recognition.
Concrete example: We see Israel bombing newborns. Speaking against this might harm careers in the West. They call it "politics" to avoid dealing with it.
But if you've understood that human dignity is non-negotiable, you speak anyway. That's the active part of Sabr, as I understand it.
My understanding of Sabr: It has two parts. The seemingly passive part is the internal jihad against our nafs. When someone doesn't snap back, doesn't respond with ego? That's invisible warfare. The greater jihad.
The active part? Standing for what's right, even when costly.
I've been reflecting on Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayah 2:45, and there's something that strikes me deeply.
Allah tells us to seek help through Sabr and prayer. Then He says something remarkable: "Indeed, it is a burden except for the humble."
Allah Himself acknowledges this path is difficult. سُبْحَانَ ٱللّٰه
Instead, what I understand is: Allah is reminding us advice givers to look at ourselves first. To work on ourselves before we rush to correct others.
The advice giver becomes someone worth listening to. And the advice taker? They're more likely to actually accept and benefit from that advice.
But controlling my Nafs in that moment? That's hard. I find myself struggling to accept advice from certain people, regardless of what they're saying.
And سُبْحَانَ ٱللّٰه, from my understanding, Allah's mercy shines through in this Ayah. He's not forcing us to accept advice from everyone.
How many times has someone given you advice and you already had your defense ready? Like a reflex? You just didn't want to hear it from THAT person.
Technically, good advice is good advice regardless of who says it. We should focus on the message, not the messenger. I know that's right.
In Surah Al-Baqarah (2:44), Allah addresses Bani Israel about preaching righteousness without practicing it. But from my understanding, this lesson is for us Muslims today too.
Here's what I honestly struggle with, and maybe you do too.
Congratulations to all New Yorkers who won with Zohran Mamdani.
He did something nearly impossible. He won against billionaire-funded smear campaigns. Politicians on payrolls. Millions spent to stop him.
Regular people united and proved they're stronger than money.
But those billionaires won't stop. New Yorkers: stay vigilant. Keep making noise.
UN investigator Pramila Patten investigated Hamas rape claims from October 7th.
She reviewed 5,000 photos, 50 hours of footage, all camera types.
Result: ZERO evidence. No medical. No forensic. No photographic. No digital.
Norman Finkelstein: Complete absence of visual evidence isn't just no evidence.It's overwhelming evidence it never happened.
Israel lied to justify genocide.
When you submit 4,700 pages to the International Court of Justice, you're not making casual claims. You're presenting a case built on facts, documentation, and what's happening on the ground.
Norman Finkelstein on South Africa's genocide case at the ICJ:
700 pages for the memorial.
4,000 pages of supporting documentation.
This isn't just allegations. This is evidence.
The judge used extraordinarily strong language.
He called those who arrested the students and forced masks over their faces "cowardly desperados acting like the Ku Klux Klan."
They were "terrorizing people's right to free speech."
A Reagan judge. Defending Palestinian solidarity. Let that sink in.