Welcome to the Pieces AI productivity podcast, where we dig into how experts use AI to be more productive, as well as geeking out in general on different AI topics.

🇮🇹 We start this episode with a quick Italian lesson, then dive into learning about how developers can be more productive with AI by using Toolhouse to provide all the plumbing and connections their apps need to run tools from AI in only 3 lines of code. Jim and Daniele also discuss the democratization of AI, and how the large US tech companies are focused on large profits, allowing smaller AI companies to lean heavily into the non-US markets and provide better, cheaper LLMs. They also discuss Groq, different models like DeepSeek, and some very interesting ideas for AI apps for first responders.

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Groq

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In this episode:

0:00:00 - A quick Italian lesson

0:00:22 - Intro to Daniele

0:01:05 - Intro to Toolhouse

0:05:24 - The complexities of building AI apps and shipping them to production

0:07:20 - Toolhouse Prompt Studio

0:10:08 - Groq, the Ferrari of LLM hardware makes streaming responses irrelevant

0:19:40 - Example Toolhouse apps - AI for first responders, custom newsletters

0:25:20 - AI is for everybody, not just the people who can afford the US costs

0:40:00 - There is a tech revolution coming so we don’t have countries without AI depending on those that do

0:41:20 - Productivity is a small part of AI

0:43:30 - Making AI growth sustainable

0:47:17 - Do the right thing, and the money will follow