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Melvin Tercan
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I write about designing autonomous agentic AI systems here: https://melvintercan.com 🇳🇱 → 🇺🇸
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SaaS, RPA, and Low-Code/No-Code promised to revolutionize business operations, but they've often fallen short, creating new challenges instead of solving old ones. Let's dive into why 👇
Imagine you're a marketing manager tasked with creating the perfect audience segment from over a million households. Days of research, trial, and error—only to wonder if you missed a better option. What if AI could do it all in minutes?
January 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
SaaS, RPA, and Low-Code/No-Code promised to revolutionize business operations, but they've often fallen short, creating new challenges instead of solving old ones. Let's dive into why 👇
January 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
software engineering is the original prompt engineering, in both cases you feed in blobs of text to tell the computer what do
January 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Happy Perfect Square Year, everyone!
January 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The problem with research papers is that they’re not grounded in reality solving practical problems. If you’re looking to use AI agents to solve real problems don’t look for insights in research papers.
December 21, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Last week I wrote about the rise of agentic AI systems. This week, I'm exploring in depth (~4,000 words!) what makes autonomous agents truly autonomous.

Read the full article here: melvintercan.com/p/anatomy-of...
Anatomy of an Autonomous AI Agent
Exploring the Fundamental Building Blocks That Power Agentic AI Systems
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December 16, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Yesterday's announcement of Google's quantum chip, and in particular their claim that quantum computing leverages multiple universes, spurred many discussions online.

After reading many comments, here's what I gathered:
December 10, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Hundreds of vertically integrated AI startups are busy replacing entire teams. At the same time, starting and scaling a billion dollar business has never been easier.

Read more here: melvintercan.com/p/ai-is-eati...
AI Is Eating the Jobs
Hundreds of vertically integrated AI startups are busy replacing entire teams. At the same time, starting and scaling a billion dollar business has never been easier.
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December 9, 2024 at 10:03 PM