Book Wrap Up

This book has been fun to write but it has also somewhat frustrating.

It was fun because I have never been as excited by new technology as I have by LLMs and utility software like LangChain and LlamaIndex for building personalized applications.

This book was frustrating in the sense that it is now so very easy to build applications that just a few years would have been impossible to write. Usually when I write books I have two criteria: I only write about things that I am personally interested in and use, and I also hope to figure out non-obvious edge cases and make easier for my readers to use new tech. Here my frustration is writing about something that it is increasingly simple to do so I feel like my value is diminished.

All that said I hope, dear reader, that you found this book to be worth your time reading.

What am I going to do next? Although I am not fond of programming in JavaScript (although I find TypeScript to be somewhat better), I want to explore the possibilities of writing an open source Persistent Storage Web App Personal Knowledge Base Management System. I might get pushback on this but I would probably make it Apple Safari specific so I can use Apple’s CloudKit JS to make its use seamless across macOS, iPadOS, and iOS. If I get the right kind of feedback on social media I might write a book around this project.

Thank you for reading my book!

Best regards, Mark Watson