AI Development

🧠 Debugging GenAI with NLWeb and OpenTelemetry: A Real-Time Visibility Win “If you can’t see it, you can’t debug it.” That’s been the challenge with GenAI and Copilot-style plugins — until now. 🎯 Goal I wanted to trace and troubleshoot my Copilot agent plugin activity using OpenTelemetry. The stretch goal? Pipe that into a natural-language search experience using NLWeb, so I could ask questions like: “What plugins were used?” “What calls failed?” “How long did token generation take?” ✅ As of today — we did it. Here’s how. ...

🚀 Introduction This guide captures a modern, evaluation-first approach to building AI-powered projects using tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and local LLMs like LLaMA and DeepSeek. We’ll use AsyncPR — a real-world mobile app project I built and shipped — as the public example. Check out a YouTube short video I did here on the App https://go.fabswill.com/asyncpr-shortintro and feel free to test it out! This guide reflects how I work today: VS Code as my IDE, Copilot for code assist, and running private models on my MacBook when needed for security or speed. ...