Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 28/09/2026A model only emits text. Shape it like a function call and you get tool use. It returns { name: "book_flight", ... }. Your runtime calls the real book_flight(). The model just made text; the booking happened in your code. sethjuarez.com/posts/models... 000
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 21/09/2026A model only hands your code text. Force it into a shape your program can read. Ask for a small structure, not prose. { destination, date, time }. It reads a messy sentence and hands back named fields your code acts on. sethjuarez.com/posts/models... 010
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 18/09/2026A model that browses is still just guessing the next token. The whole art of "agentic" is arranging the world around that guesser so its output means something to a program. Next up, shapes code can trust. sethjuarez.com/posts/how-th... 010
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 15/09/2026The smallest bridge from a model to your code is one word. Make it answer BOOK or CANCEL, nothing else. Now `if reply == "BOOK"` works. A paragraph of intent becomes one token your code can branch on. The seed of tool use. sethjuarez.com/posts/models... 011
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 14/09/2026Not as new as the hype sounds. Shannon played a guessing game with language in 1951, and Rosenblatt built the perceptron in 1957. Same nudge toward less wrong. We finally got the scale to make it sing. sethjuarez.com/posts/how-th... 000
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 11/09/2026The thing AI is actually good for, at least for me: a rough first draft I get to argue with. I do better work when something pushes back. sethjuarez.com/posts/scribb... 031
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 09/09/2026The thesis. A model has no agency. Agency is intent plus action. A model can turn your words into intent, a word or a structure. What it can't do is act. It emits tokens and stops. The doing happens in the runtime. sethjuarez.com/posts/models... 000
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 08/09/2026How LLMs learn, in one breath. Feed it the internet, hide the next word, let it guess, check how wrong it was, nudge it less wrong. Do that a few trillion times. Grammar and reasoning just fall out the side. sethjuarez.com/posts/how-th... 001
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 07/09/2026The Luddites weren't anti-technology. It started as a labor movement, workers defending their trade, serious enough that Lord Byron spoke for them in Parliament. We remember it wrong. sethjuarez.com/posts/scribb... 010
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 04/09/2026How does a next-token guesser write paragraphs? A loop. Guess a token, glue it on, feed it back, guess again, until it hits a "done" token. That's autoregression, the engine under every chatbot you've used. sethjuarez.com/posts/how-th... 000
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 03/09/2026Post two is up. The model doesn't have agency. It just emits tokens. The agent does, because the agent is the model plus a runtime. Watch the handoff happen, one shape at a time. sethjuarez.com/posts/models... 000
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 01/09/2026"Just learn a new skill" is what we tell people about AI now. Someone handed wool workers the same line in 1786, as machines took their jobs. They weren't impressed either. sethjuarez.com/posts/scribb... 010
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 31/08/2026A language model does exactly one thing. It guesses the next token. Not the answer, the next token, then it stops. Everything we call "agentic" is scaffolding around that one move. Still amazes me it works. sethjuarez.com/posts/how-th... 140
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 28/08/2026Found a petition from 1786 begging Parliament to ban a machine for killing jobs. Swap in "AI" and it's eerily close to today's headlines. We've been doing this for 240 years. sethjuarez.com/posts/scribb... 000
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 26/08/2026New series on how AI agents actually work, starting from the plumbing instead of the demos. Post one climbs all the way down to the one dumb thing a model actually does. It guesses the next word. sethjuarez.com/posts/how-th... 030
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 26/08/2026OK! Took your notes and augmented them a bit for the next post - let me know if it's better: www.sethjuarez.com/posts/how-th...sethjuarez.comHow the Machine Guesses the Next WordBefore we can talk about agents, look at what a large language model actually does. It does exactly one thing: guess the next token. Everything agentic we build later stands on that single, humble mec... 000
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 24/08/2026The first industrial revolution made muscle cheap. This one is making thinking cheap. Still not convinced that's the bad news everyone assumes it is. sethjuarez.com/posts/scribb... 000
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 22/08/2026For me, it's more important to get the ideas out as fast as I can (I have a lot). I don't mind the LLM smoothed vernacular so long as the ideas are clear - ideas which are mine and are in fact "load bearing." Thanks for chiming in though - suggestions on how you eliminate those kinds of LLMisms? 100
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 22/08/2026Not rude at all. Tell me more! Did what I was trying to say get overpowered by the AI assist? 100
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 20/08/2026I haven't written anything in about six years, so naturally I came back with a rant about 240 years of people trying to ban machines. anyway, new post. sethjuarez.com/posts/scribb... 232
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 05/05/2026Cinco de Mayo on a Taco Tuesday. The stars have aligned on this, the most beautiful of days. Take a moment to bask in the gloriousness of what today means and how it can shape your life moving forward. 050
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 23/04/2026In an effort to start writing things down again, I took a baby step and wrote down a bunch of ideas of things I might turn into posts. What should I write about next? sethjuarez.com/ideas/sethjuarez.comIdeas - Seth JuarezVote on what I should write about next! 140
Reposted by Seth JuarezRichard Campbell @richcampbell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Ready for a great explanation of agentic AI? @SethJuarez.com talks on .NET Rocks at www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1957 about what's actually going on under the hood - and how you can take advantage of it!dotnetrocks.com.NET Rocks!.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness. 072
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 18/02/2025I'm not sure this an accurate take. Happy to learn more about this take though! 000
Reposted by Seth JuarezSarah Young @sarahyo.com · 17/11/2024Ignite hosts assemble! (Hurry up @donasarkar.bsky.social ) @karuana.bsky.social @sethjuarez.com #MSIgnite 4564
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 03/05/2023Hey friends! I did a thing on prompt engineering: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sEujkZ79E4youtube.com 010
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 01/05/2023As promised - here's the code I showed during the #AIShow that gets into the basics of prompt engineering: github.com/sethjuarez/storechat Feel free to shoot me any questions! 063
Seth Juarez @sethjuarez.com · 01/05/2023Hey friends! I'm doing a live show about how ChatGPT works and some prompt engineering basics! Come heckle me! (Starts in 20m): www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sEujkZ79E4 031