Say hello Three AI tools you can use right now. Each one answers from real sources, shows you what it used, and says so when it doesn't know.
my digital twin
An AI version of me. It answers from my real profile, and says so when a question falls outside it.
“What does Usama actually do?” — Sprout: “He teaches AI and machine learning at Decoded, consults on AI systems, and publishes research — IEEE lead author. The CV has the full picture.”
How it's built: Growing Sprout
answers from my posts
Ask anything my posts cover. It answers only from those posts, and shows you which ones it used.
Every answer comes from the posts on /learning/, and links the ones it used.
“Why did you rebuild your site?” — the Writing Bed: “The old site ran a server around the clock to serve four static pages. The rebuild is static-first, with a brand built on helping people and products grow — from Rebuilding Usama's corner of the internet.”
Looking answers up instead of memorising them is called retrieval, or RAG.
How it's built: The Writing Bed
the research agent
Ask a research question. Scout picks where to look, reads what it finds, and links every source.
Scout searches the web on every question, so it's capped at 2 a day. Every answer links what it actually read.
“How do state-space models compare to transformers?” — Scout searches arXiv, reads the abstracts it finds, then answers from those papers and links every one it used.
A tool that chooses its own next step is called an agent.
How it's built: Scout
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