Alan Nichol
@alanmnichol.bsky.social
Co-founder@Rasa, doing chatbots since before they were good. Sharing takes I can't put on linkedin. Former physicist, wannabe chef, someday cuneiform translator.
the sons of bitches did it
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
the sons of bitches did it
Ok this editing is very impressive
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Ok this editing is very impressive
We’ve been trying to correct our toddler that her name is not, in fact, “you” and it’s quite the routine
October 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We’ve been trying to correct our toddler that her name is not, in fact, “you” and it’s quite the routine
Great reporting by the FT but I would also read the hell out of 4K words on this written by an anthropologist in The Atlantic
September 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great reporting by the FT but I would also read the hell out of 4K words on this written by an anthropologist in The Atlantic
@simonwillison.net would you like a sticker
July 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
@simonwillison.net would you like a sticker
“Agents and Evals” meet-up at the Rasa office tonight.
Great crowd, so many questions and so much good discussion.
Reminded me how much I love a good meet up! Been too long.
Thanks to speakers and especially to everyone who showed up!
Imagine nerding out when you could be chilling in the sun
Great crowd, so many questions and so much good discussion.
Reminded me how much I love a good meet up! Been too long.
Thanks to speakers and especially to everyone who showed up!
Imagine nerding out when you could be chilling in the sun
June 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“Agents and Evals” meet-up at the Rasa office tonight.
Great crowd, so many questions and so much good discussion.
Reminded me how much I love a good meet up! Been too long.
Thanks to speakers and especially to everyone who showed up!
Imagine nerding out when you could be chilling in the sun
Great crowd, so many questions and so much good discussion.
Reminded me how much I love a good meet up! Been too long.
Thanks to speakers and especially to everyone who showed up!
Imagine nerding out when you could be chilling in the sun
MCP is all the rage, but for customer-facing AI "tool use" 🛠️ is actually the wrong abstraction. There's a new agentic pattern emerging which I've started calling "process use". It's a much better fit for voice and chat AI in customer support.
rasa.com/blog/process...
rasa.com/blog/process...
May 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
MCP is all the rage, but for customer-facing AI "tool use" 🛠️ is actually the wrong abstraction. There's a new agentic pattern emerging which I've started calling "process use". It's a much better fit for voice and chat AI in customer support.
rasa.com/blog/process...
rasa.com/blog/process...
It goes a hundred hectares on a single litre of kerosene!
May 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It goes a hundred hectares on a single litre of kerosene!
top this deepseek take (you can't)
February 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
top this deepseek take (you can't)
linkedin you grass
January 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
linkedin you grass
when a maths/physics undergrad becomes a BDR
January 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
when a maths/physics undergrad becomes a BDR
Not sure which of these makes me more of a Dad:
2024 - becoming a father
2025 - having a letter published in the FT
2024 - becoming a father
2025 - having a letter published in the FT
January 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Not sure which of these makes me more of a Dad:
2024 - becoming a father
2025 - having a letter published in the FT
2024 - becoming a father
2025 - having a letter published in the FT
my guy it is a ten word email
January 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
my guy it is a ten word email
including 'observability'
January 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
including 'observability'
Working from a friends office today and they have an absolutely normal, unremarkable selection in their fruit basket
January 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Working from a friends office today and they have an absolutely normal, unremarkable selection in their fruit basket
Anyone found an LLM that can solve a Connections puzzle? I’ve thrown a few at Claude over the last few months and it’s never come close.
December 1, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Anyone found an LLM that can solve a Connections puzzle? I’ve thrown a few at Claude over the last few months and it’s never come close.
Meanwhile, in Germany:
December 1, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Meanwhile, in Germany:
As a fan of continue.dev I saw this github copilot popup on my PR and thought to give it a try.
Right.
Right.
November 12, 2024 at 3:27 PM
As a fan of continue.dev I saw this github copilot popup on my PR and thought to give it a try.
Right.
Right.
