My notes on tips and tricks on switching to OSS LLM.

Web development is fun but requires extensive tool expertise to be most effective. I will list a set of tools I have used over the years.

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I am researching email SaaS solutions that has inbound email API with webook capabilities for our INTEVOMAIL solutions. To create redundancy, we need at least two providers.

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Accessing LLM in your apps is going to be almost a requirements in the near future as users demand natural language interaction with your tools. This is why learning and using LLM API capabilities is a big plus for any startup or solo developer.

Here I will share my research into this topic.

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Software developers are adopting more and more LLM and other LLM-powered third-party tools and co-pilots to help them with mundane and or routine programming tasks like generating generic code snippets to code documentation to even test code or documentation. This speeds up development, QA/QC and acceptance and so there is a lot of AI tools in the market. 

I use LLMs like ChatGPT directy and do not use copilots yet so I decided to research the new and trendy tools and see what the hype is all about. First step is to compile a list of them and then try them out. I am sharing my research so you can save some time and

Be aware that I haven't used these tools yet but compiling a list from various sources.

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Uclusion is an innovative task management platform designed to streamline team collaboration, combining communication, assignments, and status updates into a user-friendly app. It's often described as an "asynchronous IDE for collaboration" that replaces traditional team meetings, Slack, and Jira by automating team feedback through a range of developer-specific workflows, backed by an inbox and add wizards. Uclusion aims to make team collaboration more efficient and effective by providing a modern, all-in-one solution for managing tasks, assignments, and communication. It's an opinionated approach to task management that aims to revolutionize how teams work together.

David Israel, a co-founder of Uclusion, invited me to try out his product using the free version. He helped set up the initial workspace, and I asked one of my QA team members to join to check it out.  Before introducing it to the rest of my engineering and QA teams, who are very stubborn about what they use daily, I thought of creating a Pros and Cons ShowNotes.

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Uclusion aims to modernize software development by replacing outdated practices with an integrated, developer-first approach. It focuses on asynchronous collaboration and minimizes meetings. However, it may not suit all teams and requires careful consideration of its automated and opinionated processes.